Perimeter Scholars International

Posted on January 13, 2011 by dabacon

Canada’s Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics (PI), in partnership with the University of Waterloo, welcomes applications to the Master’s level course, Perimeter Scholars International (PSI). Exceptional students with an undergraduate honours degree in Physics, Math, Engineering or Computer Science are encouraged to apply. Students must have a minimum of 3 upper level undergraduate or graduate courses in physics. PSI recruits a diverse group of students and especially encourages applications from qualified women candidates. The due date for applications to PSI is February 1st, 2011. Complete details are available at www.perimeterscholars.org.

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NRL Quantum Postdoc

Posted on January 13, 2011 by dabacon

The Electronics Materials Branch at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, seeks candidates for post doctoral positions in the theory of solid implementations for quantum information. Areas of current interest include quantum dots and coupled quantum dots, photons and microcavities, NV centers in diamond, quantum gates and decoherence.

Candidates for post doctoral positions are also being sought in ab initio electronic calculations for semiconductor nanostructures, including graphene and carbon nanotubes, and in electronic, thermal, and in thermoelectric transport in nanostructures.

The Branch includes strong experimental programs in MBE growth and fabrication of semiconductor nanostructures, in the optical properties of nanostructures including quantum dots, in carbon nanotubes and graphene, and in nanoelectronics.

Candidates should have a Ph.D. in physics. It is desirable that candidates are U.S. citizens or permanent residents, but others can also be considered. Resumes with research interests should be sent to . Please include your name in the filenames of files sent. Applications will be accepted on a continuing basis until the position is filled. The Naval Research Laboratory is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

NRL operates as the Navy’s full-spectrum corporate laboratory, conducting a broadly based multidisciplinary program of scientific research and advanced technological development.

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QEC11 – Save the Date

Posted on January 4, 2011 by dabacon

The Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (QEC11) will be held Dec. 5-9, 2011 at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California USA.

The Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction, hosted by the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST), will bring together a wide group of experts to discuss all aspects of decoherence control and fault tolerance. The subject is at this point in time of a mostly theoretical nature, but the conference will include talks surveying the latest experimental progress, and will seek to promote an interaction between theoreticians and experimentalists.

Topics of interest include, in random order: fault tolerance and thresholds, pulse control methods (dynamical decoupling), hybrid methods, applications to cryptography, decoherence-free subspaces and noiseless subsystems, operator quantum error correction, advanced codes (convolutional codes, catalytic, entanglement assisted, …), topological codes, fault tolerance in the cluster model, fault tolerance in linear optics QC, fault tolerance in condensed matter systems, unification of error correction paradigms, self-correcting systems, error correction/avoidance via energy gaps, error correction in adiabatic QC, composite pulses, continuous-time QEC, error correction for specific errors (e.g., spontaneous emission), etc.

Website with some preliminary information included invited speakers is up at http://qserver.usc.edu/qec11/

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TQC 2011

Posted on December 21, 2010 by dabacon

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CALL FOR PAPERS
The 6th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation,
Communication, and Cryptography
—- TQC 2011 —-


Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Madrid, Spain
24 – 26 May 2011
http://gcc.ls.fi.upm.es/tqc2011/
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Quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography are topics of a new and interdisciplinary field in the intersection of computer science, information theory, and quantum mechanics. The aim of the TQC’11 conference is to allow deep coverage of new and original research on these topics and to raise important problems that can benefit from theoretical investigation and analysis.

The conference will be held at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid from May 24th until May 26th, 2011 and will consist of invited talks, contributed talks, and poster presentations.

The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to:

* quantum algorithms
* models of quantum computation
* quantum complexity theory
* simulation of quantum systems
* quantum cryptography
* quantum communication
* quantum estimation and measurement
* quantum noise
* quantum coding theory
* fault-tolerant quantum computing
* entanglement theory

<> Invited Speakers:

* Hector Bombin (Perimeter Institute)
* Hans Briegel (Innsbruck)
* Nicolas Gisin (Geneva)
* Mio Murao (Tokyo)
* Tobias Osborne (Hannover)
* Umesh Vazirani (Berkeley; to be confirmed)

<> Post Proceedings:

As for previous TQC conferences, we intend to publish a post-conference proceedings volume in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science to which selected speakers will be invited to contribute.

<> Program Committee:

* Mohammed Amin (D-Wave)
* Dave Bacon (Washington; Co-chair)
* Dagmar Bruss (Duesseldorf)
* Andrew Childs (IQC)
* Richard Cleve (IQC)
* Markus Grassl (CQT Singapore)
* Peter Hoyer (Calgary)
* Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto)
* Elham Kashefi (Edinburgh)
* Debbie Leung (IQC)
* Hoi-Kwong Lo (Toronto)
* Chiara Macchiavello (Pavia)
* Vicente Martin-Ayuso (UPM)
* Miguel A. Martin-Delgado (UCM; Local Chair)
* Dmitri Maslov (IQC/NSF)
* Michele Mosca (IQC)
* Kae Nemoto (NII Tokyo)
* Martin Roetteler (NEC Princeton; Chair)
* Miklos Santha (Paris/CQT)
* Pranab Sen (Tata Institute)
* Simone Severini (London)
* Jean-Pierre Tillich (INRIA)
* Andreas Winter (Bristol/CQT Singapore)

<> Local (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) organising committee:

* Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll (CSIC Madrid)
* Alberto Ibort (Universidad Carlos III Madrid; Co-chair)
* Juan Leon (CSIC Madrid)
* Vicente Martin-Ayuso (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid)
* Miguel A. Martin-Delgado (Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Chair)
* David Perez-Garcia (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
* Diego Porras (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)

<> Conference series steering committee:

* Wim van Dam (University of California, Santa Barbara)
* Yasuhito Kawano (NTT, Tokyo, Japan)
* Michele Mosca (IQC, University of Waterloo and Perimeter
Insitute, Canada)
* Vlakto Vedral (CQC, University of Oxford and CQT, National
University of Singapore)

<> Important Dates:

* Submission deadline: January 24, 2011 (23:59 CET local time)
* Notification of acceptance/rejection: March 14, 2011
* Final version of extended abstracts: March 31, 2011
* Registration deadline: May 10, 2011
* Conference: May 24-26, 2011
* Post-proceedings submission deadline: End of June 2011
* Publication date: October 2011

For further information see http://gcc.ls.fi.upm.es/tqc2011/

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QCRYPT 2011 – Save the Date

Posted on December 21, 2010 by dabacon

Save the Date:
QCRYPT 2011 – First Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography
September 12-16, 2011
ETH Zurich
www.qcrypt.net

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Job opportunity in Quantum Information Science at HRL

Posted on December 8, 2010 by dabacon

An email from Richard at HRL about a job opportunity at HRL:

Dear colleagues and friends,

We would like to inform you of an immediate job opening for a staff member position in the area of quantum information science. We are looking for candidates interested in the analysis and design of algorithms, protocols, architectures, and fault tolerance techniques for various quantum information science applications. Specific areas of interest and expertise include the development and analysis of fault-tolerant quantum and classical error correction codes, and the design and analysis of classical and quantum algorithms.

Please let us know if you can recommend potential candidates from your groups that would be available in the coming year and that possess US citizenship.

The official job requisition for this position can by found by going to our website at: www.hrl.com, go to Careers, Current Openings, and then click on job offering 1050.01.

With best regards,
Bryan Fong
Mark Gyure
Jim Harrington
Thaddeus Ladd
Richard Ross

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University of Waterloo Faculty Positions

Posted on December 7, 2010 by dabacon

The Institute for Quantum Computing is now inviting applications for tenured or tenure-track faculty positions in all areas of quantum information research.

Positions are available for cross-appointment in the Faculty of Mathematics, the Department of Chemistry and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo.

Follow this link to view all positions: http://new.iqc.ca/welcome/positions

Founded in 2002, the mission of the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) is to aggressively explore and advance the application of quantum mechanical systems to a vast array of relevant information processing techniques.A part of the University of Waterloo (Waterloo, Ont., Canada) IQC creates a truly unique environment fostering cutting-edge research and collaboration between researchers in the areas of computer, engineering, mathematical and physical sciences.

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CRM Quantum Information Postdoctoral Fellowships

Posted on December 7, 2010 by dabacon

The Centre de Recherches Mathematiques in Montreal will be hosting a theme semester on quantum information in fall 2011. The semester will attract researchers from around the world to participate in workshops on quantum algorithms, cryptography, information theory, foundations, and many-body systems. This series will culminate in the leading conference in the field, Quantum Information Processing 2012.

The Centre invites applications for postdoctoral positions from young scholars interested in participating in the theme semester. These fellowships can be held at McGill University, the University of Montreal, the University of Sherbrooke, or the Ecole Polytechnique. Knowledge of French is not required.

For more information, please visit
http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/~ecrmism/index_en.html

Note that the formal deadline of December 1, 2010 has been extended until January 7, 2011.

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Postdocs at Georgia Tech

Posted on December 7, 2010 by dabacon

Two postdoc positions are available in the Brown lab at Georgia Tech. The first position is for an experimentalist to work on an ion trap quantum computation project. The second position is for a quantum information theorist.

More information about the positions can be found at http://j.mp/brownlab

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Announcing the Quantum Information Science Announcement List

Posted on November 16, 2010 by dabacon

Back in the early days of quantum computing, one could almost keep up with the entire field by attending a few select conferences, reading the arXiv, and keeping in contact with a few colleagues.  Quantum information science (quantum computing, quantum information, and all its related brethren) is now a diverse and large field and keeping on top of everything is very difficult.  At the suggestion of Dmitry Maslov (who is currently a NSF Program Director) it seems that it would be very nice to have a general clearing house for announcements to send out to the community.  Thus this new blog.

So how will this work?  Well basically it will work just like any other moderated mailing lists.  You send in your announcement to .  It gets forward to moderator (currently only me, Dave Bacon, but am considering adding more once I get the tools to allow multiple moderators in place).  Then the moderators approve or reject your announcement.  It then gets posted to this blog, and put in the queue for an announcement via email to the mailing list.  This email announcement list will go out once a week, assuming there are announcements to be sent out.  You can subscribe and unsubscribe to the email list via this webpage.

In addition to subscribing via email, you can also follow the postings via rss (here is the feed) and on twitter (@qisannounce).  If anyone would like to include the RSS feed on their own blog they should feel free to do so.

Comments and feedback are, of course, greatly appreciated.

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