Prospective Attendees List

First Name	Last Name	ORG	Email	Capability Statement
Phil	Battle	AdvR, Inc.	battle@advr-inc.com	AdvR develops packaged waveguide and bulk engineered nonlinear optical materials suitable for a range of applications including quasi phase matched (QPM) frequency conversion, modulation, wavelength control and beam steering. Available substrates include hydrothermal and flux grown KTP, doped and non-doped SLT and Mg(5%):LN
Philip	Johnson	American University	pjohnson@american.ed...	Neutral atom qubit theory (previously postdoc at NIST, Gaithersburg) and superconducting qubit theory (postdoc and grad student at Univ. of MD), now Asst. Prof at American University working in both areas.
Jonathan	Habif	BBN Technologies	jhabif@bbn.com
Thomas	Ohki	BBN Technologies	tohki@bbn.com	BBN Technologies is an advanced research and development firm headquartered in Cambridge, MA. BBN offers engineering solutions to build prototype systems integrating experimental technology with standard high-performance systems. We have expertise in several areas of quantum information, including superconducting quantum computing and quantum optics. We fielded the world’s first QKD network, and maintain classical and quantum superconducting test laboratories with a 10 mK dilution refrigerator and two 2 K cryo-coolers. BBN has extensive experience leading large, multi-disciplinary academic and industrial teams.
Kennneth	Kress	Booz Allen	kenneth.a.kress@ugov...	Multi year consulting in the field of quantum information science
Philippe	Grangier	CNRS / Institut d'Optique	philippe.grangier@in...	Quantum optics experiments, quantum computing with neutral atoms.
Gene	Dantsker	D-Wave	gene.dantsker@gmail....
Geordie	Rose	D-Wave Systems Inc.	rose@dwavesys.com	Fabrication of superconducting integrated circuits
Bob	Anderson	Dept. of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland	banders@umd.edu	I am carrying out research with colleagues on the use of superconducting systems for quantum computing.
Michael	Chapman	Georgia Tech	mc191@mail.gatech.ed...	Trapped neutral atoms, trapped ions, quantum optics, cavity QED
Daniel	Youngner	Honeywell	Dan.Youngner@honeywe...	Honeywell’s R&D group in Plymouth Minnesota has considerable experience working with research groups from academia and from the various government labs. As theorists at those various institutions begin developing notions for how to define high-M basis states for binary qubits and for the controls that cause those qubits to evolve coherently from one basis state to another, Honeywell has the ability to work with those theorists to help realize their vision on the MEMS-scale.
Mark	Heiligman	IARPA	mark.i.heiligman@ugo...
Mark	Ketchen	IBM Research	mketchen@us.ibm.com	Our experimental quantum computing group at IBM Research has full design, fabrication, and characterization capabilities for superconducting resonators, phase qubits, and flux qubits. We also have a strong theoretical quantum computing group that works closely with the experimental team.
Nancy	Stoffel	Infotonics Technology Center	Nancy.Stoffel@ITCMEM...	ITC combines experience and expertise with excellence in producing prototype and low volume MEMS solutions. What sets us apart is our vertically integrated approach to design, engineering, scalable fabrication, packaging and testing. We offer a large array of world-class MEMS-related services, all under one roof. Located outside Rochester, NY, the 140,000 square foot, state-of-the-art ITC facility includes over 50,000 square feet of certified clean room space running 150mm wafers, complemented by a dedicated 8,000 square foot MEMS and optoelectronic packaging facility.
Philip	Walther	Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI), Austrian Academy of Sciences	philip.walther@univi...	Experimental quantum optics and quantum information processing, Linear optical quantum computing, Long-distance quantum communication Single-photon sources (SPDC)
Marco	Lanzagorta	ITT Corporation	marco.lanzagorta@itt...	ITT Corporation performs research and development on sensing, communication, and electronic warfare systems. These technologies are also produced and manufactured by ITT, and they are currently deployed by DoD on a variety of weapons systems and platforms. ITT’s interests and capabilities in the area of Quantum Information (QI) include: the algebraic structure of QI, new mathematical representations of QI, analysis of QI devices in realistic environments, quantum sensors, quantum communications, quantum algorithmic theory, and quantum effects in biological environments. In particular, ITT’s major research thrust has been the analysis of the origin, structure, availability, feasibility and mathematical representation of those resources that are needed to perform QI processing in realistic environments.
Christopher	Monroe	Joint Quantum Institute and University of Maryland	monroe@umd.edu
Kevin	Hyer	L-3 Communications, CS-W	Kevin.L.Hyer@L-3Com....	CS-W specializes in digital and analog design of multi-GHz processing systems. All of our processing cores are software definable and thus can be reconfigured with simple firmware updates. Our systems utilize data planes with capacity to handle aggregate information exchange rates up to 100 Gbps.
Michael	Simon	Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company	michael.j.simon@lmco...
Keun	Lee	MagiQ Technologies	klee@magiqtech.com	High-speed digital and analog design, FPGA, and software for RF Pulse Programmers for multi-qubit operations.
Anton	Zavriyev	MagiQ Technologies	anton@magiqtech.com	MagiQ is experienced in amalgamating optical and electrical systems with supporting firmware/software. Our expertise include: Free space and fiber optics, non-linear optics, WCP and heralded photon-based QKD, entangled photon generation and distribution, single-photon detection, fiber interferometry, fiber stabilization, interferometer stabilization, RF arbitrary waveform generation.
Franco	Wong	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	franco@ncw2.mit.edu
Sae Woo	Nam	National Institute of Standards and Technology	nams@boulder.nist.go...	Fabrication, packaging, testing, and/or integration of a variety of high performance single photon detectors/counters (particularly those requiring cryogenic temperatures). We have experience in integrating new detector technologies in to quantum information/optics experiments and demonstrations (i.e. QKD, LOQC gates, non-gaussian state generation by photon number subtraction, etc) We are open to collaborating with anyone.
Wiliam	Phillips	National Institute of Standards and Technology	wphillip@nist.gov	Neutral atoms as qubits, held and manipulated in patterned and reconfigurable optical lattices; High fidelity single qubit operations and changes of qubit basis; interaction and entanglement of qubits in isolated pairs through contact and exchange interactions; interfacing of optical tweezer and lattice manipulation and storage; interaction between atoms in Rydberg states
Raymond	Simmonds	National Institute of Standards and Technology	simmonds@boulder.nis...	Researching Superconducting Qubits
Daniel	Gammon	Naval Research Lab	gammon@nrl.navy.mil	Semiconductor quantum dots for photonic-based quantum information
Mark	Bashkansky	Naval Research Laboratory	bashkansky@nrl.navy....	Experiments with warm and cold atoms, single photon detection, optical traps for cold atoms, starting internal program on quantum memory.
Thomas	Reinecke	Naval Research Laboratory	reinecke@nrl.navy.mi...	Theory of optically controlled quantum dots for quantum information, including quantum gates, dephasing, photonic based coupling and mulitqubit operations
Alan	Migdall	NIST	migdall@nist.gov	Single-photon and entanglement sources and detectors and metrology thereof.
Prem	Kumar	Northwestern University	kumarp@northwestern....	Telecom-band optical-fiber-generated entangled and indistinguishable photon pairs and chipscale device technologies for LOQC
Selim	Shahriar	Northwestern University	shahriar@northwester...	Quantum Computing with Trapped Neutral Atom Ensembles and Cavity QED
gregory	kanter	NuCrypt	kanterg@nucrypt.net	NuCrypt has experience building entangled photon sources and single photon detection systems designed specifically for entanglement measurements. Our expertise in electronics, control systems, and photonics can be leveraged to design and build robust, automated quantum measurement systems. Additionally, we have subsystems capable of high speed signal capture, processing, and generation.
Warren	Grice	Oak Ridge National Laboratory	gricew@ornl.gov	Quantum Optics, especially the modeling, design, and fabrication of entangled-photon sources.
David	Lucas	Oxford University	d.lucas@physics.ox.a...
Mark	Allen	Physical Sciences Inc.	allen@psicorp.com
David	Scherer	Physical Sciences Inc.	scherer@psicorp.com	Enabling technologies for multi-qubit coherent operations, including optical instrumentation such as compact, high-power, narrow linewidth laser sources and nonlinear optical materials for high spectral brightness entangled photon generation.
Constantin	Brif	Princeton University	cbrif@princeton.edu	I will represent a research team that also includes Prof. Ian Walmsley (Oxford), Prof. Herschel Rabitz (Princeton) and Dr. Robert Kosut (SC Solutions). The focus of our research is on optimal control of quantum information systems, including robust control of quantum gates and management of decoherence in multi-qubit systems. Our recent publications in this area include: M. P. A. Branderhorst, P. Londero, P. Wasylczyk, C. Brif, R. L. Kosut, H. Rabitz, and I. A. Walmsley, "Coherent Control of Decoherence," Science 320, 638-643 (2008); M. Grace, C. Brif, H. Rabitz, I. A. Walmsley, R. L. Kosut, and D. A. Lidar, "Optimal control of quantum gates and suppression of decoherence in a system of interacting two-level particles," Journal of Physics B 40, S103-S125 (2007); M. Grace, C. Brif, H. Rabitz, I. Walmsley, R. Kosut, and D. Lidar, "Encoding a qubit into multilevel subspaces," New Journal of Physics 8, 35 (2006). I would like to present our current research on "Robustness of optimally controlled unitary quantum gates". I personally work and publish in the field of quantum physics since 1994 and in the area of quantum information sciences since 1998.
Jason	Petta	Princeton University	petta@princeton.edu	Semiconductor spin qubits in GaAs and Si/SiGe.
Anthony	Novembre	Princeton University Institute for the Science and Technology of Materials	novembre@princeton.e...
Peter	Herskind	Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT	herskind@mit.edu	cryogenic microfabricated ion traps
Lara	Faoro	Rutgers University and CNRS Paris	faoro@physics.rutger...	Research on mechanisms of decoherence in superconducting nanocircuits (phenomenological models and microscopic origin of the noise)
Kevin	Obenland	SAIC	kevin.m.obenland@sai...	We are interested in the theoretical aspects of multi-qubit operations including the modeling and simulation of these systems to understand the impact of decoherence and inaccuracies on the fidelity of gates.
Jim	Hudgens	Sandia National Labs	jjhudge@sandia.gov	Micro Ion Trap Fabrication - Silicon based manufacture of surface traps utilizing our CMOS and MEMS fabrication facilities. - Fabrication of alumina and quartz based traps utilizing our MicroFab facilities - Monolithic integration of resistors and capacitors into silicon based surface traps - Arbitrary placement of through holes - Testing of ion traps to supply known-good traps (e.g. loading rate, heating rate, shuttling voltages) - Design and fabrication of diffractive and gray-scale UV otpics. - Hybrid integration of diffractive and fiber optics onto the ion trap. - Monolithic integration of optical surfaces onto ion traps Solid State Quantum Computation - Design and fabrication of silicon nanostructures for quantum dot and donor based approaches. - Design and fabrication of 3-D and air gap structures for capacitors and Josephson Junction based devices - Packaging of devices - Cryogenic CMOS - Modeling of structures utilizing high performance computing resources - Low temperature testing of devices - Design of classical electronic architectures to support quantum circuits. - Quantum architecture design - High mobility GaAs/AlGaAs MBE
Alan	Braun	Sarnoff	abraun@sarnoff.com	Enabling technologies including integrated cold atom systems for neutral atoms and ions: integrated miniature ultra-high-vacuum cells with vacuum compatible electrical feedthroughs and optical access, atom sources, traps, integrated optical elements, and stabilized laser systems. Design and fabrication of custom GaAs DFB and VCSEL lasers and optical subassemblies.
Sterling	McBride	Sarnoff Corporation	smcbride@sarnoff.com	Enabling technologies for multi-qubits coherent operations. Integrated cold atom systems for neutral atoms and ions: integrated miniature ultra-high-vacuum cells with vacuum compatible electrical feedthroughs and optical access, atom sources, traps, integrated optical elements, and stabilized laser systems. Design and fabrication of custom GaAs DFB lasers.
Ari	Mizel	Science Applications International Corporation	ari@arimizel.com	Theorists with experience in algorithms, decoherence, solid state (superconductor/semiconductor) qubits.
Vladimir	Malinovsky	Stevens Institute of Technology	vmalinov@stevens.edu
Thomas	Chapuran	Telcordia	tc@research.telcordi...	Since Telcordia's beginnings as part of Bell Labs, we've continually translated innovative thinking into tangible results. Our teams are driven by excellence in research coupled with creative, cost-effective and practical solutions to technical problems. Of particular relevance to the Multi-Qubit Coherent Operations program is Telcordia's extensive expertise in quantum information, optical technologies, active and passive optical components, guided-wave optical transmission, integrated optics, and optical systems architectures and integration.
Nick	Peters	Telcordia Technologies	nap@research.telcord...	Since Telcordia's beginnings as part of Bell Labs, we've continually translated innovative thinking into tangible results. Our teams are driven by excellence in research coupled with creative, cost-effective and practical solutions to technical problems. Of particular relevance to the Multi-Qubit Coherent Operations program is Telcordia's extensive expertise in quantum information, optical technologies, active and passive optical components, guided-wave optical transmission, integrated optics, and optical systems architectures and integration.
Philip	Hemmer	Texas A&M Univ	prhemmer@ece.tamu.ed...	Managed a DARPA QuIST program which led to the identification of NV diamond as a promising candidate for quantum information processing applications.
Philippe	Bado	Translume	pbado@translume.com	Translume has developed femtosecond laser-based direct-write processes to create sophisticated high-quality waveguided optical systems, including nested interferometers of various kinds. This direct-write maskless process is ideally suited for small to medium size application, such as quantum computing (in its present state). This unique fabrication processes are used to produce highly integrated, extremely robust, glass-based components and systems for use in industrial and military environments. Translume devices may incorporate straight and curved waveguides, splitters, couplers, interferometers, V-grooves and active elements such as delay lines. They can be interfaced with passive or active (doped) fibers. Some of our devices have been flight-tested; others have been successfully operated in the presence of high doses of ionizing radiation. We also have a real-time waveguide trimming capability for excting applications.
Olivier	Pfister	U. of Virginia	opfister@virginia.ed...	Multipartite entanglement in the optical frequency comb; continuous-variable quantum optics (squeezed and entangled states); precision measurements below the vacuum fluctuation limit.
Eli	Yablonovitch	UC Berkeley	eliy@eecs.berkeley.e...
Todd	Pittman	UMBC	todd.pittman@umbc.ed...	Optical approaches to quantum computing. Single photon qubits; sources, detectors, logic gates, memory, entangled photons.
Paul	Kwiat	Univ. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	kwiat@illinois.edu	Photon-based qubits, entanglement sources, high-efficiency detectors, adaptive optics, quantum algorithms, quantum state and process tomography, lindy hop :-)
Hartmut	Haeffner	University	hhaeffner@berkeley.e...	Manipulate quantum information stored in trapped Calcium ions
Jonathan	Matthews	University of Bristol	jonathan.matthews@br...	Photonic quantum information science and quantum technologies. Quantum logic circuits including integrated fibre and waveguide photonic devices.
Sankar	Das Sarma	University of Maryland	dassarma@physics.umd...
Christopher	Lobb	University of Maryland	lobb@squid.umd.edu
Jim	Franson	University of Maryland, Baltimore County	jfranson@umbc.edu	Research in quantum optics and quantum computing.
Duncan	Steel	University of Michigan	dst@eecs.umich.edu	Advanced Coherent Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy and Ultrafast Coherent Optical Control of Electron Spins in Self-Assembled Quantum Dots.
Andrew	White	University of Queensland	agx.white@gmail.com	Photonic quantum computing. Photon sources; photon detection; integrated photonics; quantum simulation.
Frederick	Strauch	Williams College	Frederick.W.Strauch@...	I am a theoretical physicist specializing in the design and study of superconducting qubits. The common focus of my work is to develop methods to efficiently and robustly store, transfer, and manipulate quantum information using simple, experimentally accessible control protocols. My previous work focused on simulations of quantum logic operations and multilevel effects in superconducting phase qubits. I am currently working on the design of multi-dimensional qubit networks for high-fidelity quantum state transfer in the presence of disorder and decoherence.