QUROPE Quantum Information Processing and Communication in Europe

The QUIE2T-sponsored international conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC 2011) was held at ETH Zurich from September 5 - 9, 2011.

Special events included the award ceremony of the (QUIE2T-sponsored) 2011 QIPC Young Investigator Award (see pictures here), an Industry Session and a 'rump session'.

The conference program included 30 invited talks, 70 contributed talks and more than 100 poster presentations covering a broad range of topics such as quantum information and quantum communication, physical realizations of quantum systems for information technology such as photons, single atoms, ions, molecules; nuclear and electron spins, superconducting circuits, micro- and nano-mechanics, hybrid quantum systems, and topical subjects including cavity QED, optical lattices, quantum memories, foundations of quantum information, and many-body systems.

The conference brought together scientists from 30 different countries. Participants represented more than 120 different universities and institutes including Basel, Berlin, Berkeley, Chalmers, Delft, Geneva, Harvard, Max Planck Institutes, MIT, ETH Zürich, Munich, Paris, Santa Barbara, Tokyo and many more. Also companies such as IBM and idquantique and funding agencies such as the European Commission and national funding organizations were represented. More than 60 participants are leading principal investigators with professorial degrees, more than 200 hold PhDs and about 100 participants are pursuing research toward their PhD degree.

The conference waS hosted by ETH Zurich and supported by the EU Coordination Action QUIE2T (Quantum Information Entanglement-Enabled Technologies) the European Integrated Projects AQUTE, QESSENCE and SOLID, the National Centre of Competence in Research QSIT and the City of Zurich.