Dominic Berry Professor · Macquarie University
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Professional activities

Teaching

My teaching extends through semester 1 of 2022. From semester 2 of 2022 through 2026, my Google-sponsored research agreement carries no teaching load.

  • Quantum information: taught and convened Masters courses in 2016–2018, and taught MRes/PhD courses in 2020–2022, including Sydney Quantum Academy students. I developed new introductory material in 2021.
  • Quantum mechanics and general relativity: lectured and convened third-year courses during 2016–2020.
  • Advanced physics: ran the second-semester component of the second- and third-year Advanced Physics units in 2020–2021.
  • Professional physics: helped establish this PACE and capstone unit, organising placements, workshops and presentations during 2017–2022, and convening it in 2019.
  • Mathematical methods: taught honours courses in 2008 and 2012, and Masters courses in 2013–2019, preparing notes and assessments on differential equations and running Mathematica labs.
  • Earlier teaching: honours lectures on quantum information, quantum algorithms and Fourier analysis; first-year physics tutorials; and engineering-physics laboratory teaching at the University of Queensland.

Journal editing

  • npj Quantum Information: editor since the start of 2019.
  • Scientific Reports: editor from March 2015 to 2019.

Conference program committees

  • QSim: program committee chair in 2026; committee member in 2024 and 2025.
  • Quantum Information Processing (QIP): 2016, 2023 and 2026.
  • IEEE International Conference on Quantum Computing & Engineering (QCE): 2022.
  • Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC): 2017, 2018 and 2022.
  • 14th Pacific Rim Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO): program committee member.
  • Quantum Computing Theory in Practice (QCTIP): 2019.
  • Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC): 2018.
  • Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS): 2016.

Refereeing for international journals

  • Physical Review Letters
  • Physical Review A
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
  • Journal of the Optical Society of America B
  • New Journal of Physics
  • Physics Letters A
  • Journal of Physics A & B
  • Optics Communications
  • Nature Photonics

Conference invitations

Selected invited talks, tutorials and panel discussions. See my CV (PDF) for further details.

  • APS March Meeting (Anaheim, CA, 16–21 March 2025).
    Rapid initial state preparation for the quantum simulation of strongly correlated molecules
  • APS March Meeting (Anaheim, CA, 16–21 March 2025).
    Tutorial: Quantum simulation
  • Quantum 2.0 Conference and Exhibition (Boston, 13–16 June 2022).
    New Methods in Quantum Simulation of Chemistry
  • Quantum Australia Conference and Careers Fair (Sydney and online, 23–25 February 2022).
    Panel member: Quantum Software discussion, 23 February
  • 21st Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (Tokyo, 1–4 September 2021).
    Fault-tolerant quantum simulations of chemistry in first quantization
  • CECAM–Lorentz workshop: Useful Quantum Computation for Quantum Chemistry (Online, 22–26 February 2021).
    Efficient quantum computation of chemistry through tensor hypercontraction
  • PRACQSYS: Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems (Hong Kong, 14–18 December 2019).
    Estimation bounds using Kaiser windows. Conference cancelled because of the Hong Kong protests
  • Coogee’19 Sydney Quantum Information Theory Workshop (Sydney, 5–8 February 2019).
    Quantum chemistry simulation: How low can you go?
  • 8th Workshop on Quantum Simulation and Quantum Walks (Perth, 14–16 December 2018).
    Keynote: Quantum chemistry simulation: How low can you go?
  • AIP Summer Meeting (Sydney, 3–7 December 2017).
    Adaptive Estimation of a Time-varying Phase with Coherent States
  • Quantum Summit (Chengdu, 11–17 October 2017).
    Quantum algorithm for linear differential equations with exponentially improved dependence on precision
  • 4th Biennial China–Australia Quantum Control Workshop (Hefei, 25–28 September 2016).
    Advanced in adaptive phase measurement for nonclassical states
  • Recent Advances in Quantum Metrology (Warsaw, 2–4 March 2016).
    Quantum Bell-Ziv-Zakai bounds and Heisenberg limits for waveform estimation
  • International Conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) (Leeds, 13–18 September 2015).
    Plenary: Advances in quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation
  • Last Frontiers in Quantum Information Science 3 (Homer, Alaska, 22–26 June 2015).
    Advances in quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation
  • Heilbronn Quantum Algorithms Meeting (Bristol, 13–14 April 2015).
    Advances in quantum algorithms for Hamiltonian simulation
  • Quantum Simulations and Quantum Walks (Durban, 24–28 November 2014).
    Keynote: Hamiltonian simulation with nearly optimal dependence on all parameters
  • Australia–Japan Workshop on Multi-user Quantum Networks (Sydney, 22–24 October 2014).
    Exponential improvement in precision for simulating sparse Hamiltonians
  • 3rd Biennial China–Australia Quantum Control Workshop (Brisbane, 29 September – 3 October 2014).
    The Heisenberg limit for waveform estimation
  • Aspen Winter Conference on Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation (Aspen, 9–14 March 2014).
    Exponential improvement in precision for simulating sparse Hamiltonians
  • American Physical Society March Meeting (Denver, 3–7 March 2014).
    Exponential improvement in precision for simulating sparse Hamiltonians
  • China–Australia Quantum Control Workshop (Beijing, 5–8 November 2012).
    Universality of the Heisenberg Limit for Estimates of Random Phase Shifts
  • ONR Entanglement Beyond the Optical Regime (Anaheim, 8–11 February 2010).
    Entanglement-enhanced measurement of a completely unknown phase
  • DEX–SMI workshop on quantum statistical inference (Tokyo, 2–4 March 2009).
    Phase measurements at the theoretical limit
  • The Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems (PRACQSYS) (Sydney, 9–13 July 2007).
    Keynote: Theory of entanglement-free Heisenberg-limited phase estimation
  • XI International Conference on Quantum Optics (Minsk, 26–31 May 2006).
    Implementation of multipartite unitary operations with limited resources
  • SPIE International Symposium on Optics and Photonics (San Diego, CA, 31 July – 4 August 2005).
    Qubit channels that achieve capacity with two states
  • X International Conference on Quantum Optics (Minsk, 30 May – 3 June 2004).
    Postprocessing single photon sources via linear optics and photodetection