Daniel Gottesman

Address: Perimeter Institute, 31 Caroline Street North, Waterloo, ON N2L 2Y5, CANADA
Phone: (519) 569-7600x8581
Fax: (519) 569-7611
E-mail: dgottesman@perimeterinstitute.ca
Home Page: http://perimeterinstitute.ca/personal/dgottesman

Education and Work Experience (More Details)

• College: Harvard, B.A. 1992 (Summa Cum Laude, Physics)
• Graduate School: Caltech, Ph.D. 1997 (Physics)
  Advisor: John Preskill
• Sep. 1997 - June 1999: Director-Funded Postdoctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory (joint appointment to T-6/ CIC-3).
• June 1999 - Dec. 2000: Postdoc with Theory Group in Microsoft Research.
• Jan. 2001 - Aug. 2002: Long-Term Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellow and Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley EECS Department, Theory Group.
• Sep. 2002 - present: Research Scientist at Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario.

Selected Awards and Honors (Longer List)

• 17th on 1987 U.S.A. Math Olympiad
• National Merit Scholar
• Participant in 1987 U.S. Math Olympiad Program
• Member of 1988 Physics Olympiad Team
• Elected Junior Phi Beta Kappa at Harvard (1991)
• Awarded National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship (1992)
• Awarded Long-Term Clay Mathematics Institute Prize Fellowship (2000)
• Named to 2003 TR100: Top Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review (2003)
• Named as CIFAR Scholar in Quantum Information Processing program (2003), renewed 2007, promoted to Fellow 2008

Selected Conference Talks (Longer List)

• Plenary speaker at XXII International Colloquium on Group Theoretical Methods in Physics (Hobart, Australia, July 1998)
• Tutorial speaker at Quantum Information Processing 2000 Workshop (Montreal, Quebec, Dec. 1999)
• Invited speaker at AMS Short Course on Quantum Computation at AMS Annual Meeting (Washington DC, Jan. 2000)
• Invited speaker at Conference on Conventional and non Conventional Computing (Torino, Italy, June 2000)
• Invited speaker at EuroWorkshop on Quantum Computer Theory: in search of viable Optimal design (Torino, Italy, June 2001).
• Invited speaker at International Symposium on Quantum Computing - Nano Science & Technology for Implementation of Quantum Computers (Tokyo, Japan, March 2002).
• Tutorial speaker at Quantum Electronics and Laser Science Conference (Long Beach, California, May 2002).
• Invited speaker at KIAS-APCTP Workshop on Quantum Information (Seoul, Korea, June 2002).
• Invited lecturer at Summer School on Quantum Information Processing (Montreal, Quebec, July 2002).
• Plenary speaker at Conference on Number Theory and Combinatorics in Physics (Gainesville, Florida, March 2003).
• Invited speaker at Fields Institute Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control (Toronto, Ontario, July 2004)
• Invited speaker at Newton Institute focus week on quantum gravity and quantum information (Cambridge, UK, December 2004).
• Invited speaker at NATO Advanced Study Institute in Quantum Computation and Quantum Information (Chania, Greece, May 2005).
• Invited speaker at The Fifth Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information (Montreal, Quebec, August 2005).
• Invited speaker at Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters Symposium on Quantum Information (Copenhagen, Denmark, November 2005).
• Lecturer at Institut Henri Poincare program on Quantum Information, Computation and Complexity (Paris, France, January-April 2006).
• Invited speaker at 2006 Quantum Information Science Gordon Research Conference (Barga, Italy, May 2006).
• Invited speaker at 7th European QIPC Workshop (London, UK, October 2006).
• Tutorial speaker at APS March Meeting (Denver, Colorado, March 2007).
• Plenary speaker at 35th Canadian Operator Symposium (Guelph, Ontario, June 2007).
• Invited speaker at QIPC 2007 International Conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication (Barcelona, Spain, October 2007).
• Invited speaker at Ninth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (Calgary, Alberta, August 2008).
• Invited speaker at 2008 Quantum Information Science Gordon Research Conference (Big Sky, Montana, September 2008).
• Invited speaker at xQIT Conference on Difficult Problems in Quantum Information Theory (Cambridge, Massachusetts, November 2008).
• Invited speaker at Short Course on Quantum Information at 2009 AMS Annual Meeting (Washington, DC, January 2009).
• Invited speaker at IMA Conference on Quantum Computing and Complexity of Quantum Simulation (London, UK, March 2009).
• Tutorial and Invited speaker at INTRIQ workshop on Coding Theory for Quantum Information and Quantum Cryptography (Jouvence, Quebec, May 2009).
• Invited speaker at Theory Canada 5 (Fredericton, New Brunswick, June 2009)
• Invited speaker at 2009 QuantumWorks annual meeting (Toronto, Ontario, June 2009)
• Invited speaker at Quantum Theory and Symmetries 6 conference (Lexington, Kentucky, July 2009)
• Invited speaker at Workshop on Quantum Computation and Quantum Spin Systems (Vienna, Austria, August 2009)
• Invited speaker at The Ninth Canadian Quantum Information Summer School (Toronto, Ontario, August 2009)
• Invited speaker at Conference on Quantum Statistical Mechanics, Computation and Information (Trieste, Italy, June 2010)
• Invited tutorial speaker at Advanced school in quantum information processing and quantum cryptography (Montreal, Quebec, June 2010)
• Invited speaker at 10th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information (Vancouver, British Columbia, July 2009)
• Invited speaker at Controlled Quantum Dynamics Summer School (London, UK, August 2009)

Public Lectures

• Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (Toronto, Ontario, January 2004).
• Ryerson University ITM Speaker Series (Toronto, Ontario, March 2004).
• Quantum Information Science Festival (Calgary, Alberta, January 2005).
• Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference (Toronto, Ontario, January 2006).
• Perimeter Institute Public Lecture (Waterloo, Ontario, April 2007). (Recording: PIRSA:07040020)
• "The Next Big Question" Tour for Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (Halifax, Nova Scotia, September 2007 and Toronto, Ontario, November 2007).
• Panelist on PI Quantum To Cosmos panel discussion, "Harnessing Quantum Physics" (Waterloo, Ontario, October 2009). (Recording: Q2CFestival site).

Teaching

• Fall 2000: Math 324F, "Advanced Multivariable Calculus I," University of Washington Mathematics department
• Spring 2003: Reading course on "Quantum Error Correction," UW Physics department
• Winter 2004: CO 639, "Quantum Error Correction," UW Combinatorics and Optimization department
• Winter 2007: "Quantum Error Correction," Perimeter Institute
• Winter 2010: Quantum Information review, PSI

Professional Activities

• Co-moderator, quant-ph e-print archive.
• Editorial board member for Virtual Journal of Quantum Information.
• Conference organization:
  • Co-chair, QIP 2004 conference.
  • Steering committee member for QIP 2005, QIP 2006, and QIP 2007 conferences, and program committee member for QIP 2006 and QIP 2009.
  • Advisory and award committee member for QCMC 2000, QCMC 2002, QCMC 2004
  • Co-organizer, quantum information session, Canadian Math Society Summer 2005 meeting
  • Program committee member for 2006 GRC on quantum information science
  • Co-organizer, Taming the Quantum World (June 2007)
  • Co-organizer, Fault-tolerant quantum computation II (June 2007)
  • Program committee member for AQIS 2008
  • Member of scientific advisory committee for Fields Institute Thematic Program on the Mathematics in Quantum Information (Summer 2009)
  • Member of organizing committee for 2009 Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information
  • Member of organizing committee for Emergence and Entanglement workshop (May 2010)
• Grant review panels:
  • SFB grant review panel for FWF (Austria, 2008)
  • xQIT visiting committee member (MIT, 2008)
• Book reviews:
  • of Introduction to Quantum Computation and Information, eds. Hoi-Kwong Lo, Sandu Popescu, and Tim Spiller, World Scientific (1998), in Quantum Information and Computation, vol. 2, no. 2 (March 2002), pp. 177-178.
  • of A. Yu. Kitaev, A. H. Shen, and M. N. Vyalyi, Classical and Quantum Computation, American Mathematical Society (2002), in American Mathematical Monthly, Dec. 2003.
  • of J. Audretsch, Entangled Systems: New Directions in Quantum Physics, in The Physics Teacher, Oct. 2007, DOI: 10.1119/1.2783167.
• General audience writing:
  • "Jump-Starting Quantum Error Correction with Entanglement," Science 314, 427-428 (2006), Perspective on T. Brun, I. Devetak, M.-H. Hsieh, "Correcting Quantum Errors with Entanglement". Free reprints (summary, full text).
• Patents:
  • Daniel Gottesman, US Patent 6,128,764: "Quantum error-correcting codes and devices".
  • Isaac Chuang, Daniel Gottesman, U.S. Patent 7,246,240: "Quantum Digital Signatures".

Publications

• Reverse chronological order
• By category (with capsule summaries)

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March 3, 2010