Apologies for multiple copies: ========================================== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - QICS Spring School Foundational Structures in Quantum Computation and Information May 24-28, Oxford - http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Bob.Coecke/QICS_School.html =========================================== If you wish to attend the QICS school PLEASE REGISTER. Places are limited! The QICS Spring School consists of extended tutorials on: * Structures and methods for measurement-based quantum computation * Categorical semantics, logics, diagrammatic methods * Classical-quantum interaction and information flow * Quantum automata, machines, calculi Topics that will be covered include: * measurement-based quantum computing (MBQC); properties of graph states; MBQC and condensed matter physics; blind quantum computation; determinism in MBQC; measurement-based classical computation and non- locality; * monoidal categories, Frobenius algebras, and their graphical calculus; (co)algebra of complementary observables and multipartite quantum entanglement, and applications to MBQC; phase groups and non- locality; * classical simulation of quantum circuits; categorical topological quantum computation; graphical calculus for measurements and channels; generalized probabilistic theories; convex operational models and non- locality; * quantum cellular automata (QCA); QCAs and causality; higher types in quantum computing; quantum logics and quantum machines; colagebraic methods; Confirmed lecturers: Samson Abramsky (Oxford), Pablo Arrighi (Grenoble), Howard Barnum (Perimeter), Jonathan Barrett (Bristol, TBC), Dan Browne (UCL - London), Bob Coecke (Oxford), Ross Duncan (Oxford), Bill Edwards (Oxford), Joe Fitzsimons (Oxford), Ottfried Gühne (Innsbruck), Chris Heunen (Oxford), Peter Hines (York), Richard Jozsa (Cambridge), Aleks Kissinger (Oxford), Akimasa Miyake (Perimeter), Prakash Panangaden (McGill), Simon Perdrix (Grenoble), Sandu Popescu (Bristol), Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Oxford), Peter Selinger (Dalhousie), Maarten van den Nest (Max-Planck), Jamie Vicary (Oxford), Reinhard F. Werner (Hannover), Andreas Winter (Bristol). A full schedule is available on the school webpage: http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Bob.Coecke/QICS_School.html The QICS Spring immediately precedes the Quantum Physics and Logic workshop, happening at the same location. --->http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/people/Bob.Coecke/QPL_10.html FEES and SUPPORT: For students there will be no registration fees; for others we ask that you bring £35 in cash toward the costs of food and drink at the school. We will provide free youth hostel accommodation for a limited number of students. Please email ross.duncan@comlab.ox.ac.uk as soon as possible if you would like to take advantage of this. Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. TO REGISTER: Email ross.duncan@comlab.ox.ac.uk. Please indicate whether or not you are a student, and whether you will also attend the QPL workshop. Best wishes, Ross Duncan Local Organiser QICS Spring School Oxford University Computing Laboratory [For admin and other information see: http://www.mta.ca/~cat-dist/ ]