Dear NCCR QSIT colleagues and students,

you and your group members are cordially invited to participate in the international conference on Quantum Information Processing and Communication (QIPC) 2011 to be held at ETH Zurich from September 5-9, 2011. The program committee has selected an exciting range of speakers covering the diverse aspects of the field of quantum information science and technology. Detailed information about the conference is available at the website www.qipc2011.ethz.ch.

In addition to the set program the possibility is offered to submit abstracts to be selected as hot topic talks held in the plenum or contributed talks presented in parallel sessions. Abstracts for poster presentations may be submitted too.

Registration and abstract submission deadlines are May 15, 2011. Please consider registering for the conference now to secure your participation in this event which in past years has reached its capacity limits.

Prior to the conference, we are hosting a QIPC 2011 School in the Swiss Alps that is aimed at introducing early stage graduate students to the main research topics of the conference. Lecturers are listed on the conference web site. Interested students are requested to apply through the conference web site. Students must register for the main conference too.

We also invite you to draw the attention of students and colleagues to the QIPC 2011 conference and school which strives to bring together leading scientist and young researchers alike.

We are looking forward to welcoming you to Zurich

With best regards

Andreas Wallraff and Atac Imamoglu, for the organizing and program committees

-- Andreas Wallraff

Professor for Solid State Physics

ETH Zurich Department of Physics HPF D 8/9 Schafmattstr. 16 8093 Zurich Switzerland

+41 44 633 75 63 (office) +41 44 633 76 17 (secretary) +41 44 633 14 16 (fax)

andreas.wallraff@phys.ethz.ch

http://www.qudev.ethz.ch/ - group's home page http://www.solid.phys.ethz.ch/ - Laboratory for Solid State Physics http://www.phys.ethz.ch/ - Department of Physics http://www.ethz.ch/ - ETH Zurich

--------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------- ETH Zurich Dr. Ilona Blatter NCCR QSIT Coordinator Laboratory for Solid State Physics HPF E 17 Schafmattstrasse 16 8093 Zurich

ilona.blatter@phys.ethz.ch www.nccr-qsit.ethz.ch

Phone: +41 44 633 36 06 Home: +41 44 844 42 50