{"id":1730,"date":"2007-11-21T16:30:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T23:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=1730"},"modified":"2007-11-21T16:30:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T23:30:35","slug":"happenings-in-the-quantum-world-nov-21-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2007\/11\/21\/happenings-in-the-quantum-world-nov-21-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Happenings in the Quantum World: Nov 21, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Postdocs, APS GQI quantum newsletter, Quantum computing in Waikiki, quantum chicanery, quantum foods.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Postdocs at NIST: National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateships at Mathematical and Computational Sciences Division of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory<\/li>\n<li>The fall newsletter for the APS <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/units\/gqi\/\">Topical Group<\/a> of Quantum Information, Concepts and Computation is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aps.org\/units\/gqi\/newsletters\/upload\/fall07.pdf\">available<\/a>.  Included is a report on a recent quantum computing conference in Iran, as well as statements from the people crazy enough to run the topical group officer positions.  Wait, I&#8217;m one of those crazies?  Doh.<\/li>\n<li>For those of you quantum computing folks with monster travel budgets, there is a quantum computing conference in Honolulu, Hawaii (QWIKI&#8217;08) organized by Colin Williams:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>\nANNOUNCEMENT \/ CALL FOR PAPERS<br \/>\nQUANTUM COMPUTING IN WAIKIKI (QWIKI&#8217;08)<br \/>\nHonolulu, Hawaii, 18th-20th March 2008<br \/>\nQWIKI&#8217;08 is a 3-day symposium within ICCES&#8217;08 the &#8220;International Conference on Computational and Experimental Engineering &amp; Sciences&#8221; that aims to stimulate ideas on practical applications of quantum computers. Physicists, computer scientists, material scientists and computational biologists with an interest in quantum computing are encouraged to attend.<br \/>\n======<br \/>\nTOPICS<br \/>\n======<br \/>\nAbstracts (by ___15th December___) are solicited on topics such as:<br \/>\nQuantum Phenomena:<br \/>\n&#8211; Entanglement in bulk materials<br \/>\n&#8211; Quantum effects in meta-materials<br \/>\n&#8211; Domain formation in quantum systems<br \/>\nQuantum Hardware:<br \/>\n&#8211; General purpose quantum computers<br \/>\n&#8211; Special purpose quantum simulators<br \/>\n&#8211; Nanomaterial and nanodevice simulators<br \/>\nQuantum Algorithms:<br \/>\n&#8211; Quantum simulation<br \/>\n&#8211; Quantum image, signal &amp; data processing<br \/>\n&#8211; Quantum numerical integration and differential equation solving<br \/>\nTheory:<br \/>\n&#8211; Theory of quantum simulation<br \/>\n&#8211; Theory of quantum image processing<br \/>\n&#8211; Using decoherence &amp; noise constructively<br \/>\n&#8211; Exploiting POVMs<br \/>\n&#8211; Novel techniques in quantum algorithms<br \/>\n&#8211; Specialized quantum architectures<br \/>\n&#8211; Error avoidance, mitigation &amp; correction<br \/>\nTechniques:<br \/>\n&#8211; Arbitrary state preparation<br \/>\n&#8211; Quantum random walks<br \/>\n&#8211; Fast quantum transforms<br \/>\n==========<br \/>\nSUBMISSION<br \/>\n==========<br \/>\nSubmit a 1 page abstract, or an extended abstract (up to 6 pages), via the web at http:\/\/submission.techscience.com\/icces08\/login.asp by 15th December 2007 and email Colin.P.Williams[insert at symbol here]jpl.nasa.gov stating your desire to attend the QWIKI&#8217;08 symposium.<br \/>\n=================================================<br \/>\nCONFERENCE \/ SYMPOSIA DETAILS &amp; AUTHOR GUIDELINES<br \/>\n=================================================<br \/>\nConference\/Symposia Details &amp; Author Guidelines Available at: <a href=\"http:\/\/icces.org\/\">http:\/\/icces.org\/<\/a><br \/>\n================<br \/>\nREGISTRATION FEE<br \/>\n================<br \/>\nRegistration Fee: US$600 for each participant (+ US$200 for each accompanying person). QWIKI&#8217;08 attendees must register for the full ICCES&#8217;08 conference via the registration web-page at http:\/\/submission.techscience.com\/icces08\/login.asp. Registration gives you access to all the ICCES&#8217;08 sessions &amp; symposia, a welcome reception, banquet, and refreshments.<br \/>\n=============================<br \/>\nSPECIAL RATE CONFERENCE HOTEL<br \/>\n=============================<br \/>\nA special rate of US$149 per night per room (book by 15th Dec to guarantee this rate) has been arranged with the conference hotel:<br \/>\nMarriott Hotel Waikiki Beach and Spa<br \/>\n2552 Kalakaua Avenue<br \/>\nHonolulu &#8211; Oahu, Hawaii 96815 USA<br \/>\nPhone: 1-808-922-6611 \/Fax: 1-808-921-5255<br \/>\nToll-free: 1-800-367-5370<br \/>\nwebsite:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/hnlmc-waikiki-beach-marriott-resort-and-spa\/\">http:\/\/marriott.com\/hotels\/travel\/hnlmc-waikiki-beach-marriott-resort-and-spa\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Uncertain Chad asks for examples of Quantum Chicanery.<\/li>\n<li>Nestle uses <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2007-11-nestle-quantum-mechanics-optimize-food.html\">quantum theory to optimize food taste, texture, nutrition<\/a>.  Mmm, quantum cookies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Postdocs, APS GQI quantum newsletter, Quantum computing in Waikiki, quantum chicanery, quantum foods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[63,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum","category-quantum-computing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}