TQC - 5th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography

I would like to announce about The fifth Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography which will be held at the University of Leeds, UK, from 13th - 15th April 2010.

Dear colleagues,

We all would like to draw your attention to the upcoming conference, TQC 2010,
which will be held at the University of Leeds from 13th to 15th of April
next year, further details below.  We would be very grateful if you would
circulate this amongst your colleagues and encourage them to participate.

 Best wishes,
 Viv Kendon (local organising committee chair)
 Wim van Dam (programme committee chair)
 Simone Severini (programme committee co-chair)
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TQC 2010               tqc2010@leeds.ac.uk
The fifth Conference on  Theory of Quantum
Computation, Communication, & Cryptography
University of Leeds   13th-15th April 2010
    http://tqc2010.leeds.ac.uk/

             ANNOUNCEMENT

               The 5th Conference on Theory of Quantum Computation,

                 Communication, and Cryptography

            ---- TQC 2010 ----

              University of Leeds, UK

             13 - 15 April 2010

               http://tqc2010.leeds.ac.uk

Quantum computation, quantum communication, and quantum cryptography are subfields of quantum information processing, an interdisciplinary field of information science and quantum mechanics. The TQC conference series focuses on theoretical aspects of these subfields. The objective of the conference is to bring together researchers so that they can interact with each other and share problems and recent discoveries. It will consist of invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster session.

As has happened for previous TQCs, a post-conference proceedings volume will be published inSpringer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science, to which selected speakers will be invited to contribute.

Invited Speakers:

• Julia Kempe (Tel-Aviv University)
• Kae Nemoto (NII, Tokyo)
• Frank Verstraete (University of Vienna)
• Ronald de Wolf (CWI, Amsterdam)
• Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna)

Previous workshops:

TQC 2009, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. Post-proceedings: LNCS 5906 (forthcoming)

TQC 2008, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan. Post-proceedings: LNCS 5106

TQC 2007, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Nara, Japan.

TQC 2006, NTT R&D Center, Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan.

Important dates:

Submission deadline: Monday 4th January 2010 (23:59 local time)

• Notification of acceptance/rejection: Thursday 11th February 2010
• Conference: April 13-15, 2010
• Post-proceedings submission deadline: End of May 2010
• Final copy deadline: End of August 2010
• Published: November 2010

To receive announcements, calls for papers, and reminders of deadlines,

subscribe to the mailing list by following this link: TQC 2010 mailing list subscription

To contact the organisers, please send email to: tqc2010leeds.ac.uk

Program committee:

Dagmar Bruß (Heinrich-Heine-University, Düsseldorf)

Andrew Childs (University of Waterloo)

Matthias Christandl (Ludwig-Maximilians-University)

Wim van Dam (University of California, Santa Barbara; Chair)

Nilanjana Datta (University of Cambridge)

Aram Harrow (University of Bristol)

Peter Høyer (University of Calgary)

Rahul Jain (National University of Singapore)

Elham Kashefi (University of Edinburgh)

Debbie Leung (University of Waterloo)

Hoi-Kwong Lo (University of Toronto)

Juan Pablo Paz (University of Buenos Aires)

Francesco Petruccione (University of KwaZulu-Natal)

Martin Rötteler (NEC, Princeton)

Miklos Santha (Université Paris Sud)

Simone Severini (University College London; Co-chair)

Seiichiro Tani (NTT, Tokyo)

Jean-Pierre Tillich (INRIA, Rocquencourt)

Pawel Wocjan (University of Central Florida)

Takashi Yamamoto (Osaka University)

Conference series steering committee:

Yasuhito Kawano (NTT, Tokyo, Japan) 

Michele Mosca (IQC, University of Waterloo, and Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada) 

Vlakto Vedral (CQC, University of Oxford, UK, and CQT, National University of Singapore)

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Siddartha S Verma

An artful River

I'm on my way to Coimbatore for taking an exam. On the way, I was delighted to see a river below the bridge with so intricate patterns of sand. Well, hats off to the Natural Arts. Well, my perdption at this point is not complete and there's no doubt that I don't even have the tiny grain of knowledge about the processes existing there. Well, we may say that,there are few components and processes going on there, such as- stones, sand, water, living organisms, chemicals, impurities, few animals, micro-organisms, fluid dynamics, turbulence, depth of water, fractal dimensions, geography of the land, life and death, ripples and waves on the surface of water, transfer of energy, some unknown and unexplored phenomenon, protons, neutrons, electrons, quarks, reproduction, community and emotions, fear, happiness, hunger, fight, love, excretion, and etcetera.

Well, the list can go on indefinitely. And, this is the speciality of any location in space-time, in this Nature and entire Universe.

This is what Feynmann proposed. Learn and strive to look at Nature from different perspective.

Siddartha S Verma