Steering Committee Chair

• Jozef Gruska (Masaryk U, Czech Republic)

Conference Chairs

• Guang-Can Guo (USTC, China)
• Shi-Qun Zhu (Soochow U, China)

Conference Co-Chairs

• Hiroshi Imai (Tokyo U, Japan)
• Jaewan Kim (KIAS, Korea)

Keynote Speakers and Invited Speakers

• Markus Aspelmeyer (Vienna U, Austria)
• Fernando Brandao (NUS, Singapore)
• David DiVincenzo (RWTH, Germany)
• Charles Marcus (Harvard U, USA)
• Sandu Popescu (Bristol U, UK)
• David Poulin (Sherbrocke U, Canada)
• Jaw-Shen Tsai (NEC & RIKEN, Japan)
• Harald Weinfurter (München U, Germany)
• Ming-Sheng Ying (Tsinghua U, China)

Organizing Committee

• Xiao-Qin Luo (Soochow U, China) -secretary
• Ming-Rong Shen (Soochow U, China)
• Bao-Sen Shi (USTC, China)
• Chin-Hua Wang (Soochow U, China)
• Shigeru Yamashita (Ritsumeikan U, Japan)
• Sheng-Mei Zhao (NUPT, China)
• Shi-Qun Zhu (Soochow U, China) -chair

Important Dates

• (All at 11:59 p.m. in US Pacific Standard Time, in 2012)
• Submission Deadlines: June 14, 2012
• Notification of Acceptance: July 12, 2012
• Final Manuscript deadline: July 31, 2012
• Early Registration Deadline: August 5, 2012

Contact Information

• School of Physical Science and Technology,
  Soochow University, Suzhou, 215006, China
• E-mail: aqis12@suda.edu.cn
• Tel: +86-512-69157153
• Fax: +86-512-69157387

General Information

The AQIS’12 conference will focus on quantum information science and technology, a new interdisciplinary field bridging quantum physics, computer science, mathematics, and information technologies.

AQIS’12 will be a natural successor of EQIS’01-EQIS’05 and AQIS’06- AQIS’11. AQIS’12 will consist of invited talks, selected presentations, posters, and other activities. Contributions are solicited in the following areas (but not limited to):

• Quantum computation, algorithms and complexity
• Quantum information theory
• Quantum decoherence fighting concepts, methods and tools
• Quantum cryptography
• Quantum communications experiments and theory
• Quantum technologies (optics-, NMR- and solid-state,…)
• Quantum processor and computer design
• Quantum programming languages and semantics

Program Committee

• Andris Ambainis (Riga U, Latvia)
• Almut Beige (Leeds U, UK)
• Charles Bennett (IBM Yorktown Heights) -co-chair
• Gilles Brassard (Montreal U, Canada)
• Sergey Bravyi (IBM, USA)
• Caslav Brukner (Vienna U, Austria)
• Richard Cleve (Waterloo U, Canada)
• David DiVincenzo (RWTH, Germany)
• Runyao Duan (UTS, Austrialia)
• Sibashish Ghosh (IMSC, India)
• Guang-Can Guo (USTC, China) -co-chair
• Aram Harrow (Washington U, USA)
• Masahito Hayashi (Tohoku U, Japan)
• Michał Horodecki (Gdansk U, Poland)
• Kazuo Iwama (Kyoto U, Japan)
• Richard Jozsa (Bristol U, UK)
• Masato Koashi (Osaka U, Japan)
• Julien Laurant (CBRS, France)
• Hai-Wong Lee (KIAST, Korea)
• Hoi-Kwong Lo (Toronto U, Japan)
• Gui-Lu Long (Tsinghua U, China)
• Franco Nori (U of Michigan/RIKEN, USA)
• Arun K. Pati (Allahabad U, India)
• Kun-Chi Peng (Shanxi U, China)
• Simon Perdrix (Grenoble U, France)
• Martin Plenio (Imperial College, UK)
• Sandu Popescu (Bristol U, UK)
• Daowen Qiu (Sun Yat-Sen U, China)
• Renato Renner (ETH, Switzerland)
• Martin Roetteler (NEC La, USA)
• Barry Sanders (Calgary U, Canada)
• Rajiah Simon (IMS, India)
• Graeme Smith (IBM, USA)
• Chang-Pu Sun (ITP, China)
• Shigeki Takeuchi (Hokkaido U, Japan)
• Akihisa Tomita (Hokkaido U, Japan)
• Peter Van Loock (Max Planck, Germany)
• Vlatko Vedral (NUS, Singapore)
• Yu-Zhu Wang (SIOM, China)
• Stephanie Wehner (NUS, Singapore)
• Brigitte Whaley (U Calif. Berkeley, USA)
• Andreas Winter (Bristol, UK/NUS, Singapore)
• Shigeru Yamashita (Ritsumeikan U, Japan)
• Anton Zeilinger (Vienna U, Austria)
• Wei-Ping Zhang (ECNU, China)
• Peter Zoller ( Innsbruck U, Austria)
• Marek Zukowski (Gdansk U, Poland)