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                  August 
                    8-12, 2011 
                    the Fields Institute, 222 College Street, Toronto
                  Organizing 
                    Committee: 
                    Greg Scholes(Chair), Dept. of Chemistry, University 
                    of Toronto 
                    Paul Brumer (Program Chair), Dept. of Chemistry, University 
                    of Toronto 
                    Man Duen Choi, Dept. of Mathematics, University of 
                    Toronto 
                    Daniel James, Dept. of Physics, University of Toronto 
                    Hoi-Kwong Lo, Dept. of Physics and Dept. of Electrical 
                    & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto  
                    Kevin Resch, Institute for Quantum Computing, University 
                    of Waterloo 
                    Harry Ruda, Dept. of Materials Science and Dept. of Electrical 
                    & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto 
                    Anna Ho, Administrative POC  
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            Overview 
            Future developments in the field of Quantum Computing and Quantum 
              control are eagerly anticipated and include the discovery of new 
              algorithms which could efficiently employ quantum computers, especially 
              the relatively small size devices available today and in the near 
              future; the development of improved threshold theorems to determine 
              the requirements for scalable quantum computing; security proofs 
              for a number of the alternate proposals for secure quantum communications; 
              further elucidation of the various measures of entanglement, their 
              relationship, and how they can be efficiently extracted from experimental 
              data; and overall, the continued work on a number of parallel candidate 
              systems for quantum computation, and development of the necessary 
              logic gates and error-correction techniques to bring this theory 
              to practice. 
            Developments continue to rely upon system coherence and decoherence. 
              As such focus will also be directed towards recent developments 
              in coherence and control in larger molecular systems such a nanostructures 
              and biomolecules. 
             
            Outline of the program 
            The conference will involve a mix of invited and contributed talks, 
              and posters, interspersed with coffee and discussion breaks. There 
              will be invited talks, delivered by acknowledged world leaders of 
              the field and 20-minute contributed talks. 
            Invited Speakers
             
               
                
                  
                    Marco Bellini, University of Florence 
                      Charles Bennett, IBM  
                      Robin Blume-Kohout, Los Alamos National Laboratory 
                      Ben Buchler, The Australian National University 
                      Vladimir Buzek, Slovak Academy of Sciences 
                      Jianshu Cao, MIT 
                      John Howell, University of Rochester 
                      Vladimir Korepin, SUNY 
                      David Kribs, Guelph University  
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                    Gershon Kurizki, Weizmann Institute 
                      of Science,  
                      Adrian Lupascu, University of Waterloo 
                      Alexander Lvovsky, University of Calgary  
                      Tomas Mancal, Charles University in Prague 
                      Alexandra Olaya-Castro, University College London 
                      Sandu Popescu, University of Bristol 
                      Christine Silberhorn, Universität Paderborn 
                      Shigeki Takeuchi, Hokkaido University 
                      Tzu-Chieh Wei, University of British Columbia 
                      Junde Wu, Zhejiang University 
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            Contributed talks and Poster Session
            The organizing committee looks forward to receiving abstracts for 
              contributed talks.  
               
              There will also be at least one poster session, during which we 
              expect to give an opportunity to more young researchers to present 
              work that did not fit into the main schedule, as well as several 
              sessions devoted to focused discussion on a number of topics raised 
              during the meeting. The meeting will involve researchers at all 
              stages of their careers, including participation by graduate students. 
              The poster boards are 6 feet wide by 3 feet high, and they mount 
              on poles that are 6 feet tall. Posters should be no more than 3 
              feet wide but can be as high as presenters wish. 33x44 portrait 
              orientation is preferred. 
            This year the conference will feature the award of the second biannual 
              J. 
              S. Bell Prize for Research in Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics 
              and their Applications. The 2011 Bell Prize is awarded to Sandu 
              Popescu of the University of Bristol. 
            List of Confirmed Participants 
            
               
                | Full Name | 
                University/Affiliation | 
               
               
                | Albert, Victor | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Ampadu, Clement | 
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                | Arévalo Aguilar, José Luis | 
                Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla | 
               
               
                | Bamber, Charles | 
                National Research Council | 
               
               
                | Behan, Connor | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Bellini, Marco | 
                Istituto Nazionale di Ottica (INO-CNR) | 
               
               
                | Bennett, Charles H. | 
                IBM Research | 
               
               
                | Blume-Kohout, Robin | 
                Los Alamos National Laboratory | 
               
               
                | Branczyk, Agata | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Brumer, Paul | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Buchler, Ben | 
                The Australian National University | 
               
               
                | Cao, Jianshu | 
                Massachusetts Institute of Technology | 
               
               
                | Chang, Rockson | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Chitambar, Eric | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Choi, Man-Duen | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Cyrenne, Benoit | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Czerwinski, Artur | 
                Nicolaus Copernicus University | 
               
               
                | Darabi, Ardavan | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Dmochowski, Greg | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Feizpour, Amir | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Fung, Chi-Hang Fred | 
                University of Hong Kong | 
               
               
                | Gamel, Omar | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Garmon, Savannah | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Ghose, Shohini | 
                Wilfrid Laurier University | 
               
               
                | Gottesman, Daniel | 
                Perimeter Institute | 
               
               
                | Grinev, Timur | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Hallaji, Matin | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Hayat, Alex | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Higgins, Brendon | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Ho, Anna | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Howell, John | 
                University of Rochester | 
               
               
                | James, Daniel | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Kang, Dongpeng | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Khan, Yaser | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Kolenderski, Piotr | 
                Institute for Quantum Computing | 
               
               
                | Kopp, Eric | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Korepin, Vladimir | 
                Stony Brook University | 
               
               
                | Kribs, David | 
                University of Guelph | 
               
               
                | Kurizki, Gershon | 
                The Weizmann Institute of Science | 
               
               
                | Kyriakidis, Jordan | 
                Dalhousie University | 
               
               
                | Li, Chi-Kwong | 
                College of William and Mary | 
               
               
                | Lo, Hoi-Kwong | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Lu, Dawei | 
                University of Science and Technology of China | 
               
               
                | Lupascu, Adrian | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Lvovsky, Alexander | 
                University of Calgary | 
               
               
                | Mahler, Dylan | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Mancal, Tomas | 
                Charles University in Prague | 
               
               
                | Marvian, Iman | 
                IQC-PI | 
               
               
                | Nazir, Ahsan | 
                Imperial College London | 
               
               
                | Olaya-Castro, Alexandra | 
                University College London | 
               
               
                | Pachon, Leonardo A | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Piani, Marco | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Politi, Alberto | 
                University of Bristol | 
               
               
                | Poon, Yiu | 
                Iowa State University | 
               
               
                | Popescu, Sandu | 
                University of Bristol | 
               
               
                | Potnis, Shreyas | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Qi, Bing | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Quesada, Juan Nicolás | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Rapcan, Peter | 
                Institute of Physics, Slovak Academy of Sciences | 
               
               
                | Ren, Changliang | 
                Hiroshima University | 
               
               
                | Resch, Kevin | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Rong, Yongwu | 
                National Science Foundation | 
               
               
                | Rozema, Lee | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Ruda, Harry | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Sadeq, Zaheen | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Saunders, Dylan | 
                Griffith University | 
               
               
                | Scholak, Torsten | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Sergeevich, Alexandr | 
                University of Sydney | 
               
               
                | Silberhorn, Christine | 
                Universität Paderborn | 
               
               
                | Silva, Marcus | 
                Raytheon BBN Technologies | 
               
               
                | Sinclair, Neil | 
                University of Calgary | 
               
               
                | Smyth, Cathal | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Sparkes, Ben | 
                The Australian National University | 
               
               
                | Steinberg, Aephraim | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Takeuchi, Shigeki | 
                Hokkaido University | 
               
               
                | Tamaki, Kiyoshi | 
                NTT Basic Research | 
               
               
                | Tang, Zhiyuan | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Tavakoli Dinani, Hossein | 
                Lakehead University | 
               
               
                | Taylor, Edward | 
                McMaster University | 
               
               
                | Thanopoulos, Ioannis | 
                National Hellenic Research Foundation | 
               
               
                | Turner, Peter | 
                University of Tokyo | 
               
               
                | Virally, Stephane | 
                École Polytechnique de Montréal | 
               
               
                | Weedbrook, Christian | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Wei, Tzu-Chieh | 
                University of British Columbia | 
               
               
                | White, Andrew | 
                University of Queensland | 
               
               
                | Wiebe, Nathan | 
                University of Waterloo | 
               
               
                | Wu, Lian-Ao | 
                University of Basque Country | 
               
               
                | Wu, Shengjun | 
                University of Science and Technology of China | 
               
               
                | Xu, Feihu | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Yu, Claire | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Zhu, Eric | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
               
                | Zhuang, Chao | 
                University of Toronto | 
               
             
             
             
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