“Symmetry, self-duality and the
Jordan structure of quantum theory”, invited talk, Conceptual
Foundations and Foils for Quantum Information Processing, Perimeter
Institute for Theoretical Physics, May, 2011
“Homogeneous self-dual cones and
the structure of quantum theory”, Focus
session on Quantum Information and Quantum Foundations, American Physical
Society March meeting, Dallas, April 2011
“For Measurement”, 16th UK and European
Meeting on the Foundations of Physics,
“Convexity, categories and the
foundations of physics”, accepted for presentation at QPL VII,
Two invited lectures for the course “Foundations
and Interpretations of Quantum Theory”,
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics and University of Waterloo
University, February, 2010 (had to cancel; talks given by H. Barnum instead.)
“Four and a half axioms for
quantum mechanics”, invited talk, Workshop
on Reconstructions of Quantum Mechanics, Perimeter Institute,
“Composition and symmetry in
general probabilistic theories”, invited talk, workshop on Logics inspired by quantum computation,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, May 2009; also as a contributed talk,
QPL VI,
Oxford, April 2009
“Entanglement and measurement in
general probabilistic theories”, invited talk, 22nd annual
workshop on the history and philosophy of science, van Leer Jerusalem
institute, Jerusalem, Israel, December 2008; also in the Foundations Seminar, Perimeter Institute,
Waterloo, CA, March 2009.
“A recipe for probabilistic
theories”, invited talk, QICS workshop on foundational
structures for quantum information and computation,
“Teleportation protocols in
categories of abstract state spaces” (with Howard Barnum), Joint 5th
QPL / 4th DCM workshops,
“Teleportation protocols for
abstract state spaces”, invited
talk, Workshop on information
primitives and laws of nature, ETH Zürich, May 2008
“Broadcasting, teleportation,
bit-commitment and all that: a view from altitude”, invited joint talk with Howard Barnum, The Clifford Lectures,
Tulane University, New Orleans, March 2008
“Tensor
products and teleportation protocols for abstract state spaces”, American
Physical Society focus
session on foundations of quantum theory, March 2008, New Orleans
(Delivered in my absence by Howard Barnum!)
“Aspects of entanglement in
generalized probabilistic theories”, invited talk, mini-conference on Operational
approaches to quantum theory,
“Tensor products and
teleportation protocols in convex operational theories”, joint invited
talk with Howard Barnum, LARSIM,
Saclay, France, October 2007
“Entanglement and measurement in
abstract probabilistic theories”, Center
for Philosophy of Science lunchtime colloquium,
“Tensor products and
teleportation in general probabilistic theories”, invited talk, OASIS
seminar, Oxford University Computing Lab, July, 2007
“Entanglement in general
probabilistic theories”, invited talk, workshop on Operational
probabilistic theories as foils to quantum theory,
“Probability theory –
classical, quantum and otherwise”, PIQDOS
talk (recorded!), Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics,
“Covariance and quantum
logic”, plenary talk, Quantum
Structures ’06 (8th biennial conference of the
International Quantum Structures Association),
“An introduction to quantum logic”,
series of three commissioned tutorial lectures, Quantum
information, computation, and logic: exploring new connections, Perimeter
Institute,
“Symmetry in quantum
logic”, invited talk, Quantum
information, computing and logic: exploring new connections, Perimeter
Institute,
“Symmetry
and topology in quantum logic”,
Plenary prize talk, Quantum Structures
‘04 (7th biennial conference of the International Quantum
Structures Association),
“Topological
methods in quantum logic”,
invited talk, Mathematical Logic
Meets Philosophical Logic, Free University of Brussels,