[science-ts] SMR1738

[Winter College on Quantum and Classical Aspects of Information Optics, 30 January / 10 February 2006]

Winter College on Quantum and Classical Aspects of Information Optics

Organizer(s): Directors: M. Calvo, P. Knight and P. Tombesi; G. Denardo 
(ICTP Local Organizer)

Trieste - Italy, 30 January 2006 - 10 February 2006

Programme

MONDAY, 30 January (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
30 January 2006
08:30 - 09:30 (Room: Main Building, Lobby)
--- REGISTRATION ---
09:30 - 10:00 Opening
10:00 - 11:00 P. Knight / Imperial College London, UK
Plenary Lecture
"Classical and Quantum Imaging"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 A. Friberg / Royal Institute of Optics, Stockholm, Sweden
Optical Coherence: The Classical Insight
"Foundations and Background"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 15:30 A. Friberg / Royal Institute of Optics, Stockholm, Sweden
Optical Coherence: The Classical Insight
"Polarization of EM Fields"
15:30 - 16:30 M. Bastiaans / Eindhoven University of Technology, The 
Netherlands
Representation of Signals in a Combined Domain
"Linear Signal Dependence"
16:30 - 16:45 --- Coffee Break ---
16:45 - 17:45 Introduction to the ICTP Computer System and Organization 
of LAMP Seminars

TUESDAY, 31 January (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
31 January 2006
09:00 - 10:00 M. Bastiaans / Eindhoven University of Technology, The 
Netherlands
Representation of Signals in a Combined Domain
"Bilinear Signal Dependence"
10:00 - 11:00 A. Friberg / Royal Institute of Optics, Stockholm, Sweden
Optical Coherence: The Classical Insight
"Electromagnetic Coherence"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 M. Bastiaans / Eindhoven University of Technology, The 
Netherlands
Representation of Signals in a Combined Domain
"Relatives of the Wigner Distribution"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 15:30 T. Alieva / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Optical Integral Transforms for Information Processing
"From Geometric Optics to Wave Optics"
15:30 - 16:30 T. Alieva / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Optical Integral Transforms for Information Processing
"Optical Integral Transforms: Basic Properties and Optical Schemes"

WEDNESDAY, 1 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
1 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 M. Padgett / University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Angular Momentum Properties of Light Beams
"The Origin of Light's Angular Momentum"
10:00 - 11:00 T. Alieva / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Optical Integral Transforms for Information Processing
"Applications for Information Processing"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 M. Padgett / University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Angular Momentum Properties of Light Beams
"Spin and Orbital Angular Momentum, their Similarities and Differences"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 15:30 M. Padgett / University of Glasgow, Scotland, U.K.
Angular Momentum Properties of Light Beams
"Optical Vortices, the Generic State of Light"
15:30 - 16:30 ICO-ICSU Celebration
16:30 - 17:00 --- Coffee Break ---
17:00 - 18:00 ICO/ICTP Prize Award and Seminar
18:00 - 21:00 --- ICO Reception ---

THURSDAY, 2 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
2 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 J.C. Gutierrez-Vega / Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Characterization of Classical Optical Beams & Related
"Ince-Gaussian Modes of the Paraxial Wave Equation and LaserResonators"
10:00 - 11:00 J.C. Gutierrez-Vega / Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Characterization of Classical Optical Beams & Related
"Propagation Properties of Nondiffracting Beams"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 J.C. Gutierrez-Vega / Tecnológico de Monterrey, Mexico
Characterization of Classical Optical Beams & Related
"Scalar and Vector Helmholtz-Gauss Beams"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 16:30 LAMP Seminars

FRIDAY, 3 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
3 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 M.L. Calvo / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Fundamentals of Holographic Data Storage: Diffraction of Light by 
Volume Holographic Gratings
"The Physical Principles"
10:00 - 11:00 M.L. Calvo / Complutense University of Madrid, Spain
Fundamentals of Holographic Data Storage: Diffraction of Light by 
Volume Holographic Gratings
"Optical Media and Holographic Techniques"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 P. Cheben / National Research Council of Canada
Photonics for Information Technologies: Materials, Devices, and 
Applications
"Fundamentals and Background"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 15:30 P. Cheben / National Research Council of Canada
Photonics for Information Technologies: Materials, Devices, and 
Applications
"Modern Photonics. Telecom and Beyond"
15:30 - 16:30 P. Cheben / National Research Council of Canada
Photonics for Information Technologies: Materials, Devices, and 
Applications
"Advanced Devices and Future Trends"

MONDAY, 6 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
6 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 P. Tombesi / University of Camerino, Italy
"Introduction to Quantum Optics, Coherent and Squeezed States"
10:00 - 11:00 P. Tombesi / University of Camerino, Italy
"Density Operator and Master Equation"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 V. Buzek / Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 
Slovakia
"Optimal Quantum-State Estimations"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 15:30 V. Buzek / Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 
Slovakia
"Optimal Manipulations with Quantum Information"
15:30 - 16:30 I. Cirac / Max-Planck-Institut für Quanten Optik, 
Garching, Germany
"Quantum Repeaters"


TUESDAY, 7 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
7 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 I. Cirac / Max-Planck-Institut für Quanten Optik, 
Garching, Germany
"Quantum Computing"
10:00 - 11:00 F. De Martini / Università La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
"Realization of a Decoherence-Free Mesoscopic QuantumSuperposition"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 J. Rarity / Bristol University, U.K.
"Introduction to Photonic Quantum Information"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 15:30 J. Rarity / Bristol University, U.K.
"Quantum Cryptography, Free Space Experiments"
15:30 - 16:30 V. Buzek / Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, 
Slovakia
"Dynamics of Open Systems from a Perspective of Quantum Information"

WEDNESDAY, 8 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
8 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 J. Rarity / Bristol University, U.K.
"Introduction to Multi-Photon Quantum Logic"
10:00 - 11:00 P. Kumar / Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 
U.S.A.
"Optical Communication and Its Quantum Limits"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 P. Kumar / Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 
U.S.A.
"Communication Channels"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 16:30 LAMP Seminars

THURSDAY, 9 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
9 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 P. Knight / Imperial College London, U.K.
"Bits and Qubits: an Introduction to Quantum Information 1"
10:00 - 11:00 P. Kumar / Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 
U.S.A.
"Fiber-Optic Quantum Communication and Applications"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 P. Knight / Imperial College London, U.K.
"Bits and Qubits: an Introduction to Quantum Information 2"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 16:30 LAMP Seminars

FRIDAY, 10 February (Room:Main Building Lecture Hall)
10 February 2006
09:00 - 10:00 P. Tombesi / University of Camerino, Italy
"The Wigner Representation"
10:00 - 11:00 L. Yaroslavsky / University of Tel-Aviv, Israel
"Recent Results on Digital Processing of Information and Digital 
Holography"
11:00 - 11:30 --- Coffee Break ---
11:30 - 12:30 P. Knight / Imperial College London, U.K.
Lecture and Concluding Remarks
"Quantum Optical Realizations of Qubits"
12:30 - 14:30 --- Lunch ---
14:30 - 16:30 LAMP Seminars


Nadia  van Buuren
Winter College on Quantum and Classical Aspects of Information Optics
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics
Strada Costiera 11, I-34014 Trieste, Italy
Ph.: +39-040-2240363		Fax: +39-040-2240304
E-mail: smr1738 at ictp.it	http://agenda.ictp.it/smr.php?1738
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