QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

This workshop focuses on the role of causal structure in quantum physics. Quantum theorists often assume a fixed background causal structure, but even in this context correlations exhibited between regions that are causally-related are treated differently from those that are exhibited between regions that are merely connected by a common cause. For instance, quantum information processing concerns the former, while quantum entanglement concerns the latter.

We would like to draw your attention to the 22nd International Laser Physics Workshops (LPHYS'13) which will be held from July 15 to July 19, 2013 in the city of Prague, Czech Republic.
The conference takes place annually at various world locations and the participants typically come from over 30 countries. This year about 400 attendees are expected.

With great pleasure we would like to announce our upcoming Quantum Effects in Biological Systems Workshop 2013, which will be held between 29. June – 3. July 2013 in Vienna, Austria.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together leading researchers in the fields of quantum information and quantum optics & materials science, and to educate and update the participating scientific community on the recent developments-both theoretical and experimental-in the fields of `Quantum computation and simulation', `Topological quantum codes', and `Integrated quantum systems'. The speakers will address, among others, the following questions:

We are happy to inform you that the 10th Central European Quantum Information Processing workshop
(CEQIP 2013) will be organized in Valtice chateaux (part of UNESCO heritage area, Czech Republic)
at the beginning of June (05-09/06/2013). Registration and submission are now open.

Do not miss the friendly and relaxed scientific atmosphere with a traditionally rich social program including
conference trip (optional bike tour this year), wine tasting and "quantum" cipher game.

The goal of this workshop is to present and discuss recent developments in the overlap area between quantum information and foundations of quantum mechanics. The workshop is centered around, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Quantum logic beyond Birkhoff and von Neumann
• Contextuality and non-locality of quantum mechanics
• Measurement-based quantum computation
• Quantum mechanics and category theory
• QM foundations and cryptography

The 15 Annual SQuInT Workshop will be hosted by the Center for Quantum Information and Control (CQuIC).

Dear colleague,

This is the 2nd announcement of the Intensive month on OPERATOR ALGEBRA AND QUANTUM INFORMATION (*),
which will be held at Instituto de Ciencias Matemáticas (ICMAT, Madrid) from June 14 till July 12, 2013.

You may find all the necessary information in the following website http://www.icmat.es/NTHA/RT-OAM/QI/index.html

It has become increasingly appreciated in recent years that entirely new states of matter can be formed
which originate from the entanglement of spin and orbital degrees of freedom. Beyond the prominent
example of topological band insulators, this motif has repeated itself across a variety of underlying electronic
states resulting e.g. in the emergence of skyrmion lattices in the chiral metal MnSi, multiferroics,
or unconventional Mott physics in 5d transition metal oxides such as the Iridates. The aim of this program