Workshop at IQI RWTH Aachen University on quantum information theory, from Thursday July 10 – Saturday July 12 2025. Location:
Forum M Veranstaltungsforum
Buchkremerstraße 1-7
52062 Aachen
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Accommodation:
- Aquis Grana Cityhotel
- Cityhotel Kaiser Karl Aachen
If you have not signed up for the workshop yet but would like to attend, please get in contact with Anamarija Dronjic <dronjic@physik.rwth-aachen.de>, cc’ing Mario Berta <berta@physik.rwth-aachen.de>.
Schedule:
Thursday
08:30 – 09:00 coffee & welcome
09:00 – 09:25 David Gross (University of Cologne)
Title: Thirty-six officers, artisanally entangled
09:25 – 09:50 Omar Fawzi (ENS Lyon)
Title: Best of the measured relative entropy: Additivity, chain rules and Uhlmann
09:50 – 10:15 Hamza Fawzi (University of Cambridge)
10:15 – 10:45 coffee
10:45 – 11:10 Roberto Bondesan (Imperial College London)
11:10 – 11:35 Norbert Schuch (University of Vienna)
11:35 – 12:00 Daniel Stilck França (University of Copenhagen)
12:00 – 13:30 lunch & discussions & coffee
13:30 – 13:55 Simone Warzel (Technical University of Munich)
13:55 – 14:20 Angelo Lucia (Politecnico di Milano)
Title: Spectral gap estimates for quantum Markov semigroups
14:20 – 14:45 Andreas Bluhm (CNRS – Grenoble)
Title: Towards a complexity theory for non-local quantum computation
14:45 – 15:30 coffee
15:30 – 15:55 Ludovico Lami (SNS Pisa)
Title: Postselected hypothesis testing and an asymptotic spectrum problem
15:55 – 16:20 Bartosz Regula (RIKEN Tokyo)
Title: Umlaut information
16:45 – 17:10 Kun Fang (Chinese University of Hong Kong – Shenzhen)
Title: Surpassing the fundamental limits of distillation with catalysts
17:10 – 18:00 discussions
18:00+ individual dinner & drinks
Friday
08:30 – 09:00 coffee & welcome
09:00 – 09:25 Jens Eisert (Freie Universität Berlin)
09:25 – 09:50 Milan Mosonyi (Budapest University of Technology and Economics)
09:50 – 10:15 Robert König (Technical University of Munich)
10:15 – 10:45 coffee
10:45 – 11:10 Marco Tomamichel (NUS Singapore)
11:10 – 11:35 Hao-Chung Cheng (National Taiwan University)
Title: A sharp one-shot bound for quantum covering-type problems with relative entropy criterion
11:35 – 12:00 Ángela Capel (University of Cambridge)
Title: Quantum Markov chains and conditional independence of 1D Gibbs states
12:00 – 13:30 lunch & discussions & coffee
13:30 – 13:55 Michael Walter (Ruhr University Bochum)
13:55 – 14:20 Toby Cubitt (University College London)
14:20 – 14:45 Francesco Buscemi (Nagoya University)
Title: Towards a fully quantum version of Bayes’ rule
14:45 – 15:30 coffee
15:30 – 15:55 Felix Leditzky (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Improving quantum communication rates with permutation-invariant codes
15:55 – 16:20 Nilanjana Datta (University of Cambridge)
16:45 – 17:10 Cambyse Rouzé (Inria – Institut Polytechnique de Paris)
17:10 – 18:00 discussions
18:00+ individual dinner & drinks
Saturday
08:30 – 09:00 coffee & welcome
09:00 – 09:25 Philippe Faist (Freie Universität Berlin)
09:25 – 09:50 David Sutter (IBM Zurich)
Title: Uhlmann’s theorem for relative entropies
09:50 – 10:15 Ryuji Takagi (University of Tokyo)
Title: Black box work extraction and composite hypothesis testing
10:15 – 10:45 coffee
10:45 – 11:10 Christoph Hirche (University of Hanover)
11:10 – 11:35 Frédéric Dupuis (University of Montreal)
11:35 – 12:00 Xin Wang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology – Guangzhou)
12:00 – 13:00 discussions & goodbye
13:00 – 16:00 free time
16:00+ get together & celebrations
Address for get together & celebrations is (one minute walking distance from the conference location):
Mario Berta
Markt 48
52062 Aachen
North Rhine-Westphalia
Germany
Funding is provided by the European Research Council.