Postdoc in Italy, AQIS 2008 Call for Papers, the Register reports on QUEST, and the New Scientist morphs into the No Scientist.
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A Post Doctoral fellowship in Quantum Information Theory is available at the University of Camerino, Department of Physics, associated with the EU project “Correlated Noise Errors in Quantum Information Processing” (CORNER FP7-ICT-2007).
\nThe research work consists in the development of optimal encoding and decoding procedures for quantum memory channels. This should be done in connection with the channels characterization in terms of capacities. Thresholds for fault-tolerant quantum operations in presence of correlated errors should also be envisaged. Basic knowledge of quantum algebraic methods and quantum error correcting codes is required.
\nThe research work will be carried out at the Department of Physics, University of Camerino under the supervision of Dr. S. Mancini and in close collaboration with other project partners (Proff.: Banaszek, Datta, Huelga, Macchiavello, Plenio, Silberhorn, Werner).
\nDetails of the position: From one up to three years contract; salary around 1,500 Euro per month (after taxes); starting date July 2008.
\nInterested applicants should send the CV to Dr. Stefano Mancini (e-mail
\nstefano.mancini ((insert the @ sign here)) unicam.it )<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n- AQIS 2008, which will be in Seoul, Korea has a call for paper out (mmm, kimchi!):
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\nCALL FOR PAPERS
\nAQIS’08 (8th Asian Conference on Quantum Information Science)
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\nAugust 25 – 31, 2008
\nTutorial: August 25-26,
\nMain conference August 27 – 30,
\nSpecial Programs: August 31
\nKIAS, Seoul, Korea
\nhttp:\/\/newton.kias.re.kr\/aqis08\/
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\nKey Note Speakers:
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\nSandu Popescu (University of Bristol)
\nAnton Zeilinger (University of Vienna\/IQOQI)
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\nInvited Speakers (to be completed):
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\nNicolas Gisin (University of Geneva)
\nWon-Young Hwang (Chonnam University)
\nGerard Milburn (University of Queensland)
\nAkihisa Tomita (ERATO-SORST\/NEC, Japan)
\nSuhail Zubairy (Texas A&M University)
\nThe AQIS08 meeting will focus on recent advances in quantum
\ninformation science and technology. This is an interdisciplinary field
\nthat bridges quantum physics, computer science, mathematics, and
\ncomputing technologies. AQIS08 will be the natural successor of the
\nmeetings EQIS01-EQIS05 and AQIS06-AQIS07. AQIS08, by tradition, will
\nconsist of invited talks, selected oral presentations and posters, and
\nother activities.
\nContributions for short communications and posters are solicited in
\nthe research areas that relate to quantum information science and
\ntechnology, both theory and experiments. This includes, but is not
\nlimited to:
\n* Quantum algorithms and complexity theory
\n* Quantum cryptography
\n* Quantum information theory
\n* Quantum entanglement, non-locality
\n* Quantum error correction, decoherence
\n* Quantum optics, NMR, and solid-state technologies
\n* Quantum processors and computers design schemes
\nConference will be preceded by tutorials by leading experts and
\nfollowed by focused workshops and excursions. AQIS’08 will have
\npreproceedings and selected papers will be published in special issues
\nof international journals. AQIS’08 will be a fully open conference
\nwhere anyone can make submissions for oral presentation or\/and
\nposters, as well as to suggest an accompanying workshop or tutorial.
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\nImportant Dates: (all in 2008)
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\n* Deadlines for Tutorials\/Workshops submissions: May 30
\n* Deadlines for Oral\/Poster Submissions: June 29
\n* Notification of Acceptance: July 20
\n* Final Manuscript Deadline: August 3
\n* (Early) Registration Deadline: August (3) 17
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\nOrganizing Committee:
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\nJaewan Kim (KIAS, Seoul, Chair)
\nJae-Weon Lee (KIAS, Seoul)
\nShigeru Yamashita (NAIST, Nara)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n- DARPAs QuEST program is reported on by The Register<\/a>. Producing perhaps one of the most strangely mangled sentences about quantum theory of all time:
\nThis can give rise to so-called “quantum teleportation”, or – as Einstein put it – “spooky action at a distance”, in which effects and correlations can occur at once between entangled atoms.
\nThese rather promising phrases would seem to suggest that DARPA is after some kind of matter transmitter teleportation device – or at the very least a theory-shattering instantaneous communications link. In fact, entanglement theory calls for a normal, sub-light speed communication as well as the miracle quantum one; so this seems unlikely.<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI find myself saying “yes, no, yes, no, yes, no” way to much in parsing those sentences.<\/li>\n
- This New Scientist<\/a> article says
\nWe’re right to be terrified, say physicists. Children generate poltergeist activity by channelling energy into the quantum mechanical vacuum.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Which is about as far from what most physicists would say as I can imagine. New Scientist? More like “No Scientist.” You know it’s bad when…<\/p>\n
The poltergeist paper will appear in the journal Neuroquantology.
\nWe contacted Brian Josephson, a Nobel laureate physicist who is on the editorial board of Neuroquantology.
\n“This looks distinctly flaky to me,” Josephson commented.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Postdoc in Italy, AQIS 2008 Call for Papers, the Register reports on QUEST, and the New Scientist morphs into the No Scientist.<\/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":[64,65,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum-basterdizations","category-quantum-computing","category-quantum-computing-bastardizations"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890","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=1890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}