Michael Nathanson  |  Scholarship  

Education:

• Ph.D. Mathematics, Northeastern University, May 12, 2005
  Thesis: Local Discrimination and Quantum Channel Capacities, Advisor: Christopher King

Fellowships:

• Visiting Researcher - Fields Institute (July 2009)
• Project NExT Fellow - Mathematical Association of America (August 2005)

Presentations:

Selected Presentations

• Conjugating matrices to get uniform diagonals. Nathanson, Michael (talk, speech or lecture)
  MAA Mathfest, Pittsburgh, PA
  (August 2010)
• Mathematics as a Second Language. Nathanson, Michael (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  Northeastern University Alumni Conference
  (March 2010)
• Finding a Classical Needle in a Quantum Haystack: An Introduction to Quantum Algorithms. Nathanson, Michael (talk, speech or lecture, invited)
  USF Mathematics Colloquium
  (February 2010)
• The Guessing Secrets Problem: Classical and Quantum Algorithms. Nathanson, Michael (talk, speech or lecture)
  MAA MathFest, Madison, Wisconsin
  (August 2008)
• Distinguishing Quantum States with LOCC. Nathanson, Michael
  UC Davis Mathematical Physics and Probability Seminar
  (November 2007)
• Testing for a particular pure state with LOCC. Nathanson, Michael
  Joint Meeting of the American and Polish Mathematical Societies, University of Warsaw, Poland
  (August 2007)

Publications:

• Nathanson, Michael. March 2010. Testing for a pure state with local operations and classical communication, Journal of Mathematical Physics, vol. 51, pg.042102
• Nathanson, Michael. February 2010. Quantum Guessing via Deutsch-Jozsa, Quantum Information and Computation, vol. 10, pg.0837-0847
• Nathanson, M. and Ruskai, M.B. 2007. Pauli Diagonal Channels Constant on Axes, J. Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, vol. 40, pg.8171-8204
• King, C., Matsumoto, K., Nathanson, M. and Ruskai, M.B. 2007. Properties of Conjugate Channels with Applications to Additivity and Multiplicativity, Markov Processes and Related Fields, vol. 13, pg.391-423