ANNOUNCEMENT/CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: --------------------------------------- Joint International Workshop on: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL'08) DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM'08) July 12-13, 2008, Reykjavik, Iceland. http://web.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/work/bob.coecke/DCM_QPL_08.html --------------------------------------- Programme Committee: Howard Barnum (Los Alamos) Dan Browne (University College London) Bob Coecke (Oxford) Program Co-Chair Vincent Danos (Edinburgh) Andreas Doering (Imperial College London) Viv Kendon (Leeds) Annick Lesne (IHS Paris) Ian Mackie (LIX Paris) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Program Co-Chair Jon Yard (Los Alamos) Invited speakers: Terry Rudolph (Imperial College London) Andreas Winter (Bristol) --------------------------------------- This ICALP 2008 affiliated joint event combines two (established) workshop series: QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL'08): This event has as its goal to bring together researchers working on mathematical foundations of quantum computing and the use of logical tools, new structures, formal languages, semantical methods and other computer science methods for the study quantum behaviour in general. Over the past couple of years there has been a growing activity in these foundational approaches together with a renewed interest in the foundations of quantum theory, which complement the more mainstream research in quantum computation. A predecessor of this event, with the same acronym, called Quantum Programming Languages, was held in Ottawa (2003), Turku (2004), Chicago (2005) and Oxford (2006); with the change of name and a new program committee we wish to emphasise the intended much broader scope of this event, aiming to nourish interaction between modern computer science logic, quantum computation and information, and structural foundations for quantum physics. DEVELOPMENTS IN COMPUTATIONAL MODELS (DCM'08): Besides quantum computing, several new models of computation have emerged in the last few years, and many developments of traditional computational models have been proposed with the aim of taking into account the new demands of computer systems users and the new capabilities of computation engines. A new computational model, or a new feature in a traditional one, usually is reflected in new structural paradigms. The aim of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are currently developing new computational models or new features for traditional computational models, in order to foster their interaction, to provide a forum for presenting new ideas and work in progress, and to enable newcomers to learn about current activities in this area. Previous editions in 2005, 2006 and 2007 were also affiliated to ICALP. Dates: - Submission deadline: March 31 - Acceptance/rejection notification: April 21 - Pre-proceedings versions due: June 15 - Workshop: July 12-13 2007 Submission format: Prospective speakers are invited to submit a 2-5 pages abstract which provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine interest and provides sufficient detail to allows the program committee to assess the merits of the work. Submissions of works in progress are encouraged but must be more substantial than a research proposal. We both encourage submissions of original research as well as research submitted elsewhere. Authors of accepted original research contributions will be invited to submit a full paper to a special issue of a journal yet to be decided on. Submissions should be in Postscript or PDF format and should be sent to Bob Coecke <coecke@comlab.ox.ac.uk> by March 31. Receipt of all submissions will be acknowledged by return email. Accepted contributors will be able to publish extended versions of their abstracts in Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science. The workshop enjoys support from: EPSRC Network Semantics of Quantum Computation (EP/E006833/1) EPSRC ARF The Structure of Quantum Information and its Applications to IT (EP/D072786/1)