This is the “kickoff workshop” for a\u00a0proposed Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), created by NIST and the University of Maryland.<\/p>\n
Dates:\u00a0Monday, March 31 – Tuesday, April 1, 2014.<\/p>\n
[Note, this is the week after “Complexity Meets Condensed Matter” at the Simons Institute\u00a0in\u00a0Berkeley.]<\/p>\n
Location: College Park, Maryland (near Washington, DC).<\/p>\n
Web page:\u00a0http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/itl\/math\/quics-workshop.cfm<\/a><\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Invited speakers:<\/p>\n Scott Aaronson (MIT) * (pending confirmation)<\/p>\n Registration is free, and is due by\u00a0March 21. Hotel rooms must be booked before\u00a0March 9\u00a0to get the group rate. See the web page for details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the “kickoff workshop” for a\u00a0proposed Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), created by NIST and the University of Maryland. Dates:\u00a0Monday, March 31 – Tuesday, April 1, 2014. [Note, this is the week after “Complexity Meets … Continue reading
\nFernando Brandao (University College London)
\nSamuel Braunstein (Univ. of York)
\nAndrew Childs (Univ. of Waterloo)
\nNicolas Gisin (Univ. of Geneva)
\nDaniel Gottesman (Perimeter Institute)
\nSean Hallgren (Penn. State Univ.)
\nManny Knill (NIST-Boulder) *
\nDebbie Leung (Univ. of Waterloo)
\nSeth Lloyd (MIT)
\nMartin Plenio (Universitat Ulm) *
\nRenato Renner (ETH Zurich)
\nGraeme Smith (IBM Research)
\nMario Szegedy (Rutgers University)
\nBarbara Terhal (RWTH Aachen)
\nUmesh Vazirani (UC Berkeley) *<\/p>\n