FOCUS MEETING: QUANTUM PROCESS ESTIMATION

27th September - 1st October 2006, Budmerice, Slovakia

The aim of the meeting:
Experimental capabilities grow to encompass the precise control of ever larger quantum systems, issues surrounding the efficient execution of quantum process and state estimation become very significant. The "testing" of quantum systems may pose to be a major hurdle in the proofing of "engineered" quantum systems in the future. We feel that a focused meeting on this topic will allow the community to pin point potential future problems and flag potential solutions.

Our meeting is a part of a series of research workshops organized within a European Union integrated project called QAP (Quantum applications). The meeting will be focused on various aspects of quantum measurement theory and namely of problems of state and process reconstruction from incomplete experimental data.

This meeting is intended to be a proper workshop with a very limited number of participants. The workshop will encompass European and non- EU leading researchers in the topic. We aim to have roughly 10 invited 30 min talks and 3 one hour plenary lectures. The rest of time will be devoted to discussions. The workshop will also be opened to early-career scientists working in the field.

Organized by: Vladimír Bužek, Jason Twamley and Mário Ziman

Invited/Key speakers:
Emili Bagan (Barcelona), Janos Bergou (New York), Berge Englert (Singapore) Richard Gill (Utrecht), Masahito Hayashi (Tokyo), Lorenzo Maccone (Pavia), Denes Petz (Budapest), Ferdinand Schmidt-Kaler (Ulm), Chris Wunderlich (Siegen)

Accommodation: All participants will be accommodated in Budmerice chateaux and facilities belonging to this chateaux.

Previous Focus meeting: http://www.quniverse.sk/budmerice/