Juan Ignacio Cirac, Director of the Theory Division of the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Germany, is a leading quantum information theorist whose group recently received the 2009 Carl Zeiss Research Award. His research aims to characterize quantum phenomena, and to develop a new theory of information based on quantum mechanics, work which may ultimately contribute to the development of quantum computers.
Talks by Ignacio Cirac

Quantum Cellular Automata, Tensor Networks, and Area Laws
Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

Bulk-boundary correspondence in PEPS
Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

Entanglement spectrum and boundary theories with projected entangled-pair states
Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

PSI Special Lecture - Ignacio Cirac
Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

Description of many-body systems using MPS, PEPS, and other families of states
Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)

Harnessing Quantum Physics
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Michele Mosca Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC)
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Daniel Gottesman Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
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Dorit Aharonov Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Ignacio Cirac Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics - Albert Einstein Institute (AEI)
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Peter Shor Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Mathematics
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Avi Wigderson Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)