From: Aephraim M. Steinberg [mailto:steinberg@physics.utoronto.ca]
Sent: October-10-14 3:48 PM
To: Sandu Popescu
Cc: Aephraim Steinberg; Eugene Polzik; Michel Devoret; Ignacio Cirac
Subject: Call for John Stewart Bell Prize Nominations (deadline 15 December 2014)
Dear friends and colleagues:
I am writing to share with you the Call For Nominations for the 2015 John Stewart Bell Prize for reearch on
fundamental issues in quantum mechanics and their applications.
This call can also be found on http://cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca/bell_prize/nominations.html
We would be very grateful if between now and the mid-December deadline, you could spread the word about
the Prize, and/or consider nominating a deserving scientist. We hope this award will continue to play an important
role in highlighting and recognizing the exciting breadth of research in this field.
I apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this call.
Sincerely yours,
Aephraim Steinberg
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REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR
THE 2015 JOHN STEWART BELL PRIZE
FOR RESEARCH ON FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN QUANTUM MECHANICS AND THEIR APPLICATIONS:
Dear friends and colleagues:
We are pleased to announce the 2015 John Stewart Bell Prize, and ask for your assistance in identifying deserving candidates for the award.
The John Stewart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications (short form: "Bell Prize") is awarded every other year, in particular again in 2015, 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. Further information about the Bell Prize may be found at http://cqiqc.physics.utoronto.ca/bell_prize/home.html
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 2015 committee is
The award will be presented as part of the biennial CQIQC conference, during which the awardee will be invited to deliver a prize lecture. (The meeting
will run in mid-August, 2015 at the Fields Institute, University of Toronto. The conference web page is under development, but the previous conference programme can be viewed at http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/13-14/CQIQCV/)
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 2009 and December 2014). Self-nomination is prohibited.
All nominations received prior to December 15, 2014 will be considered (although the committee will not be bound to restrict itself to these nominations).
Thank you in advance for your assistance,
Sandu Popsecu
on behalf of the Bell Prize selection committee
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