[quantum-info] Fwd: Bell Prize - call for nominations for 2019 prize (deadline 25 Jan 2019)

[Daniel Gottesman]

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From: Aephraim M. Steinberg <steinberg at physics.utoronto.ca>
Date: Fri, Dec 21, 2018 at 12:03 PM
Subject: Bell Prize - call for nominations for 2019 prize (deadline 25 Jan 2019)
To: Aephraim Steinberg <steinberg at physics.utoronto.ca>


Dear friends and colleagues:

I am writing to share with you the Call For Nominations for the 2019
John Stewart Bell Prize for reearch on fundamental issues in quantum
mechanics and their applications.

We would be very grateful if between now and the end of January, you
could consider nominating a deserving scientist, and/or spread the
word about the Prize (feel free to forward or share this announcement
on any forums you consider appropriate).
We hope this award will continue to play an important role in
highlighting and recognizing the exciting breadth of research in this
field.

Please do share this message with any one you think might have useful
input for the committee!
(Feel free to spread the word about the upcoming conference as well;
and I hope we can count on seeing you there!)

I apologize in advance if you receive multiple copies of this call.

Best wishes for the holidays, and for an excellent 2019!

Sincerely yours,
Aephraim Steinberg

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REQUEST FOR NOMINATIONS FOR
THE 2019 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 2019 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 2019, 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, 2019 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/activities/17-18/CQIQCVII )

To nominate a candidate for this award, please email your nomination
to Helen Iyer, CQIQC administrative assistant, at
iyer at physics.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 2013 and December
2018). Self-nomination is prohibited.

All nominations received by January 25, 2019 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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