This is the “kickoff workshop” for a proposed Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), created by NIST and the University of Maryland.
Dates: Monday, March 31 – Tuesday, April 1, 2014.
[Note, this is the week after “Complexity Meets Condensed Matter” at the Simons Institute in Berkeley.]
Location: College Park, Maryland (near Washington, DC).
Web page: http://www.nist.gov/itl/math/quics-workshop.cfm
The purpose of the workshop is to initiate collaborations between researchers at QuICS and elsewhere, and to solicit ideas about research and activities that the QuICS center may pursue.
Invited speakers:
Scott Aaronson (MIT)
Fernando Brandao (University College London)
Samuel Braunstein (Univ. of York)
Andrew Childs (Univ. of Waterloo)
Nicolas Gisin (Univ. of Geneva)
Daniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
Sean Hallgren (Penn. State Univ.)
Manny Knill (NIST-Boulder) *
Debbie Leung (Univ. of Waterloo)
Seth Lloyd (MIT)
Martin Plenio (Universitat Ulm) *
Renato Renner (ETH Zurich)
Graeme Smith (IBM Research)
Mario Szegedy (Rutgers University)
Barbara Terhal (RWTH Aachen)
Umesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley) *
* (pending confirmation)
Registration is free, and is due by March 21. Hotel rooms must be booked before March 9 to get the group rate. See the web page for details.
