QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

Talks presented at the first Chist-ERA conference by the invited speakers.

• Raimond Fournier (ANR, France)
  Chist-Era presentation and objectives of the workshop
• Wide Hogenhout (FET Proactive Unit, European Commission)
  FET 2011-2012
   

Quantum Information Foundations and Technologies

• Elisabeth Giacobino (Laboratoire Kastler-Brossel Ecole Normale Superieure, France)
  Quantum technologies: objectives, prospects and challenges
• Markus Aspelmeyer (Faculty of Physics at the University of Vienna, Austria)
  Quantum hybrid technologies: how fundamental research is breaking new grounds
• Harald Weinfurter (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany)
  Towards quantum communication networks

Self-Awareness and Self-Consciousness

• Ricardo Sanz (Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain)
  Towards full cognitive autonomy in technical systems
• Wlodzislaw Duch (Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland)
  Consciousness and Creativity in Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures
• James L. Crowley (INRIA, France)
  Autonomy and Awareness: Emerging views and potential impacts
• Erol Gelenbe (Imperial College, UK)
  Network Self-Awareness and Quality of Service
• Holger Giese (Universität Potsdam, Germany)
  Self-Awareness and Self-Consciousness via Software: An Engineering Perspective