From: QCMC2014 [mailto:qcmc2014@ustc.edu.cn]
Sent: July-21-14 9:11 AM
Subject: Reminder: Call for nominations for the 2014 Quantum Communication Award

Dear Colleagues,

Public nomination for the 2014 Quantum Communication Award has been started for one and a half months already. So far merely 1 nominee has been received. In about one month, the nomination deadline (Aug 15) will come. If you think someone is worthy for this award, would you please prepare the nomination material in advance and send it to us before the deadline?

The Quantum Communication Award is a worldwide famous prize for outstanding achievements in quantum communication research: two of previous laureates, David Wineland and Serge Haroche won the Nobel Prize in Physics; three of previous laureates, Ignacio Cirac, Peter Zoller and Anton Zeilinger won the Wolf Prize in Physics. 

Full list of previous laureates:

1996: Charles Bennett, Carl Helstrom, Alexander Holevo, Horace Yuen 

1998: Jeffrey Kimble, Peter Shor 

2000: Paul Benioff, Christopher Monroe, David Wineland 

2002: David Deutsch, Serge Haroche, Benjamin Schumacher 

2004: Richard Jozsa, Prem Kumar 

2006: Ignacio Cirac, Philippe Grangier, William Wootters, Peter Zoller 

2008: Jeffrey Shapiro, Akira Furusawa, Anton Zeilinger 

2010: Gerard Milburn, Masanao Ozawa, Christopher Fuchs, Alexander Lvovsky 

2012: Jian-Wei Pan, Seth Lloyd

Nomination Deadline: Friday, August 15th, 2014.

Contact: qcmc2014@ustc.edu.cn

More details on how to prepare the nomination material can be found either through the link below or in the attachment of this email. http://qcmc2014.ustc.edu.cn/uploads/images/awards.pdf

The QCMC Award Committee 2014

Giacomo Mauro D'Ariano (Chair)

Prem Kumar

Jian-Wei Pan

Masahide Sasaki

Joerg Schmiedmayer