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SQuInT 2007

My very favorite conference, the 9th anual SQuInT worshop, is going to be held at Caltech in February. Whoop, we can have quantum margaritas! Here is the announcement:

The Ninth Annual Workshop of Southwest Quantum Information and Technology (SQuInT) with be held on the Caltech campus, Pasadena CA, Februrary 16-18, 2007.
Invited Speakers:
Brian DeMarco (University of Illinois)
Dirk Bouwmeester (UC Santa Barbara)
Renato Renner (Cambridge)
Peter Zoller (Innsbruck)
Invited Tutorials:
Navin Khaneja (Harvard) “Quantum Control Theory”
Second Tutorial – TBA
The workshop web homepage is now available at
http://qmc.phys.unm.edu:16080/SQuInT/SQuInT07/
ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 15.
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: January 22.

Note that researchers from outside of the network need to contact one of the organizers if they wish to attend (see the registration webpage).

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Canadian Quantum Computing Dollars

University of Waterloo moves one step closer to taking over the quantum world and wins a 18 million dollar grant. Even in Canadian dollars thats a lot of moolah. Congrats to the Waterlooans, who, it seems will be getting a new centre (which is something like a “center” but might also be a lookout.)

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Benasque 2007

A workshop in the beautiful Pyrenees anyone? Can life get any better for a quantum computing scientist than spending time in the mountains doing quantum information science?

BENASQUE 2007
Dear Colleague,
We are pleased to inform you that following a very successful editions of Benasque 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005 we are organizing another workshop of the similar type in June 2007. This is to invite you to apply using
the electronic form that you can find on the website specified below. We encourage you to apply as soon as
possible and not later than the end of March 2007. The number of participants at the Benasque Centre at any given time is limited to about 50. We will do our best to accommodate most of the applicants, however, in some cases we may be unable to find suitable time slots for all of them, i.e. we cannot guarantee acceptance. Budget permitting, we expect to offer a modest allowance to some participants. Preference will be given to those staying for the whole
duration of the workshop.
We do hope to see you in Benasque next year!
Ignacio Cirac and Artur Ekert
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BENASQUE 2007
Title: Quantum Information
Venue: Benasque in the Spanish Pyrenees.
Date: The 3 week period 10– 29 June 2007.
Website: http://sophia.ecm.ub.es/
Registers at: http://benasque.ecm.ub.es/2007qi/2007qi.htm
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Got quant-ph?

I just noticed that the project to supply the arxiv as a single file has moved beyond covering hep-th and now includes quant-ph and gr-qc. Sweet! Closer and closer to all of physics on my harddrive.

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This Post Written Tomorrow

John Cramer, inventor of the transcational interpretation of quantum theory (not to be confused with transactions in software or hardware, although you may be surprised to learn that they aren’t totally unrelated! ) is apparently going to try (here at UW) to see if there is any juice behind his interpretation by looking for possible violations of quantum theory in the form of retrocasual signals. In related news Andrew Steane has an intriguing paper out on foundational questions where he pursues ideas similar to the transactional interpetation (quant-ph/0611047). Me? I love the transaction interpretation because mucking with time really makes my head spin (and time is such a strange, strange beast!)

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IQING 5 Registration Open

Michael Bremner writes that registration for IQING 5 is now open (new website: http://iqoqi003.uibk.ac.at/users/x22440/IQING5)

The fifth Informal Quantum INformation Gathering (IQING 5) is taking place in Innsbruck on April 11 – 14 2007. IQING 5 will bring together young researchers working in the field of quantum information science so that they can discuss their research in an informal environment.
Junior postdocs, PhD students, and Diploma/MSc students working on theoretical or experimental quantum information science are invited to attend. All participants are strongly encouraged to submit an abstract for a presentation.
Registration is due by the 31st of December 2006 (midnight GMT). Notification of acceptance will be given by the 31st of January 2007.
The organizers anticipate that there will be a limited accommodation subsidy available for those who need it.
The organizers would like to thank the University of Innsbruck, IQOQI, QAP, and SCALA for supporting this workshop

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Reed Talk

Tomorrow I’m heading down to Portland, Oregon to give a talk at Reed College. What, you’ve never heard of Reed? Shame on you! Why should you have heard of it? Because it produces an astounding number of excellent students who go on to graduate school. In fact the leading institutions for producing undergraduates who go on to get Ph.D.’s (per capita) are 1. Caltech, 2. Harvey Mudd, and 3. Reed. (For details see this page. At Caltech, 42 out of every 100 undergraduates go on to get a Ph.D., a truly astoundingly high number.)