QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

title abbreviation: NIC@QS13

dates of the conference: October 6-12, 2013

title of the conference: Noise, Information and Complexity at Quantum Scale

place: Ettore Majorana Centre, Erice (Sicily), Italy

www address: http://events.phys.unicam.it/nic-at-qs13/

brief description of the Conference:

The aim of this conference, following up a first edition held in 2007, is to bring together scientists working with stochastic processes in the quantum domain to exchange recent advances in the fields of quantum statistical mechanics and quantum information, emphasizing interdisciplinary aspects and methods.

Topics Covered: Quantum fluctuations, Quantum trajectories, Quantum measurements, Quantum entropies, Entanglement, Quantum computing, Quantum Computational Models Quantum communication, Quantum error correction, Quantum chaos, Quantum devices, Quantum control, Quantum stochastic resonance, Quantum nonlinear dynamics, Quantum networks, Complexity, Quantum bio effects, Quantum Simulations

Directors: Stefano Mancini (University of Camerino, Camerino, ITALY) and Andreas Winter (University of Bristol, Bristol, UK)

Key Speakers:

1. Andris Ambainis, University of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
2. Alan Aspuru-Guzik, Harvard University Cambridge, MA
3. Konrad Banaszek, University of Warsaw, Poland
4. Tommaso Calarco, University of Ulm, Germany
5. John Calsamiglia, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
6. Carlton Caves, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
7. Andrew Doherty, The University of Sydney, Australia
8. Patrick Hayden, McGill University Montreal, Canada
9. Pawel Horodecki, University of Gdansk, Poland
10. Susana Huelga, University of Ulm, Germany
11. Fabrizio Illuminati, University of Salerno, Italy
12. Alexander Korotkov, University of California Riverside, CA
13. Jian-Wei Pan, University of Science and Technology of China Hefei, China
14. Saverio Pascazio, University of Bari, Italy
15. Sandu Popescu, University of Bristol, UK
16. Renato Renner, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
17. Vlatko Vedral, University of Oxford, UK
18. Reinhard Werner, University of Hannover, Germany

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