This is a partial list and leaves out some blackboard and/or local talks.
- Quantum Monte Carlo vs tunneling in adiabatic optimization
(1601.03030)
[pdf,
pptx]
Simons Institute, 4
May 2015; Maryland workshop, 2 Oct, 2015; AQC 27 June, 2016; MSR 15 July, 2016.
- Convex Optimization and Quantum Information: Hierarchies vs
Nets
(1509.05065)
[pdf,
pptx]
[another version pdf,
pptx]
CWI, 5 Jan 2015; Banff workshop, 24 Feb, 2015; Cambridge, Apr 20, 2015.
QuiCS QMA(2)
workshop, 1 Aug, 2016.
- Quantum Shannon Theory
[pdf,
pptx]
Tutorial at QIP 2016.
- Sample optimal tomography of quantum states
(1508.01797)
[pdf,
pptx]
Stanford, 26 Aug, 2015. QIPC, 28 Sep 2015.
- Sparse Quantum Codes from Quantum Circuits
(1411.3334)
[pdf,
pptx]
University College London, 9 Oct, 2014;
Cambridge University, 23 Oct, 2014; Oxford, Nov 3, 2014;
Coogee workshop, 23 Jan, 2015; U. Copenhagen, 7 Jan, 2015.
- Quantum information and the monogamy of entanglement
[pdf,
pptx]
NUS CQT Annual
Symposium, 8 Dec, 2014;
ColLoQuI, Imperial College London, Nov 5, 2014.
- A counter-example for the graph area law conjecture
(1410.0951)
[pdf,
pptx]
Seefeld
workshop on Quantum Information, 1 July, 2014; Bristol, 15 Oct, 2014; AQIS, 22 Aug, 2014;
FOCS, 19 Oct, 2014.
Brunel, 19 Nov, 2014.
- Convex optimization and quantum information
[pdf,
pptx]
Simons Institute, 25 Sep 2014.
- SDP hierarchies and quantum states
[pdf,
pptx]
Simons
Institute, 17 Jan 2014.
- Product-state approximations for quantum ground states
(1310.0017)
[pdf, pptx]
MIT, 1 Nov 2013; SUNY Stony Brook, 22 Nov 2013. Dresden MPI-PKS
workshop, 5 June, 2015.
- Separable states, unique games and monogamy
(1205.4484)
[pdf, pptx] and
[pdf,
pptx]
TQC,
22 May 2013;
Newton
Institute, 2 Sep 2013;
Simons
Institute, 16 Jan 2014; IAS, 27 Jan 2014.
- Monogamy of entanglement, and other commandments of
quantum information [pdf, ppt]
Brown SUMS, 9 Mar 2013.
- Quantum de Finetti Theorems under Local Measurements with
Applications
(1210.6367)
Berkeley, 17 Oct 2012 [pdf, ppt];
QIP,
Beijing, 22 Jan 2013 [pdf, ppt]
;
STOC,
Stanford, 4 June 2013 [pdf, ppt];
ICMAT,
11 July 2013 ;
Simons
Institute, 27 Feb 2014 [pdf,
ppt]
- High-degree graphs cannot be used for a quantum PCP
[pdf, ppt]
Berkeley, 15 Oct 2012; UW, 4 Dec 2012; Cambridge, 26 Mar 2013;
Michigan, 12 Apr 2013;
STOC, Stanford, 4 June 2013.
- Computing with adversarial noise
[ppt, pdf]
UIUC, 1 Oct 2012; Santa Fe Institute, 10 Oct 2012.
- Efficient distributed quantum computing
(1207.2307)
MSR Redmond, 5 Oct 2012.
- Permutations are approximately orthogonal
[pdf]
Hannover, 16 Sep, 2011;
CIRM
workshop, 13 Jan 2012; Waterloo, 10 Apr 2012; Seefeld Q. Info. Workshop, 5 July 2012; Cambridge, 14 July 2012
- Separable states and their application to computer
science
(1205.4484)
UW, 5 June 2012; ETHZ, 29 June, 2012; UCL, 12 July, 2012.
- Random quantum circuits are approximate
poly-designs (1208.0692)
Dagstuhl, 21 Sep 2011.
- Injective Tensor Norms: Hardness and Reductions
[video]
MSR Redmond, 28 Apr 2011 ; MSR New England, 10 Aug 2011.
- Detecting pure entanglement is easy, so detecting mixed
entanglement is hard (1001.0017) [pdf]
PI workshop, 6 July, 2010; UW CSE theory seminar, 12 Oct, 2010; FOCS, 26
Oct, 2010; LANL, 28 Oct, 2010; Waterloo IQC, 9 Apr, 2012.
- The power of quantum sampling
[pdf v1, pdf v2]
Waterloo, 9 Feb, 2010;
NEC, 25 March, 2010;
UNM, 27 Oct, 2010;
UW, 3 Feb, 2011.
- Quantum algorithms for testing probability distributions
(0907.3920)
[pdf]
STACS, 4 Mar 2010.
- A quantum algorithm for solving linear systems of equations
(0811.3171)
[pdf]
PI seminar, 4 May 2009;
KITP seminar,
21 Oct 2009;
MIT, 23 Nov 2009;
QIP, 21 Jan 2010;
Bristol CS, 18 Feb 2010;
APS March Meeting, 15 Mar 2010;
Princeton, 29 Mar 2010;
Rutgers, 9 Apr 2010;
Heilbronn
conference, 18 May 2010;
UW, 20 May 2010;
ILAS, 25 June
2010;
- Entanglement spread and clean resource inequalities
(0909.1557)
[pdf]
MIT 'XQIT' conference,
19 November 2008; Waterloo IQC group meeting, 5 May 2009;
ICMP'09, 6 Aug 2009;
PI seminar, 8 Feb 2010;
Princeton, 22 Apr 2010; Imperial
College, 5 Aug 2010.
- Quantum pseudo-randomness
[.pdf]
LANL 'CQIT' conference,
26 March 2008;
Caltech, 3 April 2008;
PI conference, 28 April 2008;
CIFAR meeting, 4 June 2008; Cambridge, 24 June 2008;
Tohoku workshop, 7 November 2008.
- Quantum expanders from any classical Cayley graph
expander
(0709.1142)
[.pdf]
QIP, New Delhi, 20 December
2007; CWI, 22 February 2008.
- Group representations and quantum information
[.pdf]
NII, Tokyo, 5 February 2007; UKZN, Durban, 2 April 2007.
- Superpolynomial speedup from almost any circuit
(0805.0007)
[.ppt]
local Bristol seminar, 11 October 2006;
IBM, Yorktown Heights, NY, 5 January 2007;
Caltech IQI seminar, 23 January 2007;
QIP, Brisbane, 30 January 2007; Waterloo Randomization workshop, 27 June 2007.
ICALP, 10 July 2008.
- Forget this talk: Erasing correlations and undoing
entanglement
[quant-ph/0511219]
Short talk at QIP conference in Paris, Jan 2006
[ppt, pdf]
Long talk at IHP workshop in Paris, Mar 2006
[ppt]
IBM, 26 May 2006; Waterloo, 31 July 2006; Oxford, 8 Dec 2006.
-
Applications of coherent classical communication and Schur duality
to quantum information theory - dissertation defense, June 28, 2005
(quant-ph/0512255)
[.ppt]
-
A Family of Quantum Protocols [quant-ph/0308044]
Group meeting, Oct 2004 [.ppt]
Short talk at IEEE Symposium on Information Theory in Chicago, July 2004 [.ppt]
- Efficient quantum circuits for Clebsch-Gordan and Schur
duality transforms [quant-ph/0407082]
Talk at QIP conference at MIT, Jan 2005
[.ppt]
Talk at Newton Institute, Nov 2004
[.ppt]
Talk at Perimeter Institute, Oct 2004
[.ppt]
Medium-short talk at SQUINT meeting in UCSD, Feb 2004
[.ppt]
- Coherent communication of classical messages
[quant-ph/0307091]
Talk at Caltech IQI, Feb 2004
[.ppt]
Short talk at QIP in Waterloo, Jan 2004
[.ppt]
Very short talk at ARO program review in Nashville, Aug 2003
[.ppt]
Talk at Tokyo ERATO office, July 2003
[.ppt]
- A tight lower bound on the communication cost of entanglement
dilution
[quant-ph/0204096]
Short talk at IEEE Symposium on Information Theory in Yokohama,
July 2003
[.dvi]
- Gentle tomography and universal data compression
[quant-ph/0403078]
Talk at Caltech IQI, Jan 2003
[.ppt]
- Classical capacity of bidirectional channels
[quant-ph/0205057]
Short talk at AMS section meeting at Northeastern, Oct 2002
[.ppt]
-
Gate robustness: how much noise will ruin a unitary gate?
[quant-ph/0301108]
Short talk at MSRI QIP, Dec 2002 [.ppt]
-
Communication capacities of nonlocal gates and Hamiltonians
[quant-ph/0205057]
poster at IBM Yorktown QIP, Jan 2002
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poster at UCSB ITP Conference on Quantum Information, Dec 2001
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