2013 Conferences

A selection of quantum conferences that may be of interest:   101 meetings
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• Jan 6–10: 43rd Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics (PQE-2013), Snowbird, USA.
• Jan 7–11: International Conference on Quantum Information and Quantum Computing, Bangalore, India.
• Jan 7–Mar 29: Control of Complex Quantum Systems, Santa Barbara, USA.
• Jan 15–18: Sydney Quantum Information Theory Workshop (Coogee'13), Sydney, Australia.
• Jan 16–18: 3rd International Conference on Quantum Information and Technology (ICQIT2013), Tokyo, Japan.
• Jan 21–24: 5th Winter School on Practical Quantum Communications, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. *
• Jan 21–25: Quantum Information Processing 2013 (QIP2013), Beijing, China.
• Jan 21–Feb 15: Pushing the Boundaries with Cold Atoms, Stockholm, Sweden.


• Feb 4–7: Advances in Photonics of Quantum Computing, Memory, and Communication VI, San Francisco, USA. *
• Feb 10–15: Winter School on Rydberg Physics and Quantum Information, Obergurgl, Austria. *
• Feb 12–16: Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, Benasque, Spain.
• Feb 18–Mar 1: Quo Vadis, Quantum Physics?, Natal, Brazil.
• Feb 19–22: Workshop on the Mathematical Methods of Quantum Tomography, Toronto, Canada.
• Feb 21–23: 15th Annual SQuInT Workshop, Santa Barbara, USA.
• Feb 25–26: Nottingham Workshop On Quantum Non-Equilibrium Dynamics, Nottingham, UK.
• Feb 25–Mar 1: New Directions in the Quantum Control Landscape, Santa Barbara, USA.


• Mar 6–8: Second International Workshop on Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC2013), London, UK.
• Mar 14–16: From Monopoles to Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing, Caltech, USA.
• Mar 18–22: American Physical Society March Meeting 2013, Baltimore, USA.


• Apr 2–5: Quantum Many-Body Dynamics in Open Systems, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Apr 8–10: Workshop on Physics and Information 2013, Paris, France.
• Apr 8–12: New trends in complex quantum systems dynamics, Cartagena, Spain.
• Apr 15–17: Special Track on Quantum Information Computing and Communications (STQICC), Las Vegas, USA.
• Apr 15–17: Photo-initiated Quantum Molecular Dynamics: Faraday Discussion 163, Nottingham, UK.
• Apr 15–18: Quantum Optics and Quantum Information Transfer and Processing, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Apr 15–19: Conference on Equilibration and Thermalization in Quantum Systems, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Apr 15–19: 2013 IEEE Symposium on Quantum Computing and Computational Intelligence, Singapore.
• Apr 22–26: Workshop on Equilibration and Thermalization in Quantum Systems, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Apr 22–29: Quantum Malawi 2013, Malawi.
• Apr 25: 2013 Heilbronn Quantum algorithms day, Bristol, UK.
• Apr 29–May 3: Quantum Information And Computation X, Baltimore, USA.


• May 2–3: Quantum Information and Computation XI, Baltimore, USA.
• May 6–31: Quantum Noise (C3QS), Seattle, USA.
• May 7–12: Coherent Control of Complex Quantum Systems (C3QS), Onna-son, Japan.
• May 12–16: European Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics and the XIIth International Quantum Electronics Conference (CLEO/Europe-IQEC), Munich, Germany.
• May 12–17: Exploring the limits of the quantum superposition principle: From matter waves to nanomechanical oscillators, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• May 15–17: 4th International Conference on Quantum Metrology (QM2013), Poznan, Poland.
• May 21–23: 8th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC 2013), Guelph, Canada.
• May 26–June 1: Quantum Optics VIII (TQC 2013), Jachranka, Poland.
• May 27–31: The Quantum Landscape, Waterloo, Canada.


• Jun 1–7: Workshop on Optical Nanofibre Applications: From Quantum to Bio Technologies, Valtice, Czech Republic.
• Jun 3–7: Second International Conference on Orbital Angular Momentum, Glasgow, UK.
• Jun 3–7: Causal Structure in Quantum Theory, Benasque, Spain.
• Jun 5–9: 10th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop, Valtice, Czech Republic.
• Jun 9–14: Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO 2013), San Jose, USA.
• Jun 16–19: Optimal Control of Quantum Systems, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Jun 16–20: 20th Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Jun 17–20: Tenth Rochester Conference on Coherence and Quantum Optics (CQO X), Rochester, USA.
• Jun 17–21: Thirteenth Annual Canadian Summer School on Quantum Information (CSSQI 2013), Calgary, Canada.
• Jun 17–21: Control of Quantum Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules and Ensembles by Light Workshop (CAMEL9), Nessebar, Bulgaria.
• Jun 17–21: Last Frontiers in Quantum Information Science, Denali Park, USA.
• Jun 18–21: Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM 2), Rochester, USA.
• Jun 18–22: International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics and International Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies (ICONO/LAT 2013), Moscow, Russia.
• Jun 23–Jul 12: Quantum Information, Benasque, Spain.
• Jun 24–26: Relativistic Quantum Information North 2013, Nottingham, UK.
• Jun 24–28: 13th International Conference On Squeezed States And Uncertainty Relations (ICSSUR2013), Nuremberg, Germany.
• Jun 24–28: Tenth Annual Canadian Quantum Information Students' Conference, Calgary, Canada.
• Jun 24–28: Third International Conference on Theoretical Physics "Theoretical Physics and its Applications", Moscow, Russia.
• Jun 26–29: 8th World Conference of Science Journalists (WCSJ2013), Helsinki, Finland.
• Jun 29–Jul 3 5th International Workshop on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, (QuEBS 2013), Vienna, Austria
• Jun 30–Jul 4: The 10th Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Pacific Rim, Kyoto, Japan.
• Jun 30–Jul 5: Quantum Information Processing and Computing Conference (QIPC 2013), Florence, Italy.


• Jul 4–5: Quantenkommunikation Workshop 2013, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Jul 8–10: Summer Topicals 2013, Waikoloa, USA.
• Jul 9–12: International Conference on Optics and Lasers Applications (ICOLA2013), Windhoek, Namibia.
• Jul 10–12: Quantum entanglement: foundations and applications Bari, Italy.
• Jul 10–13: Quantum Theory: Advances and Problems (QTAP), Växjö, Sweden.
• Jul 17–19: 10th Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL), Barcelona, Spain.
• Jul 20–24: 2nd International Conference on Quantum Technologies, Moscow, Russia.
• Jul 28–Aug 2: Quantum Control of Light & Matter (CLEO 2013), South Hadley, USA.
• Jul 29–31: Foundations of Physics 2013, Munich, Germany.
• Jul 29–Aug 2: Spintech VII, Chicago, USA.
• Jul 29–Aug 2: 3rd international summer school on Quantum Key Distribution, Waterloo, Canada.
• Jul 29–Aug 3: Frontiers of Quantum and Mesoscopic Thermodynamics, Prague, Czech Republic.


• Aug 5–9: Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCRYPT 2013), Waterloo, Canada.
• Aug 5–9: International School on Quantum Information, Paraty, Brazil.
• Aug 12–16: International Workshop on Quantum Information, Paraty, Brazil.
• Aug 12–16: Conference on Quantum Information & Quantum Control (CQIQC-V), Toronto, Canada.
• Aug 25–30: 13th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2013), Chennai, India.
• Aug 26–29: Summer School on Quantum Information, Computing and Control (QuICC), London, UK.
• Aug 26–29: Conference in Honour of the 90th Birthday of Freeman Dyson, Singapore.
• Aug 30–Sep 1: 3rd AQuA Student Congress on Quantum Information & Computation (AQuA), London, UK.


• Sep 1–5: Workshop on Applications, Modeling, And Computational Aspects Of Classical And Quantum Stochastic Processes, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Sep 15–20: Quantum Technologies Conference IV: Manipulating photons, atoms, and molecules, Warszawa, Poland.
• Sep 26–27: Quantum-Safe-Crypto Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France.
• Sep 29–Oct 4: Quantum Simulation, Benasque, Spain.


• Oct 3–6: Emergent Quantum Mechanics, Vienna, Austria.
• Oct 6–10: Frontiers in Optics, Orlando, USA.
• Oct 6–12: Noise Information & Complexity @ Quantum Scale, Erice, Italy.
• Oct 15–18: Single Photon Workshop 2013: Sources, Detectors, Components, and Applications, Oak Ridge, USA.


• Nov 6–7: Symposium on New Frontiers of Quantum Photonic Network, Tokyou, Japan.
• Nov 10–13: Hot Topics in Physical Informatics, Changhsa, China.
• Nov 25–29: Quantum Information Processing, Communication and Control 2 (QIPC^2), KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
• Nov 27–28: Heilbronn Quantum Algorithms Meeting, Cambridge, UK.
• Nov 27–29: NMR QIP in Rio, Rio de Janierio, Brazil.


• Dec 2–8: Meeting on Quantum Information Processing and Applications (QIPA-2013), Allahabad, India.
• Dec 6: Optomechanics Incubator, Brisbane, Australia.
• Dec 8–11: Australia and New Zealand Conference on Optics and Photonics (2013ANZCOP), Fremantle, Australia.
• Dec 9–10: 7th Annual International Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Information (RQIW7), Brisbane, Australia.
• Dec 15–18: Asia-Pacific Conference & Workshop on Quantum Information Science 2013, Seoul, Korea.
• Dec 30–Jan 9, 2014: The 31st Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics, Jerusalem, Israel. *

* = Indicates winter in the Northern hemisphere—it's summer here of course!

JUNK CONFERENCE WARNING

Regular readers of this page have reported the following conferences as junk conferences, based on attending and/or presenting at earlier incarnations of them.

waset The waset "organisation" is still targeting our field—along with every other field in academia it seems. See the comments at the end of this post for the most recent experiences; or this warning. Comments from the former include:

In 2012 I organised an international conference ... our list of working group titles has just been copied and pasted for a WASET conference (15–16 May 2013)

The conference is a complete scam. I know I have been on several hiring committees and if we see someone list a paper published at WASET on their CV we immediately stop evaluating their application.

I went to a WASET conference and it was a complete joke. There were virtually no people there in my field, and the talks were completely unrelated to each other. Basically each person got up and spoke about their work to a completely unrelated audience. For example, the person before me talked about boat design, I talked about quantum mechanics, and the person after talked about Halal meat!

Here is the list of conferences to avoid.

appasani. Similarly, the "Appasani Research" Conferences have had extremely poor feedback from our readers:

• Sep 4–5: Quantum Science Symposium-2013 On 'Quantum Information to Communications & Quantum Systems to Qubits & Optics' (PSS2013), Waltham, USA.
• Nov 25–26: Quantum Science Symposium Asia-2013 on 'Quantum Information to Communications & Quantum Systems to Spintronics, Semi- conductors' (QSSASIA2013), Tokyo, Japan.