{"id":2372,"date":"2009-07-14T12:53:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2009-07-14T12:53:27","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T19:53:27","slug":"quantum-summer-schools-fault-tolerant-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2009\/07\/14\/quantum-summer-schools-fault-tolerant-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Quantum Summer Schools + Fault-Tolerant Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With fast approaching deadlines:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 2009 Asher Peres International Physics School:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Title: &#8220;The Edge, twixt quantum and classical phenomena&#8221;<br \/>\n30 Nov &#8211; 4 Dec, Sydney, Australia<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/web.mac.com\/quests\/PeresSchool2009\/Welcome.html<br \/>\nThe 2009 Asher Peres school provides senior undergraduates and junior postgraduates with a pedagogical introduction from internationally leading scientists on topics ranging from the interface between quantum and classical phenomena through to the role of quantum science in biology and nanomechanics.<br \/>\nThe international lecturers for 2009 are<br \/>\nProf Wojciech Zurek: Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA<br \/>\nProf Markus Aspelmeyer, IQOQI, Vienna, Austria<br \/>\nProf Susana Huelga: University of Hertfordshire, UK<br \/>\nProf Fedor Jelezko: University of Stuttgart,Germany<br \/>\nProf Martin Plenio: Imperial College London, UK<br \/>\nProf Vlatko Vedral: University of Oxford, UK<br \/>\nand the school include lectures from other local lecturers.<br \/>\nThe school can only admit ~40 students &#8211; so register EARLY!<br \/>\nWe cover all the local costs for local accommodation and meals for all admitted students for the duration.<br \/>\nDeadline for online registrations: October 2 2009.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Quantum Information Student Conference, August 2009, Toronto, Canada:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Dear graduate students in quantum information and quantum control,<br \/>\nYou are invited to participate in the Canadian Quantum Information Student Conference at the Fields Institute in Toronto, Canada on August 22nd-23rd 2009: A conference of graduate students, by graduate students, for graduate students. Consider contributing with a (tentatively, 20+\/-5 minutes) talk to let us know what you&#8217;re working on. Registration fees have been waived for all participants, and some funding is available to support accommodation and travel.<br \/>\nFollow the links to register, submit an abstract, or submit an application for participation support.  Abstract deadline is August 1, 2009.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fields.utoronto.ca\/programs\/scientific\/09-10\/quantuminfo\/student_conf\/index.html\">http:\/\/www.fields.utoronto.ca\/programs\/scientific\/09-10\/quantuminfo\/student_conf\/index.html<\/a><br \/>\nPlease direct your questions and comments to the organizers at cqisc2009atgmaildotcom, and please spread the word.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Finally, a workshop on Fault-Tolerance:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: LAFT<br \/>\nThe Logical Aspects of Fault Tolerance (LAFT) workshop will be held at in Los Angeles (UCLA)  on August 15, 2009 in conjunction with LICS 09.<br \/>\nLAFT will bring together researchers with specialities in various fields (computer science, quantum information, biology) to discuss the phenomenon of fault tolerance at a higher level of abstraction with the purpose of defining and reasoning about the general logical principles that transcend specific implementation domains.<br \/>\nThe speakers include Shinichi Kikuchi, Carolyn Talcott, Joe Fitzsimons, Anish Arora, and Fuad Abu-Jarad.<br \/>\nEarly registration ends July 26. Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/compilers.cs.ucla.edu\/lics-sas09\/registration\/\">http:\/\/compilers.cs.ucla.edu\/lics-sas09\/registration\/<\/a><br \/>\nThe workshop webiste is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerospace.org\/\">www.aero.org\/laft<\/a><br \/>\nand the conference website is <a href=\"http:\/\/lics.rwth-aachen.de\/lics09\/\">http:\/\/www2.informatik.hu-berlin.de\/lics\/lics09\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With fast approaching deadlines:<\/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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-science"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","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=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}