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Workshop on "What's Quantum in Quantum Computing" (Konstanz; starting TOMORROW)

Workshop on "What's Quantum in Quantum Computing?"
University of Konstanz
19-20 May 2005
 
Quantum computing is one of the most exciting areas in quantum mechanics
today, and many people hold great expectations that it would materialize
in the building of a large-scale quantum computer that would perform tasks
intractable for classical computers. Enormous practical problems await
such an ambitious project, yet, irrespective of these, there also exists a
theoretical question that so far remains open, namely ? what are the
physical resources that are responsible for the putative quantum
?speed-up? of computation? Identifying these resources will help us bet
ter
characterize the ontological differences between classical and quantum
theories and to solve some of the philosophical puzzles of the latter.
Unifying physics and philosophy, an answer to this question will most
certainly enhance not only the construction and the implementation of new
quantum algorithms, but also our understanding of the quantum world.

The workshop is organized by Amit Hagar and Ari Duwell from the PPM Group,
University of Konstanz.

Speakers:

Guido Bacciagaluppi (IHPST)
Jonathan Barrett (Perimeter)
Angelo Bassi (Munich)
Caslav Brukner (Imperial)
Shahar Dolev (HUJI)
Berry Groisman (Bristol)
Alexei Grinbaum (Paris)
Meir Hemmo (Haifa U)
Tal Mor (Technion)
Rob Raussendorf (Caltech)
Rob Spekkens (Perimeter)
Karl Svozil (TUV)
 
For more information, visit
http://www.uni-konstanz.de/ppm/Events.htm#whatIsQuantum