Updates

2010-04-20: Article with Jan Fischer and Daniel Loss on spin-bath decoherence has appeared in Phys. Rev. B.
2009-12-29: The website for QISS is up.
2009-12-08: Article with Jay Gambetta on entangled photons has appeared in Phys. Rev. B.
2009-11-26: I was recently interviewed as part of an article in Nature on quantum information science.
2009-11-23: New article with Jan Fischer and Daniel Loss on nuclear spin-bath decoherence now on the arXiv.
2009-10-01: Nature Physics News and Views article on two exciting new experiments (featured on the cover)
2009-09-20: Nuclear-spin review with Jonathan Baugh makes the cover of Phys. Stat. Sol. B
2009-07-03: New article on entangled-photon generation on the arXiv.
2009-05-13: New review article about nuclear spins on the arXiv.
2009-04-30: Our article on the Pauli spin blockade has been published in Phys. Rev. Lett.
2009-04-18: CIFAR Junior Fellow meeting covered in the National Post

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Upcoming conferences/visits

• CIFAR Quantum Information Processing, 8-12 May 2010, Innsbruck, Austria
  
• QISS: Quantum Information Processing with Spins and Superconductors, 16-19 May 2010, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
  
• CIFAR Junior Fellow Academy Meeting, 7-8 June 2010, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  
• School and conference on spin-based quantum information processing , 16-20 August 2010, Konstanz, Germany
  will present: one invited talk
• AQIS 2010: Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science, 28-31 August 2010, University of Tokyo, Tokyo Japan
  will present: one invited talk

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Past conferences/visits (since Mar. 2009)

• Ludwig-Maximillians-Universität Munich, 28-29 April 2010, Munich, Germany
  presented one invited talk: "Quantum Dynamics and Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetism"
• Group of Rainer Blatt, Universität Innsbruck and IQOQI, 26-27 April 2010, Innsbruck, Austria
  presented one invited talk: "Spin coherence in the solid state: From quantum computing to quantum communication"
• RWTH Aachen, Aachen Germany, 15 April 2010
  presented one invited talk: "Quantum Dynamics and Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetism"
  
• Quantum Cavities Workshop, 8-11 April 2010, Montréal, QC, Canada
  presented one poster: "Sideband eraser of which-path information for entangled photons on demand"
  
• APS March Meeting, 15-19 March 2010, Portland Oregon, USA
  present one contributed talk: "Sideband eraser of which-path information for entangled photons on demand"
• SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA, 16 February 2010
  presented one seminar "New ideas for entangled photon pair generation and a new platform for coupling spins to light"
• University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USA, 8-9 February 2010
  presented one colloquium: "Quantum Dynamics and Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetism"
  and one seminar: "Quantum Dynamics in a Spin Bath"
• McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada, 20-21 January 2010
  presented one colloquium: "Quantum Dynamics and Nanoscale Nuclear Magnetism"
• Groups of Profs. S. Tarucha and Y. Tokura,
  12-18 Dec. 2009, NTT Atsugi and University of Tokyo, Japan
  presented: two invited talks "Nuclear-spin state narrowing in quantum dots"
• KITP Program in Quantum Information Science, 14 Sept. to 11 Dec. 2009, (Santa Barbara, CA)
  presented: one invited talk (on 3 Dec. 2009; "Spin-bath decoherence: Old results and new surprises")
• CIFAR Junior Fellow Academy Meeting, 9-10 Nov. 2009, Toronto, ON
  presented: one public lecture at the Lunar Circle dinner: "How can quantum physics transform information technology?"
• CIFAR QIP Meeting, 27-30 Oct. 2009, Banff, AB
  presented one invited talk: "Physical flying qubits"
• University of Manitoba Physics Department Colloquium, 23 Oct. 2009, (Winnipeg, MB)
  presented one colloquium: "From electron spins to photons: Physical quantum information processing"
• Université de Sherbrooke, 31 Aug. to 6 Sept. 2009
  presented one invited talk: "The power of spin: Manipulation, decoherence, and coupling to light"
• Spintech 5, 7-11 July 2009 (Cracow, Poland)
  presented one contributed talk: "Three mysteries of the Pauli spin blockade"
• International Conference on Quantum Engineering, 14-19 June 2009 (Monte Verità, Switzerland)
  presented one poster: "Sideband eraser of 'which-path' information for entangled photons on demand"
• CIFAR Nanoelectronics meeting, 11-14 May 2009 (Whistler, BC, Canada)
  presented one poster: "Leakage current and fractional effective charge in the Pauli spin blockade"
• 4-Corners Condensed Matter Symposium, 23 April 2009 (Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, ON, Canada)
• CIFAR Junior Fellow Meeting, 14-15 April 2009 (Toronto, ON, Canada)
  presented one invited talk: "The future of quantum hardware"
• APS March meeting, 16-20 Mar. 2009 (Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
  presented one invited talk: "Decoherence mechanisms for electron and hole spins in quantum dots" and one contributed talk: "Transient and stationary leakage current through a double quantum dot in the Pauli spin blockade regime.