1st North-South Quantum Information Meeting
29th-31st October 2008, Celtic Ross Hotel, Rosscarbery
Wednesday, 29.10.2008
09:50  Arrival at Cork Airport and Transfer to Celtic Ross Hotel
13:00  Lunch
14:20   Overview: North-South Network and Ultracold Quantum Gases Group UCC
Thomas Busch
14:45   Overview: Quantum Technologies Group QUB
Myungshik Kim
15:00   Overview: Quantum Optics Group UCC
Sile Nic Chormaic
15:15   Overview: Theoretical Quantum Optics Group QUB
Jim McCann
15:30  Measurement Based Quantum Computation with Photons
Mark Tame
16:00  Tea and Biscuits
16:30   Looking for Quantumness in Mesoscopic Systems
Mauro Paternostro
17:00   Single Atoms in Microtraps
Brian O'Sullivan
17:30   An Idea for Addressing Single Atoms in an Optical Lattice
Tara Hennessy
17:45   Quantum Control of Atoms with Intense Lasers: High Harmonic Generation
Geraldine McKenna
18:00   Effect of Open System Dynamics on MEMS
Steven Campbell
19:00  Dinner
Thursday, 30.10.2008
08:00  Breakfast
09:00   Entanglement in 1D Quantum Gases
John Goold
09:30  Control-limited Perfect State Transfer, Quantum Stochastic Resonance and
           Many Body Entangling Gate in Imperfect Qubit Registers
Carlo di Franco
10:00   Laser Cooling of Gallium
Lauren Rutherford
10:30  Coffee and Biscuits
11:00   Atom-Photon Interactions using Ultrathin Fibres
Kieran Deasy
11:30   Theory on Resonance Fluorescence of Atoms near a Surface
Danny Gleeson
12:00   Tapered optical fibre as a tool for probing MOT characteristics
Michael Morrisey
13:00  Lunch
15:00  Soccer Match
19:00  Dinner
Friday, 31.10.2008
08:00  Breakfast
09:00  Optical Tuning of Microcavity Resonances around the Rb D2 line
Johnathan Ward
09:30   Microcavities and Optical Resonances
Yuqiang Wu
10:00  Singlet-state extraction from non-interacting high-dimensional spins
Francesco Ciccarello
10:30  Coffee and Biscuits
11:00   Comlementary Relations for Continuous Variable Systems in Terms of
           Covariance Matrix Elements
Sean Springer
11:30  Quantisation of surface plasmon polaritons
Daniel Berman
12:00  Quantum Computing with ultracold vortices?
Suzanne McEndoo
12:30  Secrets within the noise: quantum encryption for real-world networks
Paul Townsend
13:30  Lunch
14:30  Transfer back to Cork
18:30  Flights back to Belfast


List of Participants
Berman, Daniel (QUB)
Busch, Thomas (UCC)
Campbell, Steven (QUB)
Ciccarello, Francesco (c/o QUB)
Deasy, Kieran(CIT)
Frawley, Mary (UCC)
di Franco, Carlo (QUB)
Gleeson, Danny (UCC)
Goold, John (UCC)
Hennessy, Tara (UCC)
Kim, Myungshik (QUB)
McCann, Jim (QUB)
McEndoo, Suzanne (UCC)
McKenna, Geraldine (QUB)
Morrissey, Michael (CIT)
Nic Chormaic, Sile (UCC)
O'Sullivan, Brian (UCC)
Paternostro, Mauro (QUB)
Russell,Laura (UCC)
Rutherford, Lauren (QUB)
Springer, Sean (QUB)
Tame, Mark (QUB)
Ward, Jonathan (CIT)
Watkins, Amy (UCC)
Wu, Yuqiang (UCC)

Financial Support