Join QIP: See the World (or at least Canada and Japan!)

From my inbox some annoucements for some awesome summer schools and conferences:

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6th Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information Processing
August 7-11, 2006, University of Calgary, Canada
http://www.equips.ca
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Students and researchers are invited to attend the sixth summer school on quantum information processing held at the University of Calgary. The goal of the school is to introduce a general audience of computer scientists, physicists, and mathematicians with little or no background in quantum information processing to this exciting and growing field.
Quantum information processing lies at the intersection of computer science, physics, and mathematics and concerns information processing that depends on quantum mechanical effects. It aims at understanding the principles of quantum mechanics and how they can be used for computations and in communication. It is an
interdisciplinary area that brings together theorists and experimentalists.
Lectures will be given by excellent communicators and researchers in the area, including
* Andris Ambainis
* Richard Cleve
* David Feder
* Paul Haljan
* Peter Hoyer
* Ashwin Nayak
* Alain Tapp
* Wolfgang Tittel
* John Watrous
* Gregor Weihs
There are no fees for attending the school. Affordable, comfortable accommodation at the University of Calgary is available.
Registration: http://www.equips.ca
Contact information: equips [at] equips.ca
Summer school: August 7-11, 2006
Please see website for additional information on participation, registration, accommodation, and travel. Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers at equips[at]equips.ca.
The summer school is organized in conjunction with the third conference for graduate students in quantum information processing, held at the University of Calgary, August 14-19, 2006. For more information about the students’ conference, please visit http://www.iqis.org.

(note that the above summer school is followed by the Quantum Information Students’ Conference 2006, which sounds really cool and makes me wish I was a student.)
Also

The Eighth International Conference on
Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing
“QCMC2006”
This is the First Call for Papers for QCMC2006, which will be held at
Tsukuba International Congress Center in Tokyo, JAPAN,
from 29th November to 3rd December 2006.
(Arrival Date: Tuesday 28th November,
Departure Date: Monday 4th December)
******************* Call for Papers *********************
The QCMC2006 Website is now accepting abstract submissions.
The deadline for abstract submission is Friday, 16 June, 2006
Authors will be notified of acceptance by the end of the August
All papers will be handled electronically.
Please go to the conference website for details;
http://www.qcmc2006.org/submission.html
QCMC2006 is seeking contributions in a
broad spectrum of topics relating to quantum information
and quantum communications, including:
-Quantum Cryptography
-Quantum Communication Systems
-Quantum Measurement and Quantum Metrology
-Quantum Optics for Information Processing
-Non-Classical Light Sources
-Quantum Repeaters
-Quantum Information Theory
-Quantum Computation
Invitation from the Chairmen of the Organizing Committee
Dear prospective QCMC2006 attendee
It is our pleasure to co-chair the Eighth International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC). QCMC2006 is being held in Tokyo, to celebrate the 20th anniversary
of the initial meeting in this series, with a program that will focus on summarizing recent achievements in and looking ahead to the future of quantum communication, measurement and computing.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee we invite you to attend QCMC2006, and we encourage you to submit papers on any topic within the program scope.
We thank in advance all prospective QCMC2006 attendees for the high quality of their contributed papers, which we are
certain will add great value to the conference.
We would also like to thank the members of the Organizing Committee, the Program Committee, and Award & Advisory Committee for their kindness in committing to make QCMC2006 a great success.
Sincerely yours,
Osamu Hirota (Chair) and Jeffrey H. Shapiro (Co-Chair)
Chairmen of the Organizing Committee
The 8th International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing

and

Dear Colleagues-
This is the announcement and call for papers for the Second Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Control, to be held in Toronto, Canada, 7-11 August 2006. More information, together with a list of invited speakers can be found at http://cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca/CQIQCII. This conference is intended to follow on successful meeting held in 2004, and is intended to bring together the quantum information and quantum control communities.
The deadline for abstract submission is 19 May.
We look forward to seeing you in Toronto this summer,
Sincerely,
Aephraim Steinberg (chair)
Paul Brumer
Daniel James
Hoi-Kwong Lo
Harry Ruda
CQIQC II Organizing Committee