[quantum-info] FW: APS Topical Group on Quantum Information Announcements

[Daniel Gottesman]

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From: gqi at aps.org [mailto:gqi at aps.org] 
Sent: November 9, 2010 4:59 PM
To: Daniel Gottesman
Subject: APS Topical Group on Quantum Information Announcements

Message to members of the American Physical Society's Topical Group on
Quantum Information, authorized by Chris Fuchs Chair-elect of GQI
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Dear GQI Membership,
 
I write to you as the chair-elect of the GQI executive committee and the
program chair of our portion of the 2011 APS March Meeting.  
This coming year the meeting will be in Dallas, Texas, 21-25 March 2011.
 
We believe we have put together an exciting venue of invited talks and
focus sessions.  Please have a look at the attachment and you will see.
There will be some astounding experiments reported, and you will also
have a chance to meet several of the founders of our field.  2011 is a
hallmark year for quantum information as a field within physics  Also we
are pleased to announce that one of our talks will be given by one of
the two LeRoy Apker Award winners for "outstanding achievements in
physics by undergraduate students."
 
I should further mention that the meeting will host a talk from one of
this year's Nobel-Prize winners for the discovery of graphene,
Konstantin Novoselov.  (Andre Geim may also speak, but has not yet
confirmed.)  Moreover, there will be a recognition of the 100th
anniversary of the discovery of superconductivity with a session of
historical talks devoted to the subject, as well as a  Nobel- laureate
session on it.  Speakers will include Ivar Giaever, Wolfgang Ketterle,
Sir Anthony Leggett, K. Alexander Mueller, and Frank Wilczek, and there
is word that there may be more.
 
In all, it should be a more-than-usual memorable meeting, with some
quite wonderful GQI invited and focus sessions.  The executive committee
and I hope the venue will be exciting enough to tip the scales for you
if you have been indecisive about attending. 
 
Particularly, we encourage you to submit a talk or poster on your latest
research.  The better showing GQI makes at this meeting, the greater the
chance we have of increasing general APS awareness of our field, the
better the chance the topical group may recruit enough members to attain
APS Division status, and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, the better the chance we
have of convincing American physics departments that it is worthwhile to
create faculty and research positions for all of us.  Your participation
is really, truly vital.  
Quantum information needs you!
 
      This story shall the good man teach his son; 
      And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, 
      From this day to the ending of the world, 
      But we in it shall be remembered--- 
      We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; 
      For he to-day that sheds his blood with me 
      Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, 
      This day shall gentle his condition; 
      And gentlemen in England now-a-bed 
      Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, 
      And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks 
      That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
 
Please note that the deadline for abstract submission is NOVEMBER 19
(less than 11 days away!).  Please submit an abstract yourself; please
get your students to submit an abstract too!  Please get your associates
to submit an abstract as well!! The place to go to submit and register
for the meeting is here:
http://www.aps.org/meetings/march/
 
The GQI executive committee and I hope to see you in Dallas.  It'll be a
whoppin' good time!
 
Chris Fuchs
Chair-elect of APS Topical Group on Quantum Information GQI Program
Chair for 2011 APS March Meeting





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