{"id":6314,"date":"2012-07-17T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/?p=6314"},"modified":"2012-07-17T08:05:17","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T15:05:17","slug":"qip-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/07\/17\/qip-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"QIP 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/conference.iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn\/QIP2013\/index.html\">QIP<\/a> is in Beijing this time from Jan 21-25, 2013. And the <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.iiis.tsinghua.edu.cn\/QIP2013\/call-for-submissions.html\">call for papers<\/a> has just been posted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Submission deadline for talks:      October 5, 2012\n<li>Notification for talk submissions: November 9, 2012\n<li>Submission deadline for posters: November 16, 2012\n<li>Notification for poster submissions: November 26, 2012\n<\/ul>\n<p>The submission guidelines continue to slowly evolve.  Last year called for &#8220;2-3 pages in a reasonable font&#8221; and this year is a somewhat more precise &#8220;up to 3 pages in 11pt font with reasonable margins, not including references&#8221;.  From my experience on PCs in the past (I&#8217;m not on the PC this year, though), I&#8217;ll mention that these short submissions sometimes are very good, but sometimes aren&#8217;t addressed at the key questions that the PC will want to consider, such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> What is the key result?\n<li> How does it compare with previous work on this subject?  And how does it fit into the broader context of other research?\n<li> What are the technical innovations necessary to achieve it, and possibly to overcome obstacles that stopped people before?\n<li> (If the topic area is unconventional, or the submission is about a newly invented problem.) Why is this a good area for people to study?\n<\/ul>\n<p>These are kind of basic, but it&#8217;s surprising how many good results are undermined by not explaining these points well.<br \/>\nAnother feature of the CFP to notice is that authors are strongly recommended to link to a version of their paper on their arxiv, or to include a long version of their paper as an attachment.  The idea here is that if a result is not ready to go on the arxiv, then it&#8217;s less likely to be correct.  There was debate about making it <i>mandatory<\/i> to post a full version on the arxiv, but this idea was dropped because many people felt that this way we might miss out on the freshest results.<br \/>\nA related concern is about keeping the barriers to submitting to QIP low.  Of course, travel is always a barrier, but hopefully we shouldn&#8217;t waste a lot of people&#8217;s time with elaborate submission requirements if we expect the acceptance rate to be around 20%.  I think the current requirements are reasonable, as long as people don&#8217;t stress too much about making a special short version, e.g. by writing something informal about why the paper should be accepted and referring liberally to the long version instead of trying to pack as much as possible in three pages.  But I can imagine other systems as well.  What do you think about the way QIP is being run right now?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>QIP is in Beijing this time from Jan 21-25, 2013. And the call for papers has just been posted. Submission deadline for talks: October 5, 2012 Notification for talk submissions: November 9, 2012 Submission deadline for posters: November 16, 2012 Notification for poster submissions: November 26, 2012 The submission guidelines continue to slowly evolve. Last &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/2012\/07\/17\/qip-2013\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;QIP 2013&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"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":[22,65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","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\/6314","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dabacon.org\/pontiff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}