REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR THE JOHN
STEWART BELL PRIZE 2011 FOR RESEARCH ON FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS
AND THEIR APPLICATIONS
Dear
friends and colleagues:
We are pleased to announce John Stewart Bell
Prize 2011, and ask for your assistance in identifying candidates for the
award.
The John Stewart Bell Prize for
Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications (short
form: "Bell Prize") will be awarded every other year, in particular
again in 2011, for significant contributions first published in the 6 years
preceding January 1st of the award year. The award is meant to recognize
major advances relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to the
applications of these principles – this covers, but is not limited to, quantum
information theory, quantum computation, quantum foundations, quantum
cryptography, and quantum control. The award is not intended as a
"lifetime achievement" award, but rather to highlight the continuing
rapid pace of research in these areas. It is intended to cover
even-handedly theoretical and experimental research, both fundamental and
applied.
The award is funded and managed by the
University of Toronto, Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control
(CQIQC), but the award selection will be handled by an arms-length selection
committee. The membership of the 2011 committee is
Nicolas
Gisin (winner of the inaugural Bell Prize 2009)
Aephraim
Steinberg, ex officio vice-chair
The award will be presented as part of
the biennial CQIQC conference, during which the awardee will be
invited to deliver a prize lecture.
To nominate a candidate for this award,
please email your nomination to Anna Ho, CQIQC administrative assistant, at aho@chem.utoronto.ca. The nomination
should include the name and affiliation of the nominee, a 1-2 paragraph
statement of the importance of the contribution on the basis of which you are
making the nomination and the principal literature citations to this work
(which must have been published between January 2005 and December 2010).
Self-nomination is prohibited.
All nominations received prior to December
25, 2010 will be considered (although the committee will not be bound to
restrict itself to these nominations).
Thank
you in advance for your assistance,
on
behalf of the Bell Prize selection committee