DATE:	Sunday, January 22, 2006
TIME	EVENT/SPEAKER	TITLE/DETAILS
5.30-7.00pm	Reception

DATE:	Monday, January 23, 2006
TIME	EVENT/SPEAKER	TITLE/DETAILS
8.15-8.30am	Welcome
8.30-9.00	Philip Stamp (UBC)	Quantum nanoscience and the physics of decoherence
9.00-9.30	Michelle Simmons (UNSW)	The realization of atomically precise devices in silicon
9.30-10.00	Shoucheng Zhang (Stanford)	The spin Hall effect
10.00-10.30	Coffee
10.30-11.00	Ulrich Zuelicke (Massey)	Spin interferometry and entanglement generation with Rashba spin splitting
11.00-11.30	Andrea Morello (UBC)	Dynamics of the nuclear spin bath in molecular nanomagnets: a test for decoherence
11.30-12.00	Paolo Tombesi (Camerino)	Scheme For Entangling Micromeccanical Resonators By Entanglement Swapping
12.00-2.00pm	Lunch
2.00-2.30	Michael Roukes (Caltech)	Toward number state detection with nanoelectromechanical systems
2.30-3.00	Miles Blencowe (Dartmouth)	Quantum Electromechanical Systems: Selected Topics in Quantum Backaction and Damping
3.00-3.30	Keith Schwab (LPS, Maryland)	Cooper-Pair Molasses: Coolling a nanomechanical resonator with quantum backaction
3.30-4.00	Coffee
4.00-4.30	Guifre Vidal (UQ)	Entanglement renormalization
4.30-5.00	Fei Zhou (UBC)	Interacting Cold Atomic Matter
5.00-8.00	Swimming and dinner
8.00-10.00	Posters

DATE:	Tuesday, January 24, 2006
TIME	EVENT/SPEAKER	TITLE/DETAILS
8.30-9.00	Yasunobu Nakamura (NEC)	Coherence and decoherence in Josephson junction qubits
9.00-9.30	Gerd Schoen (Karlsruhe)	On decoherence in solid state qubits
9.30-10.00	Alexandre Blais (Sherbrooke)	Circuit QED with superconducting charge qubits
10.00-10.30	Coffee
10.30-11.00	John Martinis (UCSB)	High-Fidelity Measurements of Josephson Phase Qubits
11.00-11.30	Hideaki Takayanagi (NTT)	Readout of Flux Qubits
11.30-12.00	Hari Manoharan (Stanford)	Assembling Atoms, Spins, and Superpositions
12.00-2.00pm	Lunch
2.00-2.20	Andrew Ferguson (UNSW)	Microwave spectroscopy of the radio-frequency single Cooper pair transistor
2.20-2.40	John Fjaerestad (UQ)	Anomalous Excitation Spectra of Frustrated Quantum Antiferromagnets
2.40-3.00	Lloyd Hollenberg (Melbourne)	Qubit Transport in Solid State Architectures
3.00-3.20	Jason Twamley (Macquarie)	Perfect single qubit transmission, multi-qubit mirroring and universal computation in spin chains using homogenous control
3.20-3.50	Coffee
3.50-4.10	Karl Muller (CSIRO)	Quantum transport in organic molecules
4.10-4.30	Faye Hudson (UNSW)	Electrical transport and detection of charge states in nanoscale phosphorus-insilicon islands
4.30-4.50	Joel Gilmore (UQ)	Minimal models for Quantum Mechanics in Biology
4.50-5.10	David Tillbrook (CSIRO)	Progress towards the measurement of small-spin system using a nano-SQUID

DATE:	Wednesday, January 25, 2006
TIME	EVENT/SPEAKER	TITLE/DETAILS
8.00-8.30am	George Sawatzky (UBC)	New Quantum Materials via Interface Engineering
8.30-9.00	Masahiro Yamashita (Tohoku, CREST)	Nano-sciences of Advanced Metal Complexes: Single-Chain Quantum Magnets and Gigantic Optical Nonlinearity of Nano-Wire Metal Complexes
9.00-9.30	George Christou (Florida)	Single-molecule magnets and their supramolecular aggregates: A molecular approach to nanomagnetism
9.30-10.00	Paul Meredith (UQ)	Emergent Macroscopic Properties from Molecular Disorder in Functional Bio macromolecules
10.00-10.30	Coffee
10.30-11.00	Andrew Briggs (Oxford)	Nanotube quantum logic gate
11.00-11.30	Ross McKenzie (UQ)	Solid state realisation of Werner quantum states via two Kondo spins
11.30-12.00	Adam Micolich (UNSW)	Superconductivity in Metal-mixed Ion-implanted Polymer Films
12.00-2.00pm	Lunch
2.00-2.30	Yoseph Imry (Weizmann)	Quantum fluctuations and the Casimir effect
2.30-3.00	John Dobson (Griffith)	Long-ranged electronic correlations in nanostructures
3.00-3.30	Hsi-Sheng Goan (National Taiwan University)	Single spin detection and quantum state readout by magnetic resonance force microscopy
3.30-4.00	Coffee
4.00-4.30	Alex Hamilton (UNSW)	New results on spin-splitting in p-GaAs nanostructures
4.30-5.30	Panel Discussion
7.00-	Conference dinner

DATE:	Thursday, January 26, 2006
TIME	EVENT/SPEAKER	TITLE/DETAILS
8.00-8.30am	Stephen Prawer (Melbourne)	Diamond Based Quantum Information Processing
8.30-9.00	Tim Spiller (HP Bristol)	Quantum computation using a communication bus
9.00-9.30	Peter Zoller (Innsbruck)	Quantum information processing with polar molecules
9.30-10.00	Michael Nielsen (UQ)	Optical quantum computation using cluster states
10.00-10.30	Coffee
10.30-11.00	Boris Spivak (Washington)	Temperature dependence of electronic transport properties of mesoscopic conductors
11.00-11.30	Gabriel Aeppli (UCLondon)
11.30-12.00	Bob Clark (UNSW)	Single Atom Nanoelectronics For Silicon-Based Qubits
12.00-2.00pm	Close

Note there are a few related conferences that attendees may wish to stay on for:

• Statistical systems out of equilibrium: random systems and complex fluids: The First Australian-Italian Workshop on Statistical Physics
• 30th Annual Condensed Matter and Materials Meeting