2016 Conferences

A selection of quantum conferences that may be of interest:   155 meetings
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• Jan 3–8: 46th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics, Snowbird, USA. *
• Jan 10–16: 19th Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP 2016), Calgary, Canada.
• Jan 10–13: Hybrid Systems for Quantum Optics, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Jan 11–14: Tensor Network States: Algorithms and Applications 2016, Okazaki, Japan.
• Jan 13–15: Workshop on Condensates of Light, Buckinghamshire, UK.
• Jan 17–22: WE-Heraeus seminar on Macroscopic entanglement, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Jan 17–22: 8th Annual Winter School for Quantum Cyber Security, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. *
• Jan 18–29: Joint IAS-ICTP School on Quantum Information Processing, Singapore.
• Jan 19: Quantum Foundations and the Problems of Time, Bristol, UK.
• Jan 25–29: The first Crossing Winter School on Quantum Security, Darmstadt, Germany. *
• Jan 25–29: WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Nanophotonics and Complex Spatial Modes of Light , Bad Honnef, Germany.


• Feb 2–5: Sydney Quantum Information Theory Workshop (Coogee'16), Sydney, Australia.
• Feb 3–5: PICQUE Training school in science communication, Trieste, Italy.
• Feb 8–11: Workshop on Quantum Simulation with Cold Matter and Photons, Brussels, Belgium.
• Feb 9–13: International School on Quantum Information (ISCQI 2016), Bhubaneswar, India.
• Feb 13–18: SPIE Photonics Europe 2016, San Francisco, USA.
• Feb 14–27: Workshop on Entanglement in Strongly Correlated Systems, Benasque, Spain.
• Feb 15–18: International Conference on Quantum Information (ISCQI 2016), Bhubaneswar, India.
• Feb 15–21: Winter Conference on Topological Quantum Matter: Progress and Applications, Aspen, USA. *
• Feb 17–19: The 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology, Rome, Italy.
• Feb 18–20: 18th Annual SQuInT Workshop (SQuInT 2016), Albuquerque, USA.
• Feb 21–24: Thermodynamics in the Quantum Regime, Attard, Malta.
• Feb 21–26: Young Atom Opticians conference 2016 (YAO 2016), Munich, Germany.
• Feb 21–27: International Conference on Quantum Optics 2016, Obergurgl, Austria.
• Feb 22–23: Post-Quantum Cryptography Winter School, Fukuoka, Japan. *
• Feb 24–26: The Seventh International Conference on Post-Quantum Cryptography, Fukuoka, Japan.
• Feb 27–29: 4th International Conference on Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology, Rome, Italy.


• Mar 4: Quantum Technologies and Real-World Information Security Challenges, San Francisco, USA.
• Mar 5–6: Seminar on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura, USA.
• Mar 6–11: Conference on Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura, USA.
• Mar 6–12: Workshop on Nanolight, Benasque, Spain.
• Mar 8–9: Workshop on Silicon and Diamond Photonics, Braunschweig, Germany.
• Mar 20–26: APS March Meeting 2016, Baltimore, USA.
• Mar 20–26: Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation, Aspen, USA.
• Mar 27–Apr 1: From Photonics to Polaritonics, Les Houches, France.
• Mar 30–Apr 1: Quantum Networks, Barcelona, Spain.


• Apr 3–7: SPIE Photonics Europe 2016, Brussels, Belgium.
• Apr 4–6: PICQUE Young Scientist Conference on quantum information with photons, Bristol, UK.
• Apr 6: Quantum technologies for Europe - Opportunities for economy and society, Brussels, Belgium.
• Apr 4–8: Many-body Physics in Synthetic Quantum Systems, Stellenbosch, South Africa.
• Apr 6–8: Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop, Bristol, UK.
• Apr 8: Workshop on Optical clocks: quantum engineering and international timekeeping, York, UK.
• Apr 11–12: First RICE School "New trends in Quantum Information School", Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
• Apr 12–15: Reduced Density Matrices in Quantum Physics and Role of Fermionic Exchange Symmetry, Oxford, UK.
• Apr 13–15: Quantum Information in Spain (ICE-3), Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
• Apr 18–21: Coherent Control of Complex Quantum Systems (C3QS 2016), Okinawa, Japan.


• May 2‐3: Random Bit Generation Workshop 2016, Gaithersburg, USA.
• May 8‐13: 4th Quantum Thermodynamics Conference, Erice, Italy.
• May 9‐10: Quantum technology for the 21st century, London, UK.
• May 9‐13: WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Ultracold Quantum Gases–Current Trends and Future Perspectives, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• May 11‐12: Quantum technology challenges for the 21st century, Buckinghamshire, UK.
• May 11‐13: 5th International Conference on Quantum Metrology, Poznan, Poland.
• May 17–18: 2016 Quantum Conference in Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• May 22–27: The 9th International Conference on Quantum Dots (QD2016), Jeju, Korea.
• May 22–27: Workshop on Multipartite Entanglement, Benasque, Spain.
• May 23–26: International Conference on the Frontiers in Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics, Shanghai, China.
• May 23–Jun 24: Quantum Information in String Theory and Many-body Systems, Kyoto, Japan.
• May 25–27: International Conference on Quantum Science and Applications (ICQSA-2016), Eskisehir, Turkey.
• May 25–28: Workshop on Statistical Mechanics of Quantum Dynamics, Mariehamn, Finland.
• May 29–Jun 19: Light–matter Interaction and Quantum Control In Many–body Systems, Aspen, USA.
• May 30–Jun 10: Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP), Waterloo, Canada.
• May 30–Jun 10: Summer School on Computational Quantum Materials, Sherbrooke, Canada. *
• May 31–Jun 1: Quantum Technology in an Australian Context Symposium, Canberra, Australia. *


• Jun 5–10: CLEO 2016: Laser Science to Photonic Applications, San Jose, USA.
• Jun 5–12: Quantum simulations and many-body physics with light, Chania, Greece.
• Jun 6–9: Workshop on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems, Durban, South Africa.
• Jun 6–10: 13th International Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic, Glasgow, UK.
• Jun 6–18: Quantum non-equilibrium phenomena, Durban, South Africa.
• Jun 8–10: WE-Heraeus-Seminar: Quantum Speed Limits , Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Jun 13–14: Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop, Delft, The Netherlands.
• Jun 13–16: Quantum and Beyond (QB), V¨a;xj¨a;, Sweden.
• Jun 13–17: Quantum Matter, Spacetime and Information, Kyoto, Japan.
• Jun 19–Jul 8: Workshop on Quantum Matter, Benasque, Spain.
• Jun 21–24: Relativistic Quantum Information - North 2016, Waterloo, Canada.
• Jun 22–24: Quantumness: A celebration of Luiz Davidovich's research career on his 70th birthday, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Jun 26–Jul 1: Quantum Non-Equilibrium Phenomena, Natal, Brazil.
• Jun 26–Jul 1: 3rd Seefeld workshop on Quantum Information, Seefeld, Austria.
• Jun 27–30: Adiabatic Quantum Computing Conference 2016, Venice, USA.
• Jun 27–Jul 1: 23rd Central European Conference on Quantum Optics (CEWQO2016), Kolymbari, Greece.
• Jun 27–Jul 1: Trustworthy Quantum Information 2016, Shanghai, China.
• Jun 27–Jul 6: International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi"—Metrology: from physics fundamentals to quality of life, Varenna, Italy.


• Jul 4–8: International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing (QCMC 2016), Singapore.
• Jul 4–8: Master School on Quantum Nano- and Opto-mechanics, Barcelona, Spain.
• Jul 4–8: Light Conference, Changchun, China.
• Jul 4–29: Summer School in Current Trends in Atomic Physics, Les Houches, France. *
• Jul 8–13: International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi": Foundations of Quantum Theory, Varenna, Italy.
• Jul 10–16: Quantum Structures 2016 Leicester (IQSA2016), Leicester, UK.
• Jul 10–29: Quantum Science: Implementations, Benasque, Spain.
• Jul 11–Aug 5: Boulder School 2016: Topological Phases of Quantum Matter, Boulder, USA.
• Jul 18–21: EQuS Winter School, Blue Mountains, Australia.
• Jul 18–22: Workshop on Quantum Machine Learning Meetings, Blythedale Beach, South Africa.
• Jul 18–29: It From Qubit Summer School, Waterloo, Canada.
• Jul 22–27: International School of Physics "Enrico Fermi": Quantum simulators, Varenna, Italy.
• Jul 22–27: 25th International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2016), Seoul, Korea.
• Jul 25–29: XVIII Giambiagi School: Quantum Chaos & Control, Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Visit their website to see the coolest conference header ever).
• Jul 30–31: Seminar on Quantum Entanglement, New States of Matter, and Correlated Dynamics, Easton, USA.
• Jul 31–Aug 5: Conference on Quantum Entanglement, New States of Matter, and Correlated Dynamics, Easton, USA.
• Jul 31–Aug 5: 33rd International Conference on the Physics of Semiconductors, Beijing, China.
• Jul 31–Aug 12: Workshop on Gravity in the Lab, Benasque, Spain.


• Aug 1–5: Synthetic Topological Quantum Matter, Beijing, China.
• Aug 5–12: Quantum Cryptography School for Young Students (QCSYS), Waterloo, Canada.
• Aug 14–27: Fault-Tolerant Quantum Technologies, Benasque, Spain.
• Aug 17–22: If A Tree Falls: the Physics of What Happens and Who is Listening, Banff, Canada.
• Aug 21–26: 7th EPS-QEOD Europhoton Conference: Solid State, Fibre, and Waveguide Coherent Light Sources, Vienna, Austria.
• Aug 26–28: The 9th International symposium on photonics and optoelectronics (SOPO 2016), Xi'an, China.
• Aug 28–Sep 1: Quantum Communications and Quantum Imaging XIV, San Diego, USA.
• Aug 28–Sep 1: 16th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2016), Taipei, Taiwan.
• Aug 29–Sep 2: European Conference on Trapped Ions (QCMC 2016), Arosa, Switzerland.
• Aug 30–Sep 2: Workshop on Many Body Dynamics and Open Quantum Systems (DOQS 2016), Glasgow, UK.
• Aug 31–Sep 3: Quantum Gases And Quantum Coherence (BEC2016), Salerno, Italy.
• Aug 31–Sep 4: 20th Osaka City University International Conference on Molecular Spins and Quantum Technology (OCUIC-2016), Osaka, Japan.


• Sep 3–10: Frontiers of Matter Wave Optics Summer School (FOMO-2016), Arcachon, France.
• Sep 5–8: Photon16, Leeds, UK.
• Sep 5–9: 12th European Conference on Atoms, Molecules and Photons (ECAMP12), Frankfurt, Germany.
• Sep 8: Silicon Quantum Information Processing 2016: Towards hybrid quantum circuits, Cambridge, UK.
• Sep 9: Superconducting Quantum Devices in the UK (SQD16), Cambridge, UK.
• Sep 10–13: International Iran Conference on Quantum Information 2016 (IICQI-16), Tehran, Iran. (postponed)
• Sep 10–17: Frontiers of Matter Wave Optics Conference (FOMO-2016), Arcachon, France.
• Sep 11–16: Bad Honnef Physics School on the Frontiers of Quantum Matter, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Sep 12–13: Single Photons Single Spins Meeting (SPSS), Oxford, UK.
• Sep 12–16: 6th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt 2016), Washington, USA.
• Sep 12–16: ComplexQuantumSystems Summer School (CoQuS 2016), Vienna, Austria.
• Sep 12–Dec 9: Program on Synthetic Quantum Matter, Santa Barbara, USA.
• Sep 19–20: Master class on Agency and (quantum) physics, Konstanz, Germany.
• Sep 19–20: Fourth workshop on Quantum Safe Crypto, Toronto, Canada.
• Sep 19–22: Simulating Quantum Processes and Devices, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Sep 20–22: Quantum UK 2016 Conference, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
• Sep 20–23: 9th Italian Quantum Information Science Conference (IQIS 2016), Rome, Italy.
• Sep 20–23: Conference on Agency and (quantum) physics (AQP2016), Konstanz, Germany.
• Sep 20–23: Quantum Technologies Conference VII: Manipulating photons, atoms, and molecules (QTC16), Warszaw, Poland.
• Sep 25–Oct 1: Quantum Engineering of Levitated Systems, Benasque, Spain.
• Sep 26–Dec 16: Program on Symmetry, Topology, and Quantum Phases of Matter: From Tensor Networks to Physical Realizations, Santa Barbara, USA.
• Sep 26–29: Quantum Information Science and Technology, Edinburgh, UK.
• Sep 26–30: International Conference on Coherent and Nonlinear Optics / International Conference on Lasers, Applications, and Technologies (ICONO/LAT 2016), Minsk, Belarus
• Sep 27–29: 11th Conference on the Theory of Quantum Computation, Communication and Cryptography (TQC2016), Berlin, Germany.
• Sep 27–Oct 6: Okinawa School in Physics: Coherent Quantum Dynamics (CQD2016), Okinawa, Japan.


• Oct 8–10: Workshop on Subfactor Theory, Quantum Field Theory, and Quantum Information (QFT16), Cambridge, USA.
• Oct 16–21: Frontiers in Optics: The 100th OSA Annual Meeting and Exhibit/Laser Science XXXII (FiO 2016), Rochester, USA.
• Oct 17–21: Conference on on Symmetry, Topology, and Quantum Phases of Matter, Santa Barbara, USA.
• Oct 17–21: 2nd International Conference on Quantum Foundations (ICQF-16), Patna, India.
• Oct 19–21: Young Quantum Information Scientists (YQIS), Barcelona, Spain.
• Oct 24–27: Third International Ultracold Quantum Matter Workshop (UQUAM), Berlin, Germany.
• Oct 24–28: Quantum Optics VIII (QOVIII), São Sebastião, Brazil.
• Oct TBA: PICQUE Scientific School on Architectures for Quantum Photonic Circuits, Nice, France.


• Nov 12–17: 4th International Conference on Quantum Foundation and Technology: Frontier and Future (ICQFT2016), Shanghai, China.
• Nov 14–18: Conference on Synthetic Quantum Matter, Santa Barbara, USA.
• Nov 17–20: Workshop of Quantum Simulation and Quantum Walks 2016, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Nov 21–25: Quantum Bayesian networks: the physics of nonlocal events, Natal, Brazil.
• Nov 21–Dec 2: School and Workshop on Driven Quantum Systems, San Carlos de Bariloche, Argentina.
• Nov 21–Dec 10: Programme on Fundamental Problems of Quantum Physics (FPQP), Bangalore, India.
• Nov 27–Dec 2: Conference on Optics, Atoms and Laser Applications (IONS KOALA 2016), Melbourne, Australia.
• Nov 28–30: 10th Relativistic Quantum Information Workshop (RQI10), Brisbane Australia.


• Dec 4–8: 13th Asia-Pacific Physics Conference & 22nd Australian Institute of Physics Congress (APPC & AIP 2016), Brisbane, Australia.
• Dec 4–8: Fundamental Problems of Quantum Physics, Bangalore, India.
• Dec 8–10: Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems Annual Workshop (EQUS6), Noosa, Australia.

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

JUNK CONFERENCE WARNING

In modern science, as any field matures it becomes a target of predatory journals, publishers, and meeting organisers: quantum technology is no exception unfortunately! (For those interested in the sociology of this, the New York Times has a nice recent article: A Peek Inside the Strange World of Fake Academia). Regular readers of this page have reported the following conferences as junk conferences, based on attending and/or presenting at earlier incarnations of them.

EMN. Social media has lit up with colleagues complaining about spam from an organisation called EMN Meetings—mostly on private pages, but here are representative public postings by Jacob Biamonte and Heino Falke. From their website it looks like they've shut down. Result!

waset are a known predatory publisher, run by a former science teacher in Turkey (and his family). Readers have complained to this site about their fraudulent behaviour, for example:

I would also like to alert you that this particular organization has been using my name as their conference committee member. I am not involved at all with this organization and their conferences and have not consented for my name to be used. My university legal office has been informed and is looking into the matter. I hope you will inform your colleagues if they happen to associate me with these conferences."—Kim Guan Saw, 2 April 2015

See the comments at the end of this post for other 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.