Summer School on

Scalable Quantum Information Processing and Computing

Benasque Center for Science

2006, June 11 -- June 24

Chairpersons:  P. Grangier   (CNRS)
                          M. Lewenstein  (ICFO)

Scientific Secretary:  G. Morigi  (UAB Barcelona)

During the week June 18--24, this School runs jointly with the Workshop on Quantum - Classical Transition and Quantum Information. People interested in attending both events need to register separately on each of them.

Preliminary list of lecturers and topics

  • M. Brune (ENS, Paris), Quantum computing with Cavity QED
  • E. Demler (Harvard), Quantum simulators
  • R. Fazio (SNS, Pisa)*, Solid-state quantum computing
  • W. Hänsel (Innsbruck), Quantum computing with ion traps
  • R. Laflamme (Waterloo)*, Scalable quantum computer, general ideas
  • J. P. Paz (LANL, Buenos Aires), Decoherence and quantum computing
  • A. Rauschenbeutel (Bonn), Quantum computing with neutral atoms
  • A. Sen (ICFO, Barcelona), Theory of communication protocols
  • J. Wehr (Tucson), Disordered systems
  • A. White (Brisbane), Photonic quantum computing and communication
*: To be confirmed
The detailed program of this Summer School can be downloaded here: Program.

This school is part of the education and dissemination program of the FP6 Integrated Project SCALA. In case of receiving a large number of applications, some priority will be given to students affiliated to groups of the SCALA consortium.

This session has received financial support from the following institutions: SCALA, BBVA, Ayuntamiento de Benasque, Universitat de Barcelona and Universidad de Zaragoza.

Workshop on

Quantum - Classical Transition and Quantum Information

Benasque Center for Science

2006, June 18 -- June 30

Chairpersons:  M. Lewenstein   (ICFO)
                          J. P. Paz  (Los Alamos / U. Buenos Aires)
                          W. Zurek  (Los Alamos)

Scientific Secretary:  D. Dalvit  (Los Alamos)

During the week June 18--24, this Workshop runs jointly with the Summer School on Scalable Quantum Information Processing and Computing. People interested in attending both events need to register separately on each of them.

List of invited participants:

  • J. Anglin (Kaiserlautern)
  • S. Barlett (Sydney)
  • R. Blume-Kohout (Caltech)
  • A. Cabello (Sevilla)
  • L. Davidovich (Rio de Janeiro)
  • J. Eisert (Imperial College)
  • F. Haake (Essen)
  • R. Horodecki (Gdansk)
  • B. L. Hu (Maryland)
  • M. Kus (Warsaw)
  • R. Laflamme (IQC)
  • G. Mahler (Stuttgart)
  • R. Mohanty (Boston University)
  • J. Schmiedmayer (Heidelberg)
  • K. Schwab (Cornell University)
  • F. Sols (U. Complutense Madrid)
  • R. Spekkens (Cambridge)
  • P. Zanardi (Torino)

This Workshop is organized by Los Alamos National Laboratory ( LANL).

This session has received financial support from the following institutions: LANL, BBVA, Ayuntamiento de Benasque, Universitat de Barcelona and Universidad de Zaragoza.