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1 Programme Thursday, January 6, :00 10:00 Registration 10:00 10:30 Inauguration 10:30 11:00 Tea/Coffee Chair: R. Penrose 11:00 11:50 A. J. Leggett Testing quantum mechanics towards the level of everyday life: recent progress and current prospects 11:50 12:35 H. Rauch Coherence and decoherence in neutron particle optics 12:35 13:20 G. S. Agarwal Quantum Interferometry of Independent Systems 13:20 14:30 Lunch Chair: A. Ekert 14:30 15:15 G. Brassard Quantum Pseudotelepathy 15:15 16:00 R. Simon Operator-sum Representation for Bosonic Gaussian Channels Tea/Coffee Chair: G. S. Agarwal V. Scarani Information causality as a new physical principle 17:10 17:40 G. Brennen Nonlocality with anyons

2 Friday, January 7, 2011 Chair: G. Brassard 09:30 10:20 A. Aspect From Einstein s intuition to Bell s inequalities and quantum bits: a new quantum age? 10:20 11:00 Anil Kumar Recent developments in Quantum Information Processing by NMR 11:00 11:30 Tea/Coffee Chair: A. J. Leggett 11:30 12:20 R. Penrose Twistors, Cohomology, and Quantum Non-Locality 12:20 12:50 S. Bose Quantum Entanglement and Indistinguishaibility: How can one aid in probing/generating the other 12:50 13:15 Arvind Extremal entanglement witnesses and bound entangled states Lunch Chair: A. Aspect 14:30 15:20 C. H. Bennett Quantum information, the ambiguity of the past, and the complexity of the present 15:20 16:05 S. M. Roy Uncertainty Principle, Position-Momentum Symmetric Causal Quantum Mechanics and Experimental Tests 16:05 16:30 U. Sinha Born Rule(s) 16:30 16:50 Tea/Coffee 16:30 18:30 POSTER SESSION 18:30 19:30 Film Show Rabindranath Tagore Director by Satyajit Ray 19:30 21:30 CONFERENCE BANQUET CII Lawns

3 Saturday, January 8, 2011 Chair: C. H. Bennett 09:30 10:20 A. Ekert Entangled with security 10:20 10:55 Y. Hasegawa Quantum contextuality and uncertainty relation explored with neutrons 10:55 11:20 J. Tollaksen Weak measurements and time-symmetry in quantum mechanics 11:20 11:50 Tea/Coffee Chair: Anil Kumar 11:50 12:30 L. A. Wu Two-Photon Imaging with Entangled and Thermal Light 12:30 13:00 A. Matzkin Entanglement in the classical limit: quantum correlations from classical probabilities 13:00 14:30 Lunch Chair: R. Simon 14:30 15:15 N. Mukunda Quantum Optical Nonclassicality for Single Mode Radiation Fields and conversion to Entanglement 15:15 15:50 C. S. Unnikrishnan Quantum Mechanics of Spatially Separated Systems: Insights, Conflicts and New Results 15:50 16:15 J. Corbett The quantum spatial continuum is not classical 16:15 16:40 Tea/Coffee Chair: N. D. Hari Dass 16:40 17:00 D. Home Generalized uncertainty relation as a tool for measuring mixedness of two qubit states 17:00 17:20 A. S. Majumdar Single particle entanglement as resource for information processing 17:40 Buses depart for Calcutta Club 19:00 21:30 Rabindranath Tagore: Symbol of Light, Spirit and Harmony -- CULTURAL PROGRAMME FOLLOWED BY DINNER AT THE CALCUTTA CLUB

4 Sunday, Junuary 9, 2011 Chair: S. Chaturvedi 09:30 10:20 S. Braunstein Entangled black holes as ciphers of hidden information 10:20 10:50 A. K. Pati Quantum States, Entanglement and Closed Timelike Curves 10:50 11:15 S. Ghosh Quantum to classical transition and entanglement sudden death in Gaussian states under local heat bath dynamics 11:15 11:35 Tea/Coffee Chair: H. Rauch 11:35 12:20 P. Mataloni Using hyperentanglement in quantum information 12:20 12:50 D. Goswami Towards Using Molecular States as Qubits 12:50 13:15 T. S. Mahesh Nuclear Singlets as Quantum Testbeds 13:15 14:30 Lunch Chair: S. M. Roy 14:30 15:15 N. D. Hari Dass Experimental Tests for a Pragmatic Interpretation of Protective Measurements 15:15 16:00 S. Chaturvedi Non classicality and entanglement in multimode radiation fields under the action of classicality preserving systems 16:00 16:20 R. Nair Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? Informational interpretations of quantum mechanics 16:20 16:45 Tea/Coffee Chair: A. Sudbery 16:45 17:15 P. Panigrahi Sub-Planck structures in phase-space of kitten and cat states: Application to quantum metrology 17:15 18:00 J. Gruska The role entanglement plays in a new perception of Informatics

5 Monday, January 10, 2011 Chair: S. Braunstein 09:30 10:20 A. Sudbery Philosophical lessons of entanglement 10:20 10:55 K. Modi A Unified View of Quantum and Classical Correlations and Potential Applications 10:55 11:25 I. Bose Quantum Discord in the Ground and Thermal States of Molecular Magnets 11:25 11:45 Tea/Coffee Chair: N. Mukunda 11:45 12:15 P. Joag Geometric measure of quantum discord for an arbitrary state of a bipartite quantum system 12:15 12: 45 A. Patel Efficient energy transfer in photosynthesis: Roles of coherence and entanglement 12:45 13:20 F. Piacentini Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: recent developments at INRIM 13:20 14:30 Lunch Chair: P. Mataloni 14:30 15:05 V. Korepin Measure of Entanglement in Spin Chains 15:05 15:35 R. Shankar Manipulating Majorana fermions for quantum computation 15:35 16:05 A. Lakshminarayan Entanglement transitions in random states 16:05 16:30 Tea/Coffee Chair: J. Gruska 16:30 17:00 D. Angelakis Photonic Quantum Simulators: Mimicking Condensed Matter Physics using Photons M. Kucherov NMR modeling of hyperdeterminants 17:25 17:30 CLOSING REMARKS

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