ERNESTO FAGUNDES GALVÃO
Curriculum Vitae
Personal data
Name: Ernesto Fagundes
Galvão
Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics
Tel:
(519) 569-7600 ext. 8511
email: egalvao at perimeterinstitute.ca
Date of birth:
Nationality: Brazilian
Education
1998-2002 D.Phil. (Ph.D.) degree, Clarendon Laboratory,
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 (
[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).
[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
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,
2002 Co-supervised award-winning summer project of
student Hilary Greaves at Clarendon Laboratory,
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,
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,
2003 Keynote speaker at the Young
Physicists of Canada program, Perimeter Institute (
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 (
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,
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,
2004 QIP 2004 - The Seventh Workshop on
Quantum Information Processing.
2003 Pan American Advanced Studies Institute on the Physics of
Information,
2003 Quantum Information and Communication
workshop in the
2002 Talk at the IUPAP International Conference on "Quantum
Entanglement, Complexity and the Physical Basis for Quantum Computation",
CBPF,
2002 Poster presentation at the EURESCO Conference on quantum
information: quantum entanglement. San
2002 Poster presentation at the International Conference on
Quantum information: conceptual foundations.
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,
2000 Poster presentation at Fifth
International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement & Computing.
1999 8th U.K. Foundations
of Physics meeting. 13/9 to
1999
Newton Institute workshop on Complexity,
Computation and the Physics of Information (
1998 Jorge André Swieca Summer School on Quantum and non-linear Optics (
1996,1997 Two summer courses at the
Mathematics Department, PUC-Rio, on Information Theory and Discrete
Mathematics.
1993,1995 Lafex
International Schools on High Energy Physics (LISHEP'93 and LISHEP'95),
organized by LAFEX - CBPF.
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.