International Conference on Quantum Information

September 21, 2010

The 4th International Conference on Quantum Information will be held June 6-8, 2011 (with participants gathering Sunday, June 5) at the campus of the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Quantum information is a new area of scientific interest and development, attracting theoretical and experimental research worldwide.

Entanglement is a key resource for quantum information and quantum computing, whereas decoherence is the main obstacle to building a quantum computer. Optical methods play a key role in many implementations of quantum information. The meeting will concentrate on entanglement, decoherence and optical methods, but contributions from all areas of quantum information science will be presented. There will be plenary talks by Serge Haroche, Ecole Normale Supérieure, France; Paul Kwiat, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA; and Peter Zoller, Leopold-Franzens Univ. Innsbruck, Austria.