Fourth Asia Pacific Workshop & Third Asia Pacific Conference on Quantum Information Science

Singapore - This workshop is part of an overall effort to develop an interdisciplinary research team in quantum information science with specific emphases on communication theory and quantum algorithm.

Quantum Information Science is one of the most dynamic areas of inter-disciplinary research involving a wide range of scientists ranging from physicists to computer scientists to mathematicians and engineers. The fundamental observation in this field is that any computation is essentially a physical process. The current relentless drive towards increasing speed and miniaturization of computers will eventually lead the computer industry into a subatomic domain where seemingly strange quantum behavior takes over from familiar classical notions. Quantum physics offers an entirely new form of computational parallelism that will make quantum computers more powerful than conventional computers by many orders of magnitude.

Singapore, over the last ten years, has become one of the leading countries in computer technology in Asia and as such it is well positioned to become a leading player in quantum information technology. Any long term strategy/policy in IT will have to include quantum information science as an important factor.

This workshop is part of an overall effort to develop an interdisciplinary research team in quantum information science with specific emphases on communication theory and quantum algorithm. It will have a strong education component. It also aims at developing new contacts with likely users of quantum information technologies in Singapore and providing them with timely updates and briefings on the progress in the field.

List of Speakers
Workshop
Prof. Tony Leggett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America)
H. Carmichael (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
A. Ekert (National University of Singapore , Singapore and University of Oxford, United Kingdom)
K. Matsumoto (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
J.W. Pan (Heidelberg, Germany)
V. Scarani (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
L.J. Sham (University of Califonia, San Diego, United States of America)
V. Vedral (University of Leeds, United Kingdom)

Conference
Prof. Tony Leggett (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States of America)
H. Carmichael (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Y.N. Chen (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
J.F. Du (University of Science and Technology of China, People's Republic of China)
K. Fujikawa (Nihon University, Japan)
H.S. Goan (National Taiwan University, Taiwan)
M. Hayashi (Exploratory Research for Advanced Technology, Japan)
J. Kim (Korea Institure of Advanced Study, South Korea)
P.K. Lam (Australian National University, Australia)
X.Q. Li (Chinese Academy of Science, People's Republic of China)
R.B. Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
F. Nori (Institute of Physical and Chemical Research RIKEN, Japan; and University of Michigan, United States of America)
J.W. Pan (Heidelberg, Germany)
F. Petruccione (Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa)
T.C. Ralph (University of Queensland, Australia)
C.P. Soo (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)
D.R. Terno (Macquarie University, Australia)
J. Twamley (Macquarie University, Australia)
A.M. van den Brink (Riken, Japan)
X.B. Wang (Tsinghua University, People's Republic of China)
P. Yupapin (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand)
W.M. Zhang (National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan)

Event Dates and Venues
30 July - 2 August 2007
Nanyang Executive Center
Institute of Advanced Study, NTU
60 Nanyang View, S(639673)

Contact :
Please direct all your queries concerning the workshop to the following

General Enquiries
Secretary - Chan Chui Theng
Scientific Enquiries - Yeo Ye
Accommodation - Ang Wuan Suan
Registration - Ravishankar Ramanathan

http://www.quantumlah.org/apwqis/index.php?page=home

From 30 Jul 2007
Until 02 Aug 2007
Singapore
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