Southwest Quantum Information and Technology

Tenth Annual Meeting, February 14-17, 2008
University of New Mexico, Santa Fe, New Mexico

10th Anniversary SQuInT Annual Workshop

Santa Fe, New Mexico, February 14-17, 2008

SQuInT brings together researchers in theoretical and experimental quantum information science from around the Southwest and beyond.

The 10th Annual SQuInT Workshop will be hosted by the University of New Mexico, organized by Ivan Deutsch and JM Geremia with assistance from Jennie Peer and Cathy Webster. If you are interested in speaking or presenting a poster, please submit your abstract for consideration as a contributed talk or poster by completing the online form.

Invited Speakers:

Eddie Farhi (MIT)
Serge Haroche (Ecole Normale Superieure)
Patrick Hayden (McGill University)
Alex Kuzmich (Georgia Tech)
Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano (University of Pavia)
Irina Novikova (College of William & Mary)
Ray Simmonds (NIST Boulder)

Tutorials and Pedagogical Lectures:

To help celebrate our 10th Anniversary, we will be holding a day of tutorials and pedagogical lectures on Thursday February 14, the day preceding the main meeting February 15-17. These lectures will mix introductory material for newcomers to Quantum Information Science with some of the details of the latest techniques in theory and experiment, of interest across a wide range of subdisplines.

Steven van Enk (University of Oregon)
"Entanglement and Verification"
John Martinis (University of Californian, Santa Barbara)
" Measuring Coherence Times"
Howard Barnum (Los Alamos National Laboratory) and
Andrew Landahl (University of New Mexico)
"Convexity and Positivity in Quantum Information"

Deadlines:

Abstracts for Talks and Posters are due November 26, 2007.

Registration and Payment Deadline is December 12, 2007.

Hotel Registration Deadline is January 14, 2008.

We look forward to seeing you in Santa Fe this winter.