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Quantum error correction of decoherence and faulty control operations
forms the backbone of all of quantum information processing. In spite of
remarkable progress on this front ever since the discovery of quantum
error correcting codes more than a decade ago, there remain important open
problems in both theory and applications to real physical systems. In
short, a theory of quantum error correction that is at the same time
comprehensive and realistically applicable has not yet been discovered.
Therefore the subject remains a very active area of research with a
continuing stream of progress and breakthroughs.

The Second International Conference on Quantum Error Correction, hosted by
the USC Center for Quantum Information Science & Technology (CQIST), will
bring together a wide group of experts to discuss all aspects of
decoherence control and fault tolerance. The subject is at this point in
time of a mostly theoretical nature, but the conference will include talks
surveying the latest experimental progress, and will seek to promote an
interaction between theoreticians and experimentalists.

Topics of interest include, in random order: fault tolerance and
thresholds, pulse control methods (dynamical decoupling), hybrid methods,
applications to cryptography, decoherence-free subspaces and noiseless
subsystems, operator quantum error correction, advanced codes
(convolutional codes, catalytic, entanglement assisted, ...), topological
codes, fault tolerance in the cluster model, fault tolerance in linear
optics QC, fault tolerance in condensed matter systems, unification of
error correction paradigms, self-correcting systems, error
correction/avoidance via energy gaps, error correction in adiabatic QC,
composite pulses, continuous-time QEC, error correction for specific
errors (e.g., spontaneous emission), etc.