[quantum-info] Fwd: Bell Prize call for nominations -- please help spread word

Daniel Gottesman dgottesman at perimeterinstitute.ca
Tue Jan 10 12:20:35 EST 2017


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From: Aephraim M. Steinberg <steinberg at physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 10:34 PM
Subject: Bell Prize call for nominations -- please help spread word


Dear CQIQC colleagues,

As you know, we will be awarding the Bell Prize again at our
conference this August.  I would appreciate your help in spreading the
attached call for nominations as widely as possible, so that we get
strong nominations submitted by January 30 for the committee to
consider.

Thanks in advance if you can forward this to any appropriate mailing
lists, colleagues, and/or social network forums you think are
appropriate.


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REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR
THE 2017 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 2017 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 2017, 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
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 at the end of August, 2017 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/15-16/CQIQCVI/index.html
)

To nominate a candidate for this award, please email your nomination
to Anna Ho, CQIQC administrative assistant, at aho at 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 2011 and December 2016). Self-nomination is
prohibited.

All nominations received prior to January 30, 2017 will be considered
(although the committee will not be bound to restrict itself to these
nominations).

Thank you in advance for your assistance,

Aephraim Steinberg, on behalf of the Bell Prize Selection Committee




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"Most Important Contribution to Physics:
Discovered a small parameter that justifies most calculations
performed in physics: 1/ego, where ego is the author’s ego."
                                            -- R. Shankar
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Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control
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