15th meeting : Thursday 4 March 2004
- Attendees
- Sam Braunstein
- Iain Brown
- Lieven Clarisse
- David Emms
- Bill Freeman
- Liz Hill
- Joe Hilling
- Simon O'Keefe
- Fiona Polack
- Susan Stepney
- Tony Sudbery
- Richard Wilson
- Ahmed Younes
- Quantum projects: brief status reports
- LC : interesting progress on distillation
- SLB : relativistic quantum information : results in a "boosted" reference frame
- RW : looking at quantum random walks on graphs
- Liz Hill (Leeds): "Consciousness: pushing its way to the forefront of Quantum Mechanics"
- Does consciousness have a role in QM? Might QM explain consciousness?
- Phenomenological approach: separation of consciousness from object
- Everett's approach: is it the body or the consciousness that spilts?
- (lively discussion ensued)
- (TS): "Last month at the archive" -- what's new at
quant-ph
- (LC)
- Student project presentations
- Iain Brown : "Searching for maximal entanglement in multipartite quantum systems" : 9 slides (PDF 96K)
- (SGK) : "Using QUiDDs for QFT" : 20 slides (PDF 646K)
- The 16th meeting of the Quantum Computing SIG will be 20
April 2004