QUIE2T Quantum Information Entanglement-Enabled Technologies

The full text of the call is available at the calls page.

The Information Day - FP7-Call-9 took place on 18 Jan 2012 in Brussels and was attended by some ~250 people. The slides of the presentation are available for download from the Info Day Agenda.

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.

We are happy to announce that, by decision of the QUIE2T Advisory Board of Experts and upon approval by the QUIE2T Coordination Steering committee, the

2011 European Quantum Information Young Investigator Award

has been awarded jointly to

Dr. Ronald Hanson

For his experimental work on the coherent control and measurements of single spins in solids, and his proven leadership and independence through the successful establishment of his own research group;

 

and to

 

Dr. Stefano Pironio

For his theoretical contributions to the study of quantum correlations and quantum communications, concerning in particular device-independent quantum cryptography.

 

The Award, consisting of a diploma and 4000€ will be presented at the QIPC conference in Zürich, September 5-9, 2011.

On behalf of the QUIE2T Coordination Steering Committee, we extend our congratulations and best wishes!

The new hompage of the project is now here: http://qurope.eu/projects/farquest.

The consultation was initiated by Horizon 2020 - the Framework Programme for Research and Innovation. The QUIE2T position paper is available from here.

Registration and abstract submission deadlines for the QIPC 2011 conference in Zurich are May 15, 2011. Detailed information about the conference can be found on the website http://www.qipc2011.ethz.ch/.

More details at the calls page.