ERNESTO FAGUNDES GALVÃO

Curriculum Vitae

 

 

Personal data

 

Name: Ernesto Fagundes Galvão

Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

31 Caroline St. North

Waterloo, Ontario

Canada N2L 2Y5

Tel:  (519) 569-7600 ext. 8511

email: egalvao at perimeterinstitute.ca

Date of birth: 5th December, 1973.

Nationality: Brazilian

 

Education

 

1998-2002 D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degree, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford

Thesis title: 'Foundations of quantum theory and quantum information applications'

Advisor: Dr. Lucien Hardy

 

1996-1998 Master's degree in physics, Quantum Optics.

Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Dissertation title: 'Dynamical Casimir effect with partially reflecting mirrors'

Advisor: Dr. Paulo Américo Maia Neto

 

1992-1996. Bachelor degree in physics. Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

 

Publications

 

[1] Galvão E. F., Plenio M. B. and Virmani S. Tripartite entanglement and quantum relative entropy. J. Phys. A  33, 8809 (2000).

[2] Galvão E. F., and Hardy, L. Cloning and quantum computation. Phys. Rev. A 62, 022301 (2000).

[3] Galvão, E. F., and Hardy, L. Building multiparticle states with teleportation. Phys. Rev. A 62, 012309 (2000).

[4] Galvão E.F. Feasible quantum communication complexity protocol. Phys. Rev. A 65, 012318 (2002). Also selected for the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, volume 2, issue 1 (January 2002).

[5] Galvão E. F., and Hardy, L. Substituting a qubit for an arbitrarily large number of classical bits. Phys. Rev. Lett. 90, 087902 (2003). Also selected for the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, volume 3, issue 3 (March 2003), and  Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, vol. 7, issue 11 (March 17th, 2003).

[6] Galvão E. F. Discrete Wigner functions and quantum computational speedup. Phys. Rev. A 71, 042302 (2005). Also selected for the Virtual Journal of Quantum Information, volume 5, issue 4 (April 2005).

 

Preprints:

 

[7] Cormick C., Galvão E. F., Gottesman D., Paz J. P., and Pittenger A. O. Classicality in discrete Wigner functions. Preprint quant-ph/0506222.

[8] Galvão E. F., Experimental requirements for quantum communication complexity. Preprint quant-ph/0009014.

[9] Galvão E. F., Foundations of quantum theory and quantum information applications, preprint quant-ph/0212124.

 

 

Scholarships and prizes

 

 

2004                Approved in selection process (`concurso´) for professor at the UNICAMP Physics Institute. 10 a 12/2/2004.

2002-2005       Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

1999 - 2001     Overseas Research Students (ORS) Award from Universities UK (worth roughly £12000).

1998 - 2002     Ph.D. scholarship for study abroad from the Brazilian agency Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

1996 - 1998     Master's degree scholarship from CAPES.

1995                Tutorship scholarship, PUC-Rio.

1992-1995       Full tuition Academic Performance scholarship, PUC-Rio.

1992-1994       Undergraduate Research Programme scholarship (´Iniciação Científica´) by the Brazilian agency Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CnPq).

 

Teaching and academic supervising

 

2003- Co-supervision of undergraduate research project of student Aissa Stein, University of Waterloo (with Lee Smolin).

2002 Co-supervised  award-winning summer project of student Hilary Greaves at Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford (with Lucien Hardy).

2000, 2001 Tutor in two one-week long physics courses for gifted A-level (secondary) students. Villiers Park Educational Trust.

1995 Volunteer tutor for poor students aiming at passing the university entrance exam. André Maurois school, Rio de Janeiro.

1995 Tutor for "Physics for Arts" course at PUC-Rio.

1995 Tutor in exercise classes for basic physics course (Physics II), PUC-Rio.

 

Other professional activities

 

2004- Monthly columns on science for the ´Sexta Livre´ program of Radio Centre-Ville, Montréal, Canada (in Portuguese).

2003 Keynote speaker at the Young Physicists of Canada program, Perimeter Institute (Canada), August.

2003 Co-organizer of the first Perimeter Institute quantum information workshop (with Ivette Fuentes Guridi). March 25th.

2002 Participation in the 30-minute CKCO-TV (Ontario) program "The big questions", explaining relativity and quantum theory to school students. First broadcast on Dec 1st, 2002.

2000-Referee for the journals Physical Review A, Physical Review Letters, Quantum Information and Computation, Journal of Physics A, Physics Letters A.

1999-2002 Junior Member of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences (University of Cambridge).

1999-   Various talks at University of Oxford, Cambridge, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Perimeter Institute, University of Waterloo, Buenos Aires University, Fluminense Federal University.

1994-1995 President of the Maths, Chemistry and Physics student society at PUC-Rio.

 

Conferences, seminars and workshops

 

2005 Talk at the Quantum Physics of Nature & 6th European QIPC Workshop, Vienna. May 22nd-26th.

2004 Quantum Information Theory: Present Status and Future Directions workshop, Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge (U.K.),  23-27 August.

2004 Quantum computing, Quantum Information, Quantum Gravity workshop, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo (Canada), February 23-27th.

2004 QIP 2004 - The Seventh Workshop on Quantum Information Processing. Waterloo, Canada, January 15-19th.

2003 Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on the Physics of Information, Búzios, Brazil, December 4-9th.

2003 Quantum Information and Communication workshop in the Benasque Center for Science, Spain, June 22 - July 13.

2002 Talk at the IUPAP International Conference on "Quantum Entanglement, Complexity and the Physical Basis for Quantum Computation", CBPF, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, December 2-6.

2002 Poster presentation at the EURESCO Conference on quantum information: quantum entanglement. San Feliu de Guixols, Spain, March 23-28.

2002 Poster presentation at the International Conference on Quantum information: conceptual foundations. University of Oviedo, Spain, July 13-18.

2002 Poster presentation at QRANDOM II Conference at the Max Planck Institute- Dresden (27/01 to 02/02).

2001 Talk in open session of Fourth Workshop on Quantum Information Processing. CWI, Amsterdam, January 9-12.

2000 Poster presentation at Fifth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement & Computing. Capri, Italy, July 3-8.

1999 8th U.K. Foundations of Physics meeting. 13/9 to 17/9/1999.

1999  Newton Institute workshop on Complexity, Computation and the Physics of Information (Cambridge). 5/7 to 17/7/99.

1998 Jorge André Swieca Summer School on Quantum and non-linear Optics (São Carlos, Brazil). 05/01/1998 to 16/01/1998.

1996,1997 Two summer courses at the Mathematics Department, PUC-Rio, on Information Theory and Discrete Mathematics. 12/02/96 to 16/02/96, 17/02/97 to 28/02/97.

1993,1995 Lafex International Schools on High Energy Physics (LISHEP'93 and LISHEP'95), organized by LAFEX - CBPF. 24/01/93 to 13/02/93 and 06/02/95 to 22/02/95.

1992-1994 Pursued an undergraduate research project in the High-Energy Physics and Cosmology Laboratory of the Brazilian Centre for Physical Research (LAFEX- CBPF).

 

Languages

 

Native Portuguese speaker, fluent English. Basic French and Spanish.