It won’t be exaggerating if I say that the International Iran Conference on Quantum Information(IICQI) was the most important scientific event, for quantum computer scientists in Iran, since last year!
Meeting Elham Kashefi, Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh, Vincent Danos, Simone Severini, Martin Plenio, Barry Sanders and Terry Rudolph; benefiting their new ideas and viewpoint about the horizons of the science, made the conference an ideal place to precise our visions. More importantly, staying in a same hotel with these outstanding scientists, made more opportunities to exchange ideas and being inform about their lifestyles.
However, I may note our consequential meeting with Dr. Elham Kashefi, the distinguished mathematician and computer scientist who developed an algebraic formalism for one-way quantum computation with her coauthors in their paper, The Measurement Calculus. We discussed some general topics like pattern designing and abstract languages and some others more specialistic like phase map decomposition and epistemic logic. Within a month we have to make our final decision, which topic do we prefer to work on.
Dr. Kashefi herself is a very lively person, always open to new people and new ideas. She is a combination of talent, sense of humor and hardworking. I never forget our friendly chat about Tehran’s crazy traffic! You would wonder if you could see her excited face, thinking about the traffic as a mathematical analysis problem! However, of course we have people the same as her in our group;)
For this month, our group will give some talks on quantum computing. The topics will probably be: “An introduction to quantum computing”, “Multipartite entanglement: A short tutorial” and “One-way quantum computation”. I’ll upload their abstracts and presentation files soon.
