Dr. David Reeb Personal Data Address: Institute for Theoretical Physics Leibniz Universitat¨ Hannover Appelstr. 2 30167 Hannover, Germany Place and date of birth: Ellwangen, Germany, 4th October 1981 Citizenship: German Office phone: +49 (0)511 762 17508 Email: [email protected] Website: www.itp.uni-hannover.de/Gruppen/quinfo/dreeb/ Fields of Specialization Quantum Information: information and communication theory, entanglement, quantum thermody- namics, dissipative state preparation, underlying mathematical structures Mathematical Physics: statistical physics, Markov chains and master equations, equilibration, ma- trix analysis and operator algebras Applied Mathematics: convex optimization, polynomial optimization hierarchies, algebraic geom- etry, including computational methods Professional Experience 12/2014 – present Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Information group (Prof. R. Werner) Institute for Theoretical Physics, Leibniz Universitat¨ Hannover, Germany 12/2012 – 11/2014 Marie Curie Fellow, Intra-European Fellowship Department of Mathematics, Technische Universitat¨ Munchen,¨ Germany 05/2011 – 11/2012 Postdoctoral Researcher, Mathematical Physics group (Prof. M. Wolf) Department of Mathematics, Technische Universitat¨ Munchen,¨ Germany 07/2010 – 04/2011 Postdoctoral Researcher, Quantum Information group (Prof. M. Wolf) Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 09/2006 – 06/2010 PhD Student, Institute for Theoretical Science (Prof. Stephen Hsu) Department of Physics, University of Oregon, Eugene, USA Education PhD in Physics, University of Oregon (Eugene, USA), 09/2006–06/2010 Thesis title: “Gravitational Effects in Models of Grand Unification”, defended in May 2010 Thesis advisor: Prof. Stephen D. H. Hsu Master of Science in Physics, University of Oregon (Eugene, USA), 09/2005–06/2006 Topics in High Energy Physics, Grade Point Average: 4.10, overall grade: A (very good) Studies of Mathematics and Physics, Universitat¨ Ulm (Germany), 09/2002–08/2005 Vordiplom (BSc.) in Physics (10/2004) and in Mathematics (12/2004) (grades: 1.0, very good) CV 12/2016 — Dr. David Reeb — page 1/5 Grants and Awards 10/2016 “Research in Pairs” stay at Oberwolfach Research Institute (MFO) Project “Applications of Real Algebraic Geometry in Quantum Information Theory”, with Dr. Alexander Muller-Hermes¨ and Dr. Ion Nechita 02/2013 Walther-von-Dyck Prize Biennial award for an excellent young researcher, Department of Mathe- matics, TU Munchen;¨ funded project “Convergence behaviour of classical and quantum Markov processes”, budget for two years: 25,000 EUR 03/2012 Marie Curie Fellowship European grant awarded for my project “Quantum Information Theory with Liouvillians” (QUINTYL), implemented at TU Munchen¨ from 12/2012– 11/2014 (24 months); budget: 165,000 EUR 09/2008 Paul A. M. Dirac Diploma and New Talent Award Two awards for contributions during and presentation given at the Interna- tional School of Subnuclear Physics, Erice (Italy) 09/2006 Weiser Memorial Fund Prize Awarded by the Department of Physics, University of Oregon, for the best PhD qualifying exam each year 2005 – 2006 Fellowship “Baden-Wurttemberg¨ Stipendium” Covering tuition and living expenses during my student exchange year at the University of Oregon, Eugene (USA) 2002 – 2006 Fellowship “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes” The Studienstiftung (“German National Merit Foundation”) serves as the main instrument to recognize and support the student elite in Germany 1992 – 2002 Numerous Awards at Mathematics Competitions First and second prizes at the Bundes- and Landeswettbewerb Mathematik (state and federal level, Germany); member of the German preparation team for the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) 2001 Selected List of Talks 12/2016 Fundamental energy cost for quantum measurement – invited talk at COST consortium workshop “Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Thermody- namics”, Smolenice, Czech Republic 09/2016 A Mrs. Gerber’s Lemma with quantum side information? – invited talk at workshop “Quantum Information Theory and Mathematical Physics”, Budapest, Hungary 07/2016 Fundamental energy cost for quantum measurement – invited talk at sum- mer school “Stochastic Methods in Quantum Mechanics”, Autrans, France 01/2016 Semidefinite programming for completely positive extensions and quantum channels – invited talk at workshop “Linear Matrix Inequalities, Semidef- inite Programming and Quantum Information Theory”, Toulouse, France 11/2015 Positivity of linear maps under tensor powers – invited plenary talk at “Fourteenth International Conference on Mathematics and its Applica- tions” (ICMA 2015), Timisoara, Romania CV 12/2016 — Dr. David Reeb — page 2/5 09/2015 Landauer’s Principle and finite-size effects in quantum thermodynamics – invited lecture (4 hours) at workshop “Quantum Thermodynamics and Quantum Information Theory”, Toulouse, France 02/2014 An improved Landauer Principle with finite-size corrections and applica- tions to statistical physics – contributed talk at the leading conference in the field “Quantum Information Processing” (QIP 2014), Barcelona, Spain 10/2013 Convergence bounds for dissipative quantum time evolutions – invited talk at the workshop of the research school “Quantum Computing, Control and Communication (QCCC)”, Prien am Chiemsee, Germany 08/2013 An improved Landauer Principle with finite-size corrections – talk given during the research program “Mathematical Horizons for Quantum Physics” at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Singapore 06/2013 Cutoff phenomenon and spectral convergence bounds for quantum Markov chains – invited talk at workshop “Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Modelling, Estimation and Control”, Padova, Italy 05/2013 (Im-)Proving Landauer’s Principle – colloquium talk at the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC), University of Waterloo, Canada 10/2011 Hilbert’s projective metric in Quantum Information Theory – invited tuto- rial at the workshop of the research school “Quantum Computing, Control and Communication (QCCC)”, Bernried, Germany 09/2011 Extending quantum operations – contributed talk at conference “Quantum Information Processing and Communication”, ETH Zurich, Switzerland 03/2009 On the sign problem in dense QCD – invited talk at workshop “Sign Prob- lems and Complex Actions”, ECT Trento, Italy Teaching spring 2016 Lecture course “From Classical to Quantum Information Theory” URL: www.itp.uni-hannover.de/Gruppen/quinfo/dreeb/infotheory2016.html 4 hrs. per week including bi-weekly exercises, Leibniz Universitat¨ Han- nover. Responsible for selecting the material, lecturing, exercises, and exam. Teaching evaluations available. spring 2015 Exercises for “Computational Physics” Devising exercises, teaching exercise classes and computer tutorials, Leib- niz Universitat¨ Hannover. winter 2013/14 Lecture course “Mathematical Basis of Quantum Statistical Physics” URL: www-m5.ma.tum.de/Allgemeines/MA5109 2013W 3 hrs. per week including bi-weekly exercises, TU Munchen.¨ Course was eligible for the Munich master program “Theoretical and Mathematical Physics” (TMP). Responsible for selecting material, lecturing, exercises, exercise sessions, and oral examinations. Teaching evaluations available. 2011 – 2013 Supervisor in Master’s seminars (Hauptseminare) and Bachelor’s seminars (Proseminare) at TU Munchen¨ on “Advanced Matrix Analysis”, “Mathe- matics and Magic”, “Uncertainty Relations”. 2006 – 2008 Teaching assistant and lab instructor for various physics undergraduate courses, University of Oregon. Several course evaluations available. 2004 – 2005 Tutor and assistant (Linear Algebra, Real Analysis I & II), Department of Mathematics and Economics, University of Ulm. CV 12/2016 — Dr. David Reeb — page 3/5 Student Supervision Leibniz Universitat¨ supervising one PhD student on Quantum Thermodynamics (formal advi- Hannover sor: Prof. Werner), resulting in joint paper; advising of other PhD students; supervision of several Bachelor’s and Master’s projects Technische Universitat¨ co-supervision of research projects of two PhD students jointly with Munchen¨ Prof. M. Wolf, resulting in three joint papers; supervision of a Master’s and a Bachelor’s student; hosting and supervising a DAAD summer research student Niels Bohr Institute co-supervision of research projects of a PhD student jointly with Prof. Copenhagen M. Wolf, resulting in two papers; supervision of a summer research project University of Oregon student advisor for the General Science Program, advising students on class options and future career paths (2008–2010) Academic Service 2015 – 2016 Organizing and supervising weekly PhD and Master’s student seminar, which I initiated in fall 2015 in the Quantum Information group in Han- nover, featuring tutorial sessions and introductory-level research talks 2014 Organized group research visit on Quantum Thermodynamics of the Quantum Information group from LU Hannover at TU Munchen¨ 2013 Organized the “Workshop on Coexistence and Joint Measurability”, 9–12 September 2013 at the Department of Mathematics, TU Munchen,¨ applied for and received substantial funding from DFG, URL: http://www-m5.ma.tum.de/Allgemeines/CoexistenceWorkshop2013 2011 – 2014 Administration of research grants, scientific and financial reporting: Marie Curie Fellowship grant QUINTYL, EU-STREP project QUEVADIS, EU-STREP project COQUIT, EU/BMBF project CQC 2011 – 2012 Coordination of the department website relaunch (www.ma.tum.de); departmental contact person for two projects carried out by a consulting firm over the course of