The scientific program of the School includes the following set of lectures:
* Rainer Blatt (Innsbruck): Quantum Information Science with Trapped Ions.
* Ignacio Cirac (Munich): A Quantum Information Perspective of Quantum Many-Body Systems.
* Daniel Esteve (Saclay ): Readout of quantum information in Josephson qubits: Readout Fidelity, Backaction, QND Character and Entanglement.
* Fabrizio Illuminati (Salerno): Entanglement, Quantum Information, and Collective Phenomena in Spin Systems.
* Daniel Loss (Basel): Spin Qubits in Nanostructures.
* John Martinis (Santa Barbara): Superconducting Phase Qubits: Qudits, Arbitrary Photon States, and Bell's Inequality.
* Thierry Martin (Marseille): Entanglement and Noise in Nanoscale Devices with Propagating Electrons.
* Robert Silbey (MIT): Energy and Charge Transport in Molecular Aggregates: The Effects of Coherence and Static and Dynamic Disorder with Applications to Photosynthetic Light Harvesting Complexes.