Columbians at QIP 2024
A recap from the Quantum Information Conference in Taipei.
In January, several Columbians made the 17+ hour trek from New York to Taipei to attend Quantum Information Processing (QIP) 2024. “QIP is the conference in theoretical quantum computing, which is quite selective,” said Henry Yuen, an associate professor of computer science at Columbia. Yuen’s group, which studies the interplay between quantum computing, complexity theory, cryptography, and information theory, had three papers highlighted at the conference, including two that were chosen for plenary talks:
Tony Metger, a student at ETH and collaborator with the Yuen group, gave the long plenary talk about the paper “Unitary Complexity and the Uhlmann Transformation Problem.”
John Bostanci, a Computer Science PhD student working with Yuen, gave a plenary talk about "Efficient quantum parallel repetition and its applications."
Shivam Nadimpalli, a Computer Science PhD working with professor Rocco Servedio, giving a talk about "On the Pauli Spectrum of QAC0." This project also included fellow PhD Natalie Parham from Columbia and Francisca Vasconcelos from the University of California Berkeley.
