Giannicola Scarpa

CWI
Science Park 123, NL-1098 XG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Room L238
+31 (0)20 592 4236
g.scarpa@cwi.nl

About me

I am a Ph.D. student at CWI, Amsterdam. My advisor is Ronald de Wolf. I am interested in quantum computing, particularly non-local games and the use of quantum techniques to prove classical theorems.

I graduated from Università degli Studi di Salerno in Computer Science (cum laude) in 2009. My Master's thesis is about quantum game theory, supervised by Giuseppe Persiano.

Publications

Here is a list of publications which I have authored or co-authored:

• G. Scarpa and S. Severini. Kochen-Specker Sets and the Rank-1 Quantum Chromatic Number.
  In IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol.58, no.4, pp.2524-2529, April 2012. (PDF)
• H. Buhrman, O. Regev, G. Scarpa, and R. de Wolf. Near-Optimal and Explicit Bell Inequality Violations.
  QIP'11 featured talk and CCC'11. (PDF, older version)
• G. Scarpa. Network Games with Quantum Strategies.
  In Proceedings of QuantumComm 2009, pp.74-81. (PDF)
• G. Scarpa. Network Games con Strategie Quantistiche.
  Master's thesis, in Italian. (PDF)

Talks and Posters

Here is a list of given talks and presented posters:

• The Rank-1 Quantum Chromatic Number.
  Poster at QIP2012. December 2011, Montreal, Canada. (PDF)
• Introduction to Quantum Computing.
  Invited talk at Computing 2011. October 2011, Karlsruhe, Germany.
• Near-Optimal and Explicit Bell Inequality Violations.
  CCC 2011. June 2011, San Jose, California.
• Near-Optimal and Explicit Bell Inequality Violations.
  QIP 2011. January 2011, Singapore. (video)
• Network Games with Quantum Strategies.
  QuantumComm 2009. October 2009, Vico Equense, Naples, Italy.

Teaching

I have been teaching assistant for the following courses:

• Combinatorics with computer science applications, University of Amsterdam, Spring 2012. (website)
• Quantum Computing, University of Amsterdam, Spring 2011. (website)

Fun stuff

I have two elder brothers. The first one is a catholic priest and lives in Sicily, the second one is a movie and theater director and lives in Los Angeles. He made a short movie about this.

I also made some short movies for fun. Here's my favorite (in Italian):

• Serial Killer. (youtube)

I wrote some short stories (of course, in Italian):

• Spyvorce. (PDF)
• Semplice questione di scelta. (PDF)
  This is an experimental story. I and my fiancé wrote one line each. I was trying to make it a thriller, she was trying to make it a love story. We both failed. Or not.

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