From: Krysta Svore [mailto:ksvore@microsoft.com]
Sent: October-22-15 3:47 PM
To: Krysta Svore <ksvore@microsoft.com>; Matthias Troyer (troyer@phys.ethz.ch) <troyer@phys.ethz.ch>; 'aram@mit.edu' <aram@mit.edu>
Subject: Invitation to Aspen Winter Conference on Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation March 2016

Dear Quantum Algorithm Enthusiasts,

We would like to invite you to apply for the upcoming Aspen Center for Physics 2016 Winter Conference on Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation, to be held March 20-26, 2016.  The Conference will commence with a Sunday evening reception, with meetings Monday morning through Saturday morning.

The application deadline is December 15, 2015. Please complete your application at http://www.aspenphys.org.  The conference website is at http://www.aspenphys.org/physicists/winter/2014/quantum/.

The conference will highlight topics at the forefront of quantum computing and quantum algorithms. The primary goal is to bring together experts from a rich diversity of backgrounds to further the prospect of revolutions in quantum algorithms, and to discuss the key challenges in developing new techniques for solving computational problems on a quantum computer. Specific topics to be covered at the conference include:

• Quantum Algorithms

• Adiabatic Quantum Optimization and Quantum Annealing

• Quantum Simulation of Physical Systems

• Classical Methods for Simulation of Quantum Algorithms

• Quantum Fault Tolerance and Error Correction

• Quantum Hardware Advances

The conference will consist of invited talks and poster submissions.  There will also be a poster award. Some poster submissions may be considered for contributed talks.  Limited travel support is available; please apply in the online application.

Invited speakers include:

Scott Aaronson (MIT)

Alan Aspuru Guzik (Harvard)

Bela Bauer (Station Q)

Rainer Blatt (Innsbruck)

Hector Bombin (Copenhagen)

Sergey Bravyi (IBM)

Andrew Childs (U. Maryland)

Matthias Christandl (Copenhagen)

Lior Eldar (MIT)

Matt Hastings (Station Q)

Bettina Heim (ETH Zurich)

Stacey Jeffery (Caltech)

Robin Kothari (MIT)

Seth Lloyd (MIT)

Peter Love (Tufts)

Charlie Marcus (Copenhagen)

Jorg  Schmiedmayer (Vienna)

Rob Schoelkopf (Yale)

Vadim Smelyanskiy (Google)

Fang Song (Waterloo)

Tim Taminiau (TU Delft)

Barbara Terhal (Aachen)

Benoit Valiron (Central Supelec)

Wim van Dam (UCSB)

Please send this email and information to others who may be interested.

We hope to see you in Aspen!

Best,

Krysta Svore, Microsoft Research

Aram Harrow, MIT

Matthias Troyer, ETH Zurich