CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 2nd International Workshop on Quantum Programming Languages (QPL2004) July 12-13, 2004, Turku, Finland Affiliated with LICS 2004 http://quasar.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~selinger/qpl2004/ * * * Registration for this workshop is now available, please see below for registration information and a list of talks. OVERVIEW: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on mathematical formalisms and programming languages for quantum computing. In the last few years, there has been a growing interest in logical tools, languages, and semantical methods for analyzing quantum computation. These foundational approaches complement the more mainstream research in quantum computation which emphasizes algorithms and complexity theory. Possible topics include the syntax and semantics of quantum programming languages, new paradigms for quantum programming, specification of quantum algorithms, higher-order quantum computation, quantum data types, reversible computation, axiomatic approaches to quantum computation, concurrent and distributed quantum computation, compilation of quantum programs, semantical methods in quantum information theory, and categorical models for quantum computation. The first workshop in this series was held June 15-16, 2003, in Ottawa, Canada. REGISTRATION: Registration and local arrangements will be handled through the LICS 2004 main conference (http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/als/lics/lics04/). There will be a small fee for attending the workshop, which will cover lunch, coffee, and the informal proceedings. INVITED SPEAKER: * Richard Jozsa (Bristol): "On the structure of quantum algorithms and the role of classical mathematics" CONTRIBUTED TALKS: * Samson Abramsky, Ross Duncan: "A categorical quantum logic" * Pablo Arrighi, Gilles Dowek: "Operational semantics for formal tensorial calculus" * Alexandru Baltag, Sonja Smets: "A dynamic logic for quantum programming" * Bob Coecke: "Quantum, concretely, abstractly" * Ellie D'Hondt, Prakash Panangaden: "Quantum weakest preconditions" * Simon Gay, Rajagopal Nagarajan: "Communicating quantum processes" * Philippe Jorrand, Marie Lalire: "A process algebraic approach to concurrent and distributed quantum computation: operational semantics" * Peter Selinger: "Towards a semantics for higher-order quantum computation" * K. M. Svore, A. W. Cross, A. V. Aho, I. L. Chuang, S. A. Edwards, I. L. Markov: "Toward a software architecture for quantum computing design tools" * Benoit Valiron: "Quantum typing" * Paolo Zuliani: "Non-deterministic quantum programming" PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Prakash Panangaden (McGill) Peter Selinger (Ottawa) CONTACT INFORMATION: Organizer: Peter Selinger Department of Mathematics and Statistics University of Ottawa, Canada Email: selinger@mathstat.uottawa.ca CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://quasar.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~selinger/qpl2004/ (revised May 29, 2004)