China QIS Program Meeting 2015 Held

The CIFAR-China Quantum Information Science Program Meeting 2015, co-organized by The Institute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences (IIIS), Tsinghua University, and Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), kicked off at the Lecture Hall, FIT Building, Nov. 23, Over 50 prominent researchers from both China and Canada attended the 3-day meeting.

In his opening remarks, Prof. Andrew Chi-Chih Yao, Dean of IIIS, extended warm welcome to all the participants and noted that this annual meeting provided a platform for researchers on quantum information.

Raymond Laflamme, director of QIS Program of CIFAR, pointed out that the goal of the meeting is to bring together people who think about quantum information processing from computer science to physics and to make people understand a new piece of either computer science or physics.

The 3-day program included 12 invited talks, covering a range of hot topics including Quantum Noise, Quantum Entanglement, and Quantum Tomography. Dr. Gregor Weihs, a Professor of the University of Innsbruck and a member of Austrian and American Physical Societies, delivered a speech entitled "One, Two, and three photons from a nanowire", sharing with the audience his group's latest research achievements in quantum experiment.

(By Shuai Sun, Photo by Xiang Li)