Alejandro Díaz-Caro
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
Facultad de Cs. Exactas, Ingeniería y Agrimensura
Universidad Nacional de Rosario

Phone: (+54-341) 485-2683
Mobile: (+54-341) 6-688-102
Email: (GPG Key)
Mailing address:
   Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación
   Universidad Nacional de Rosario
   Pellegrini 250
   S2000BTP Rosario, SF
   Argentina

About me

Curriculum vitae

Undergraduate Thesis

• Title: Adding Measurement to van Tonder's Calculus.
• Director: Manuel Gadella. (Manolo).
• Co-Director: Pablo Martínez López. (Fidel).
• Abstract: here (in English).
• Slides: Available in Spanish here (print version).
  Here is the version in English that I used to present it at QCG on March 11th, 2008.
• Video: A home-made video is available in my Blog.
• Thesis report: Available in Spanish here.

Activities

• Teaching:
  • On the first semester of 2008 I am Graduate Teaching Assistant on Algebra and Geometry I at the Basic Sciences School.
  • On the second semester of 2007 I was Undergraduate Teaching Assistant on Mathematical Analysis IV at the Computer Science Department.
• Publications:
  • A. Díaz-Caro, P. Arrighi, M. Gadella and J. Grattage, "Measurements and confluence in quantum lambda calculi with explicit qubits", Accepted by QPL (2008). (Preprint at arXiv:0806.2447).
  • A. Díaz-Caro and M. Gadella, "A Discussion on the Teleportation Protocol for States of N Qubits", SECYT-FCEIA, Technical Report ID 05/02 (2005) (Preprint at arXiv:quant-ph/0505009)
  • A. Díaz-Caro, "Generalización del Algoritmo Cuántico de Teleportación", VII WICC, p1-5, ISBN: 950-665-337-2 (2005).
• Talks given:
  • Lecture: "Introduction to Quantum Computation" (8.0hs length) at UNR, Argentina. Spanish notes available here.
  • Informal talk: "Adding Measurement to van Tonder's Calculus" (0.30hs length) at QCG, France. Slides available here.
  • Seminar: "N-qubits Teleportation Algorithm" (1.0h length) at UVa, Spain. Spanish slides available here.
  • Seminar: "A really brief introduction to Quantum Computation", together with Julián Samborski Forlese (1.0h length) at JAI v.2.0, Argentina. Spanish slides available here.
  • Seminar: "Quantum Lambda Calculus" (1.30hs length) at UNR, Argentina. Spanish slides available here (print version).
• Courses taken:
  • 2007: Ninth J. J. Giambiagi Winter School, part A, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Programme).
  • 2006: WECIQ, Pelotas, RS, Brazil. (Programme).
  • 2006: One month (February) on the Trimester "Quantum Information, Computation and Complexity" at the L'IHP, Paris, France (Programme).
  • 2004: Posgraduate course on Quantum Computation and Information by Manuel Gadella.
  • 2004: Quantum Computation and its Applications to Cryptography by Pedro Hecht.