{"id":4438,"date":"2010-10-19T09:52:15","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=4438"},"modified":"2010-10-19T09:52:15","modified_gmt":"2010-10-19T16:52:15","slug":"john-stewart-bell-prize-2011-nominations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/10\/19\/john-stewart-bell-prize-2011-nominations\/","title":{"rendered":"John Stewart Bell Prize 2011 Nominations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>John Bell Prize nominations:<\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<div><strong>REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE <em>JOHN STEWART BELL PRIZE 2011 FOR RESEARCH ON FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n<div>Dear friends and colleagues:<\/div>\n<div>We are pleased to announce John Stewart Bell Prize 2011, and ask for your assistance in identifying candidates for the award.<\/div>\n<div>The\u00a0<em>John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum\u00a0Mechanics and their Applications<\/em> (short  form: &#8220;Bell Prize&#8221;) will be awarded every other year, in particular  again in 2011, for significant contributions first published in the 6  years preceding January 1st of the award year. \u00a0The award is meant to  recognize major advances relating to the foundations of quantum  mechanics and to the applications of these principles \u2013 this covers, but  is not limited to, quantum information theory, quantum computation,  quantum foundations, quantum cryptography, and quantum control. \u00a0The  award is not intended as a &#8220;lifetime achievement&#8221; award, but rather to  highlight the continuing rapid pace of research in these areas. \u00a0It is  intended to cover even-handedly theoretical and experimental research,  both fundamental and applied.<\/div>\n<div>The  award is funded and managed by the University of Toronto, Centre for  Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC), but the award selection  will be handled by an arms-length selection committee. \u00a0The membership  of the 2011 committee is<\/div>\n<div>Alain Aspect<\/div>\n<div>Nicolas Gisin (winner of the inaugural Bell Prize 2009)<\/div>\n<div>Aephraim Steinberg,\u00a0<em>ex officio<\/em> vice-chair<\/div>\n<div>John Preskill<\/div>\n<div>Peter Zoller chair<\/div>\n<div>The  award will be presented as part of the\u00a0biennial CQIQC conference,  during which\u00a0the awardee will be invited to deliver a\u00a0prize lecture.<\/div>\n<div>To nominate a candidate for this award, please email your nomination to Anna Ho, CQIQC administrative assistant, at aho [atatat] chem.utoronto.ca<a href=\"mailto:aho@chem.utoronto.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>.\u00a0  The nomination should include the name and affiliation of the nominee, a  1-2 paragraph statement of the importance of the contribution on the  basis of which you are making the nomination and the principal  literature citations to this work (which must have been published  between January 2005 and December 2010). Self-nomination is prohibited.<\/div>\n<div>All  nominations received prior to December 25, 2010 will be considered  (although the committee will not be bound to restrict itself to these  nominations).<\/div>\n<div>Thank you in advance for your assistance,<\/div>\n<div>Peter Zoller<\/div>\n<div>on behalf of the Bell Prize selection committee<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Bell Prize nominations: REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE JOHN STEWART BELL PRIZE 2011 FOR RESEARCH ON FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS Dear friends and colleagues: We are pleased to announce John Stewart Bell Prize 2011, and ask for your assistance in identifying candidates for the award. The\u00a0John Stewart Bell Prize for &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2010\/10\/19\/john-stewart-bell-prize-2011-nominations\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;John Stewart Bell Prize 2011 Nominations&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[63,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quantum","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\/4438","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=4438"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4438\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}