Talks

Invited talks

  1. A beginner’s guide to the landscape of generalized probabilistic theories, on June 30, 2022, at the Workshop: Quantum Information and the Frontiers of Quantum Theory, Lyon, France.
  2. Nonclassicality as generalized contextuality (and only a little more), on May 28, 2022, at New Directions in the Foundations of Physics, Viterbo, Italy.
  3. Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication, on July 14, 2021, at the parallel session (WE15) ‘Mathematical Structures in Quantum Foundations’ of ENSPM2021, national meeting of the Portuguese Mathematical Society. Video available here.
  4. Noise-robust contextuality for Kochen-Specker type scenarios: two complementary frameworks, on March 21, 2019, at the PIMan Workshop, Orange, California, USA.
  5. Hypergraph framework for Spekkens contextuality applied to Kochen-Specker scenarios, on November 10, 2018, at the Purdue Winer Memorial Lectures on Probability and Contextuality, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
  6. Noise-robust noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem, on March 2, 2018, at the Aharonov-Albert-Vaidman (AAV) Conference, Chapman University, Orange County, California, USA. Video available here at 1:15:34.
  7. How to go from the KS theorem to experimentally testable noncontextuality inequalities, at Contextuality: Conceptual Issues, Operational Signatures, and Applications, 2017, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Video available at PIRSA:17070059.

Contributed talks

Quantum Information Processing (QIP):

  1. Almost Quantum Correlations are Inconsistent with Specker’s Principle, at QIP 2019, University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Talk given by Tomáš Gonda, based on: Almost Quantum Correlations are Inconsistent with Specker’s Principle, by  T. Gonda, R. Kunjwal, D. Schmid, E. Wolfe and A. B. Sainz, Quantum 2, 87 (2018).
  2. Noncontextuality violation as a robust quantum resource, at QIP 2016, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada. Talk given by Matthew F. Pusey, based on: An experimental test of noncontextuality without unphysical idealizations, M.D. Mazurek, M. F. Pusey, R. Kunjwal, K. J. Resch and R.W. Spekkens, Nature Communications 7:11780 (2016) (arXiv:1505.06244).

Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL):

  1. Contextuality in composite systems: the role of entanglement in the Kochen-Specker theorem, QPL 2022. (Talk given by V.J. Wright.)
  2. The interplay of entanglement and nonlocality demystified: developing a new branch of entanglement theory, QPL 2021. (Talk given by D. Schmid.)
  3. Joint measurability structures realizable with qubit measurements: incompatibility via marginal surgery, on June 5, 2020, at QPL 2020. Talk given by N. Andrejić.
  4. Contextual advantage for noisy one-shot classical communication assisted by entanglement, on June 2, 2020, at QPL 2020. Talk given by S. A. Yadavalli.
  5. Anomalous weak values and contextuality: robustness, tightness, and imaginary parts, on June 13, 2019, at QPL 2019, Chapman University, Orange, California, USA.
  6. Beyond the CSW framework: a hypergraph framework for Spekkens contextuality, on June 7, 2018, at QPL 2018, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada.
  7. Almost quantum correlations are inconsistent with Specker’s principle,  on June 5, 2018, at QPL 2018, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. (Talk given by T. Gonda)
  8. Irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem, on July 6, 2017, at QPL 2017, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
  9. Noncontextuality inequalities for Specker’s compatibility scenario, and beyond, QPL 2016, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow.
  10. From the Kochen-Specker theorem to noncontextuality inequalities without assuming determinism, QPL 2015, University of Oxford.

Other conferences/meetings:

  1. Trading causal order for locality, August 2, 2022, at Quantum Confessions, Mehedeby, Sweden.
  2. Bell violations from arbitrary joint measurability structures, April 7, 2022, at the Tsirelson Memorial Workshop (2SQRT2), Vienna, Austria. 
  3. Contextuality in composite systems: entanglement vs. the Kochen-Specker theorem, The 20th European Conference on Foundations of Physics, October 28, 2021, Paris, France.
  4. Bell Quantified: The Resource Theory of Nonclassicality of Common-Cause Boxes, on July 10, 2019, at Quantum Causal Structures (QCS), University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  5. Hypergraph framework(s) for Spekkens contextuality applied to Kochen-Specker scenarios, on November 29, 2018, at Q-Turn, Florianopolis, Brazil.
  6. Resource theory of the nonclassicality of common-cause boxes, on June 13, 2018, at the JTF Quantum Causality workshop, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  7. Contextuality as a noise-robust witness of nonclassicality: beyond the Cabello-Severini-Winter framework, on March 8, 2018, at the APS March Meeting, Quantum Foundations II, Los Angeles, California, USA.
  8. Irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem at the Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control VII (CQIQC-VII), 2017, at Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada.
  9. Irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem, on June 4, 2017, at Quantum Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond (QCQMB), Prague, Czech Republic.
  10. Fine’s theorem, noncontextuality, and correlations in Specker’s scenario, Young Quantum 2015, Harish-Chandra Research Institute (HRI), Allahabad.
  11. Minimal state-dependent proof of measurement contextuality for a qubit, Short talk, 13th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference, AQIS 2013, IMSc, Chennai.

Seminars

  1. Qualitative equivalence between incompatibility and Bell nonlocality, March 6, 2023, ICFO, Castelldefels, Spain.
  2. Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication, March 2, 2023, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain.
  3. Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication, February 22, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK.
  4. Trading causal order for locality, February 17, 2023, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  5. Contextuality in composite systems: the role of entanglement in the Kochen-Specker theorem, February 15, 2023, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.
  6. Contextuality in composite systems: entanglement vs. the Kochen-Specker theorem, November 8, 2022, GT Info-Quantique at Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI), Bordeaux, France.
  7. Contextuality in composite systems: entanglement vs. the Kochen-Specker theorem, October 18, 2022, CANA seminar at Laboratoire d’Informatique & Systèmes (LIS), Marseille, France. (Video)
  8. Trading causal order for locality, September 12, 2022, at IMSc, Chennai, India.
  9. Bell violations from arbitrary joint measurability structures, September 9, 2022, at IIT Madras, Chennai, India.
  10. Quantum nonlocality without entanglement via indefinite causal order, June 17, 2022, at the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, ON, Canada. (Video)
  11. Nonclassicality as generalized contextuality (and only a little more), on May 31, 2022, at the Quantum Lab of Fabio Sciarrino, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
  12. Contextuality in composite systems: entanglement vs. the Kochen-Specker theorem, March 31, 2022, at the Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
  13. Bell violations from arbitrary joint measurability structures, March 23, 2022, at Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
  14. An introduction to contextuality, March 22, 2022, at Laboratoire de Physique Théorique de Toulouse, Toulouse, France.
  15. How quantum nonlocality without entanglement witnesses classical communication without causal order, February 18, 2022, Foundations of Physics seminar, Utrecht University, Utrecht.
  16. How quantum nonlocality without entanglement witnesses classical communication without causal order, February 16, 2022, QLIC seminar, ULB, Brussels.
  17. Contextuality in composite systems: entanglement vs. the Kochen-Specker theorem, November 26, 2021, at Institut Néel, Grenoble, France.
  18. Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication, on November 24, 2021, CAPP seminar at LIG, Grenoble, France.
  19. Contextuality in composite systems: entanglement vs. the Kochen-Specker theorem, IQOQI Seminar, November 16, 2021, Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information, Vienna, Austria.
  20. Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication, on October 8, 2021, seminar at LIP6, Sorbonne Université – CNRS, Paris, France.
  21. Contextuality in entanglement-assisted one-shot classical communication, on September 29, 2021, seminar at ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
  22. Contextuality in Entanglement-assisted One-shot Classical Communication, on February 12, 2021, QuSoft seminar, QuSoft Amsterdam. (Video)
  23. Contextuality in Entanglement-assisted One-shot Classical Communication, on February 4, 2021, at the QLIC meet, ULB, Brussels.
  24. The Frauchiger-Renner no-go theorem, on July 9, 2020, at the QLIC meet, ULB, Brussels.
  25. Noise-robust contextuality for Kochen-Specker type scenarios: two complementary frameworks, on January 30, 2020, at QuIC, ULB, Brussels. (Video)
  26. Bell Quantified: The Resource Theory of Nonclassicality of Common-Cause Boxes, on November 14, 2019, at IMSc, Chennai, India.
  27. Anomalous weak values and contextuality: robustness, tightness, and imaginary parts, on September 24, 2019, at Quantum Foundations seminar series, Perimeter Institute, Canada. (Video)
  28. Noise-robust contextuality for Kochen-Specker type scenarios: two complementary frameworks, on April 9, 2019, at Robert Raussendorf’s group meeting at University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
  29. Hypergraph framework for Spekkens contextuality applied to Kochen-Specker scenarios, on December 18, 2018, at IMSc, Chennai, India.
  30. Experimentally robust nonclassicality, on December 21, 2018, at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences (ICTS), Bengaluru, India. 
  31. Contextuality attenuates noise in classical communication, on October 22, 2018, ‘Lobster Lunch’ talk (Jon Barrett’s group meeting) at the Quantum Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK.
  32. Hypergraph framework for Spekkens contextuality applied to Kochen-Specker scenarios, on June 18, 2018, at University College London, London, UK.
  33. How to go from the Kochen-Specker theorem to experimentally testable signatures of contextuality, on March 22, 2018, at the QuICS Seminar, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA.
  34. How to go from the Kochen-Specker theorem to experimentally testable signatures of contextuality, on January 19, 2018, at the Raman Research Institute (RRI), Bengaluru, India
  35. Witnessing nonclassicality from statistical proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem, on January 17, 2018, at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India
  36. A hypergraph framework for Spekkens contextuality applied to statistical proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem, on January 9, 2018, at the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER), Mohali, India.
  37. From statistical proofs of the Kochen-Specker theorem to noise-robust noncontextuality inequalities, on December 20, 2017, at the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India.
  38. How to go from the Kochen-Specker theorem to experimentally testable noncontextuality inequalities, on July 18, 2017, at the University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
  39. Irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem, on June 14, 2017, at the Group of Applied Physics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.
  40. A road to contextuality via Specker’s parable, on June 8, 2017, at the University of Turku, Turku, Finland.
  41. Irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem, on June 4, 2017, at Quantum Contextuality in Quantum Mechanics and Beyond (QCQMB), Prague, Czech Republic.
  42. Irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem, on May 31, 2017, at Universitat Autonoma Barcelona (UAB), Bellaterra (Barcelona), Spain.
  43. Irreducible noncontextuality inequalities from the Kochen-Specker theorem, on May 30, 2017, at The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Castelldefels (Barcelona), Spain.
  44. What are the simplest noncontextuality inequalities obtainable from KS-uncolourable hypergraphs?, on December 29, 2016, at The Institute of Mathematical Sciences (IMSc), Chennai, India.
  45. Contextuality in the presence of noise, on December 19, 2016, at the Random Interactions seminar at Tata Institute of Fundamental Research (TIFR), Mumbai, India.
  46. Fine’s theorem, noncontextuality, and correlations in Specker’s scenario, hbar seminar, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras, February 12, 2015.
  47. Noncontextuality without determinism and admissible (in)compatibility relations: revisiting Specker’s parable, Quantum Foundations seminar at Perimeter Institute (PI), Canada, on January 14, 2014,  PIRSA:14010102.

PhD Defense

Contextuality beyond the Kochen-Specker theorem, August 5, 2016, at IMSc Chennai.