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A meeting in honor of the Wolf Prize winners Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard

Date: 
Wed, 30/05/2018
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Location: 
Levin Hall, Edmond Safra Campus
  • 9:30-10:00 Breakfast and Coffee
  • 10:00-10:15 Greetings
    Barak Medina - Rector
    Hagai Netzer - Wolf foundation
    Michael Ben Or
  • 10:15-11:35 Plenary Session
    • 10:15-10:55 Charles Bennett
      "Occam’s razor, Boltzmann’s brain and Wigner’s friend: reconciling reversible dynamics with human experience"
    • 10:55-11:35 Gilles Brassard
      "All no-signaling theories are local-realistic"
  • 11:35-12:00 Coffee Break
  • 12:00-12:50 Session I
    • 12:00-12:25 Dorit Aharonov
      "Philosophical questions with computational answers"
    • 12:25-12:50 Yaron Silberberg
      "Quantum Microscopy"
  • 12:50-13:50 Lunch
  • 13:50-14:40 Session II
    • 13:50-14:15 John Smolin
      "The Early Days of Quantum Cryptography"
    • 14:15-14:40 Eleni Diamanti
      "Towards Quantum Cryptography for All"
  • 14:40-15:10 Coffee Break
  • 15:10-16:00 Session III
    • 15:10-15:35 Scott Aaronson
      "Certified Randomness from Quantum Supremacy"
    • 15:35-16:00 John Howell
      "Spooky Action in High Dimensions"
  • 16:00 Farewell

For more details quantum.huji.ac.il/BB2018

For registration please click here