From: Events [mailto:events@iip.ufrn.br]
Sent: April 24, 2012 8:22 PM
To: dgottesman@perimeterinstitute.ca
Subject: Workshop Advances in Quantum Technology: From Quantum Information to Quantum Devices

Dear Colleague,

The International Institute of Physics in Natal, RN, Brazil, is organizing – from August 20 to August 31  2012- a conference titled: Advances in quantum technologies: From quantum information to quantum devices (organizers: P. Sodano, S. Bose, C. De Morais Smith, A. Trombettoni). Registration on line is open up to May 15 and may be made by linking to the Advances in Quantum Technology: From Quantum Information to Quantum Devices

The Conference addresses recent theoretical and experimental results concerning the engineering of quantum states implementable in selected condensed matter systems, with an eye on the applications to solid state realization of qubits and quantum devices enabling to implement quantum protocols. Particular attention will be given not only to the analysis of the new quantum states emerging in pertinently engineered quantum devices and new materials but also to relevant results obtained in investigations on long distance quantum entanglement, quantum state transfer and topological quantum computation with the aim of pointing to the most promising devices for the experimental realization of these quantum protocols.

The Program foresees a series of minicourses (3-4 lectures of 45 min. each) to be delivered mainly in the first week of the conference and a series of invited research seminars (45 min.) to be delivered mainly in the second week of the conference. Participants are encouraged to attend both weeks and are encouraged to present the results of their research either as a short (20 min.) talk or as a poster in one of the two planned poster sessions.

The minicourses will focus on:

Dirac and Majorana zero modes in condensed matter systems and quantum devices; Superconducting Quantum Devices; Quantum Devices and Quantum Simulation of Condensed Matter Systems with Cold Atoms; Quantum Interferometry; Quantum Devices with Impurities; Topological insulators and superconductors; Topological Order and Topological Quantum Computing; Entanglement in many body systems.

The list of invited lecturers/speakers include:

Abolfazl Bayat, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.

Alexander Fetter, GLAM, University of Stanford, Stanford, U.S.A.

Alioscia Hamma, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada.

Andrea Trombettoni, CNR Demoktritos and SISSA, Trieste, Italy.

Augusto Smerzi, INO-CNR BEC Center, Università di Trento, Italy.

Cristiane De Morais Smith, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherllands.

Fabio Beltram, NEST Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy.

German Sierra, Instituto de Física Teórica, UAM-CSIC, Madrid, Spain.

Gordon Baym, University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A.

Henrik Johannesson, University of Gotheborg, Gothenburg, Sweden.

Javier Molina Villaplana, Technical University of Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain.

Karin Le Hur, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, Palaiseau Cedex, France.

Masud Haque, Max Planck Institute for Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany.

Peter Kruger, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, U.K.

Reinnhold Egger, University of Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf, Germany

Roman Jackiw, C.T.P., M.I.T., Cambridge, U.S.A.

So Young-Pi, Boston University, Boston, U.S.A.

E. Marino, UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

David K. Campbell, Boston University, Boston , U.S.A.

Sougato Bose, Dept. of Physics, University City College, London, UK.

Maria Cristina Diamantini, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy.

Taylor Hughes, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champagne, U.S.A.

Vanderlei Bagnato, University of Sao Carlos, São Carlos, Brazil.

Vladimir Korepin, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, U.S.A.