QCSS 05 IST-Sponsored Summer School

Compelling applications for quantum control have been noted and have motivated seminal studies in such wide-ranging fields as chemistry, metrology, optical networking and quantum computing.

Bringing together control theorists, experimentalists, and theoretical physicists is the aim of QCSS 05, an IST-sponsored summer school that will be held at Caltech from August 8 - 14, 2005. Applications are being accepted from graduate students, post-docs, and senior researchers; deadline for application is March 15.

We have three primary goals for this 2005 summer school. This first is to foster an understanding among control theorists of applications-driven needs for methods to design control schemes and of the practical constraints on their implementation.The second is to build an appreciation among experimentalists and theoretical physicists for the range and utility of analysis/design methods from control theory. The third is to begin developing unifying conceptual and mathematical languages for quantum control.

Given the vertically integrated nature of this agenda, we are planning an event that will be of interest both to students and senior researchers. Tutorial lectures will be integrated with research presentations, and enrollment is open to interested senior researchers who would come only to listen and discuss without presenting.

Where: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA.

When: August 8 through 14, 2005.

Deadline: Applications are being accepted from graduate students, post-docs, and senior researchers; deadline for application is March 15, 2005.

Website: Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems