CCCCAAAALLLLLLLL FFFFOOOORRRR PPPPAAAAPPPPEEEERRRRSSSS AAAAQQQQIIIISSSS’’’’00006666 AAAAssssiiiiaaaannnn Conference on QQQQuantum IIIInformation SSSScience 2222000000006666 September 1-4 2006 Beijjjjing Friendship Hotel, , China

Organized by Key Laboratory of University of Science and Technology of China, Chinese Academy of Science Steering Chair: Jozef Gruska (Masaryk Univ., Brno) Conference Chair: The AQIS ’06 meeting is to focus on quantum information Guang-Can Guo (USTC, Hefei) science and technology, a new interdisciplinary field Keynote Speakers: bridging quantum physics, computer science, mathematics, and computing technologies. AQIS’06 or ganized in Nicolas Gisin (Univ. Geneva) cooperation with ERATO-SORST project in Tokyo, will be a Peter Zoller (Univ. Innsbruck) natural successor of EQIS’01-EQIS’05 series of conferences Invited Speakers: (to be completed) and, at the same time, is expected to bring a new quality to

Claude Crépeau (McGill University) this so successful series of conferences. AQIS’06 will concentrate on theoretical and experimental aspects of Guang-Can Guo (USTC, Hefei) quantum information field. S. Haroche ( I'Ecole normale superieure) Jeremy O'Brien (University of Bristol) Contributions for short communications and posters will be ü solicited in the research areas related to quantum Norbert. L tkenhaus (Erlangen Univ.) information science, including, but not limited to: Akihisa Tomita (ERATO/NEC) • Quantum computation, algorithms and automata Reinhard. F. Werner (Braunschweig Univ.) • Quantum complexity theory • Yoshihisa Yamamoto (Stanford /NII, Tokyo) Quantum cryptography • Quantum information theory Andrew C. C Yao (Tsinghua Univ., BeiJing) • Quantum entanglement, Bell inequalities, non-locality Program Committee: (to be completed ) • Quantum error-correction, decoherence-free subspaces Guang-Can Guo (USTC, Hefei), chair • -, NMR- and solid-state technologies • Hiroshi Imai (ERATO/Univ. Tokyo), co-chair Quantum processors and computers design • Quantum pro gramming languages and semantics Hoi-Kwong Lo (Univ. Toronto), co-chair Paper submission : Charles H. Bennett (IBM) Hoi Fung Chau (Univ. Hong Kong) Contributions have to be submitted electronically, see Ignacio Cirac (Max-Planck Inst., Garching) http://lqcc.ustc.edu.cn/aqis06/ Lu-Ming Duan (Michigan Univ., Ann Arbor) for instructions. Akira Furusawa (Tokyo Univ.) Important Dates: Lov Grover (Lucid Technology)  Submission Deadlines: ★ Masahito Hayashi (ERATO, Tokyo) Oral presentation: July 15, 2006 ★ Poster presentation: July 15, 2006 Nobuyuki Imoto (Osaka Univ.)  Notification of Acceptance: August 1, 2006 ． K Iwama (Kyoto Univ.)  Final Manuscript deadline: August 15, 2006 Richard Jozsa (Univ. Bristol)  Early Registration Deadline: August 5, 2006 Jaewan Kim (Korea Inst. Adv. Study)  Registration Deadline : August 25, 2006 Ze-Yu Ou (Indiana-Purdue Univ., Indiana) Jan-Wei Pan (USTC, Hefei) Organizing Committee: Kun-Chi Peng (ShanXi Univ., TaiYuan) Bao-Sen Shi (USTC, Hefei), chair Peter W. Shor (MIT) Gui-Lu Long (Tsinghua Univ., BeiJing), co-chair Jun Hasegawa (ERATO-SOREST) Tzyh-Jong Tarn (Washington University) Contact Information: Jaw-Shen Tsai (NEC) Key Lab. of Quantum Information, USTC, Yu-Zhu Wang (Shanghai Ins. Opt &Fine Mec.) Hefei, 230026, P. R. China H. Weinfurter ( Ludwig-Max.-Univ. Munich) http://lqcc.ustc.edu.cn/aqis06/ Reinhard F Werner (Braunschweig Univ.) [email protected] Phone: +86-551-3600641 Andreas Winter (Univ. Bristol) Fax: +86-551-3606828 Y. Yamamoto (Stanford/NII) Andrew. C. C Yao (Tsinghua Univ., BeiJing)