The dealine (March 15, 2005) for the Summer School on Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems to be held at Caltech on August 7-14, 2005 is fast approaching. If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to apply control theory to quantum systems, this looks like an amazing opportunity. The potential agenda includes:
- Experiments and applications for control in quantum systems – phenomenology and motivations for control
- Applications of optimal, relaxation-optimized , and ensemble control in magnetic resonance
- Quantum feedback control in atomic systems: applications to precision measurement
- Quantum control applications in quantum information science
- Quantum dynamics of superconducting circuits and circuit quantum electrodynamics
- Quantum measurement and feedback with nano-electromechanical systems
- Quantum-physical modeling
- Quantum mechanics in the Schrödinger, Heisenberg and Interaction pictures
- Perturbation theory and master equations
- Quantum probability and filtering
- Control theory: from classical to quantum
- State-space modeling; introduction to optimal and robust control
- Geometric control: overview and highlights
- Stochastic control: overview and highlights
- Control-theoretic model reduction
- Frontiers in quantum control
- Presentations on latest research by leading practitioners in the field
Is this conference open to teenagers, and if so, are they going to require that all the teenagers who stay at Caltech leave the door at least half-way open when a male and a female are present together in the same room? I am not making this up, I swear they had this rule not more than 12 years ago (yeah, I’m old) for those summer high school programs. Someone said it was because of the high pregnancy rate of kids who participated in the program. A bunch of nerdy 15-year olds leaving home for the first time to hang out with other nerdy 15-year olds at Caltech and ponder science with an exclamation point… yeah, I can’t think of any situation that would be more arousing.