2014 Conferences

A selection of quantum conferences that may be of interest:   136 meetings
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• Dec 30, 2013–Jan 9: The 31st Jerusalem Winter School in Theoretical Physics, Jerusalem, Israel. *
• Jan 5–10: The Physics of Information, Vieques Island, Puerto Rico.
• Jan 7–9: 2nd International Conference on Photonics, Optics, and Laser Technology (PHOTOPTICS 2014), Lisbon, Portugal.
• Jan 9–10: International Workshop on Quantum Communication Networks (QCN 2014), Leeds, UK.
• Jan 10: Quantum Dot Day 2014, Sheffield, UK.
• Jan 14–17: Sydney Quantum Information Theory Workshop (Coogee'14), Sydney, Australia.
• Jan 17–18: AMS Special Session on Quantum Walks, Quantum Computation, and Related Topics, Baltimore, USA.
• Jan 19–23: 6th Winter School On Practical Quantum Communications, Les Diablerets, Switzerland. *
• Jan 20–31: Thermodynamics in the quantum regime, Potsdam-Babelsberg, Germany.
• Jan 20–31: Victorian Summer School in Ultracold Physics (VSSUP), Melbourne, Australia.
• Jan 27–28: 5th LFPPI Symposium on Progress in Quantum Cryptography (seQre2014), Wroclaw, Poland.
• Jan 27–30: Winter School on Quantum Physics and Quantum Information, Olomouc, Czech Republic. *


• Feb 1–6: Photonics West, San Francisco, USA.
• Feb 3–7: XVII Conference on Quantum Information Processing 2014 (QIP2014), Barcelona, Spain.
• Feb 6–7: Meeting on Relativistic Quantum Walks, Grenoble, France.
• Feb 10–12: Discrete and Analogue Quantum Simulators, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Feb 13–17: American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting(AAAS 2014), Chicago, USA.
• Feb 17–19: Quantum Contextuality, Non-Locality, and the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Feb 20–22: 16th Annual SQuInT Workshop, Sante Fe, New Mexico.
• Feb 21: South East Quantum Technologies Workshop, Surrey, UK.
• Feb 23–Mar 1: International Conference on Quantum Optics 2014, Obergurgl, Austria.
• Feb 24–28: Quantum Games and Protocols, Berkeley, USA.
• Feb 25–27: DSTL Bristol Quantum Information Technologies Workshop (BQIT 2014), Bristol, UK.


• Mar 3–7: APS March Meeting 2014, Boulder, USA.
• Mar 3–7: The Nagoya Winter Workshop Series on Quantum Information, Measurement, and Foundations, Nagoya, Japan.
• Mar 7–8: Relativistic Quantum Metrology Workshop, Nottingham, UK.
• Mar 9–14: Mechanical Systems in the Quantum Regime, Ventura, USA.
• Mar 9–14: Aspen Winter Conference on Advances in Quantum Algorithms and Computation, Aspen, USA. *
• Mar 10–13: Entanglement Detection and Quantification, Bilbao, Spain.
• Mar 18–20: Quantum Information and Measurement (QIM), Berlin, Germany.
• Mar 23–27: Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics, Rehovot, Israel.
• Mar 24–28: Complexity Meets Condensed Matter, Berkeley, USA.
• Mar 27: Quantum Paris Meeting (QuPa), Paris, France.
• Mar 31–Apr 1: NIST-UMD Workshop on Quantum Information and Computer Science (QuICS), College Park, USA.
• Mar 31–Apr 2: Amsterdam Quantum Logic Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• Mar 31–Apr 5: Quantum Information and Quantum Dynamics in Ion Traps, Cartagena, Spain.


• Apr 2–4: OSA Incubator Meeting Topological Order with Photons, Las Vegas, USA.
• Apr 2,9,16,23,30: Quantum Optics/Engineering Workshop, Lexington, USA.
• Apr 7–9: Special Track on Quantum Information Computing and Communications (STQICC), Las Vegas, USA.
• Apr 14–17: Coherent Control of Complex Quantum Systems, Okinawa, Japan.
• Apr 14–17: Quantum Optics, Brussels, Belgium.
• Apr 21–25: Tensor Networks and Simulations, Berkeley, USA.
• Apr 28–30: Is quantum theory exact? The endeavour for the theory beyond standard quantum mechanics, Rome, Italy.


• May 1–3: Workshop on Quantum States, Lausanne, Switzerland.
• May 5–9: Quantum Information And Computation XII (DS2014), Baltimore, USA.
• May 8–9: Post-Quantum Research - Identifying Future Challenges and Directions, Cambridge, UK.
• May 11–16: International Conference on Quantum Dots (QD 2014), Pisa, Italy.
• May 19–21: Beyond I.I.d Conference 2014, Singapore.
• May 26–29: PICQUE Scientific School in Integrated photonic manipulation for quantum applications, Varenna, Italy.
• May 26–31: Advances in Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Information with atoms and photons, Turin, Italy.
• May 26–Jun 6: Undergraduate School on Experimental Quantum Information Processing (USEQIP), Waterloo, Canada.
• May 28–30: Investigating fine quantum effects in biological systems: toward a synergy between experimental and theoretical approaches?, Paris, France.
• May 28–31: Quantum Gases And Quantum Coherence, Trento, Italy.


• Jun 2–6: Workshop Nanoscale Quantum Optics, Leiden, The Netherlands.
• Jun 4–6: 11th Workshop on Quantum Physics and Logic (QPL 2014), Kyoto, Japan.
• Jun 5–8: 11th Central European Quantum Information Processing Workshop (CEQIP 2014), Znojmo, Czech Republic.
• Jun 8–13: CLEO:2014 - Laser Science to Photonic Applications, San Jose, USA.
• Jun 8–13: Special Symposium on Quantum Repeaters, San Jose, USA.
• Jun 9–12: Quantum Theory: from Problems to Advances (QTPA), Växjö, Sweden.
• Jun 11–14: Third Workshop in Adiabatic Quantum Computing (AQC 2014), Los Angeles, USA.
• Jun 15–27: Quantum Matter, Benasque,Spain.
• Jun 19–22: Quantum [Un]Speakables II: 50 years of Bell's theorem, Vienna, Austria.
• Jun 23–27: 21st Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics (CEWQO 2014), Brussels, Belgium.
• Jun 23–27: Control of Quantum Dynamics of Atoms, Molecules and Ensembles by Light Workshop 2014 (CAMEL10), Nessebar, Bulgaria.
• Jun 23–27: Conference on Physics and Education: Looking Forward to Quantum Frontiers and Beyond (OCPA8), Singapore.
• Jun 23–27: Quantum Structures Olomouc 2014 , Olomouc, Czech Republic.
• Jun 23–Jul 4: 4th Les Houches School in Computational Physics: From Quantum Gases to Strongly Correlated Systems, Les Houches, France.
• Jun 29–Jul 2: Quantum Roundabout, Nottingham, UK.
• Jun 29–Jul 4: 2nd Seefeld Quantum Information Workshop, Seefeld in Tirol, Austria.
• Jun 29–Jul 19: Quantum Science: Implementations, Benasque, Spain.


• Jul 6–10: OptoElectronics and Communication Conference and Australian Conference on Optical Fibre Technology 2014 (OECC/ACOFT 2014), Melbourne, Australia.
• Jul 7–11: Workshop on Quantum Computation and Quantum Information @ SigmaPhi2014, Rhodes, Greece.
• Jul 7–11: New Frontiers of Quantum Information Theory, Ascoli Piceno, Italy.
• Jul 7–15: Quantum Matter at Ultralow Temperatures, Varenna, Italy.
• Jul 9–10: International Conference on Quantum Simulation 2014 (Qs14), Mountain View, USA.
• Jul 14: Alberta Quantum-Nano Workshop, Alberta, Canada.
• Jul 14–16: International Workshop on Quantum LDPC Codes, Waterloo, Canada.
• Jul 26–27: Advances in Quantum Information Science, Easton, USA.
• Jul 27–Aug 1: Simulation, Verification, and Control of Complex Quantum Many-Body Systems, Easton, USA.


• Aug 3–8: 24th International Conference on Atomic Physics (ICAP 2014), Washington DC, USA.
• Aug 4–7: YITP Workshop on Quantum Information Physics (YQIP2014), Kyoto, Japan.
• Aug 4–8: The Principles and Applications of Control in Quantum Systems (PRACQSYS 2014), Cambridge, UK.
• Aug 18–19: Silicon Quantum Electronics Workshop, Albuquerque, USA.
• Aug 18–21: Second School and Conference on Spin-based Quantum Information Processing, Konstanz, Germany.
• Aug 18–23: Quantum Critical Matter - From Atoms to Bulk (QCM 14), Obergurgl, Austria.
• Aug 18–23: Conference on Quantum Engineering of States and Devices, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Aug 18–28: QUTE-EUROPE Summer School 2014, Smolenice castle, Slovak Republic.
• Aug 21–25: 14th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2014), Kyoto, Japan.
• Aug 23–31: 2nd International Summer School on Exact and Numerical Models of Low Dimensional Quantum Structures, Izmir, Turkey.
• Aug 25–29: 2014 International Summer School on Quantum Information Computing & Control (QuICC), Exeter, UK.
• Aug 25–29: International Workshop on Quantum Coherence and Decoherence II, Medellín, Colombia.
• Aug 27–29: Materials for Quantum Technologies Workshop 2014, Edinburgh, UK.
• Aug 25–12 Sep: Analytical and numerical approaches to strongly correlated systems, Benasque, Spain.


• Sep 1–5: Conference on Quantum Cryptography (QCRYPT 2014), Paris, France.
• Sep 6–10: International Iran Conference on Quantum Information 2014 (IICQI 2014), Kish Island, Iran.
• Sep 8–17: Cimpa Research School on "Operator theory and the principles of quantum mechanics", Meknès, Morocco.
• Sep 10–12: Ultracold Rydberg Physics, Granada, Spain.
• Sep 14–19: European Conference on Trapped Ions, Schloss Waldthausen, Germany.
• Sep 15–19: Seventh International Workshop: Spacetime - Matter - Quantum Mechanics (DICE2014), Castiglioncello, Italy.
• Sep 15–19: School on Advances in Quantum Information: Theory and Applications, Rabat, Morocco.
• Sep 16–25: Okinawa School in Physics: Coherent Quantum Dynamics, Okinawa, Japan.
• Sep 22–26: Complex Quantum Systems Summer School (CoQuS 2014), Vienna, Austria.
• Sep 22–26: Quantum Africa Conference 3: Advances in Quantum Sciences, Rabat, Morocco.
• Sep 29–30: Post-quantum Cryptography Summer School, Waterloo, Canada.
• Sep 29–Oct 3: Frontiers on Matter Wave Optics Summer School (FOMO-2014), Enagron, Crete, Greece.
• Sep 29–Oct 3: 18th International School on Quantum electronics: "Laser Physics and Applications" (ISQE'2014), Sozopol, Bulgaria.
• Sep 29–Oct 3: 3rd Biennial China-Australia Quantum Control Workshop (ISQE'2014), Brisbane, Australia.


• Oct 1–3: 6th International Conference On Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQCrypto 2014), Waterloo, Canada.
• Oct 5–10: Benasque School on Quantum Optics and Nonlinear Optics, Benasque, Spain.
• Oct 6–7: ETSI 2nd Quantum-Safe Crypto Workshop, Waterloo, Canada.
• Oct 6–10: Frontiers on Matter Wave Optics Summer School (FOMO-2014), Chania, Crete, Greece.
• Oct 8–10: Nonlinear Spectroscopy Meets Quantum Optics, Freiburg, Germany.
• Oct 20–22: Workshop on Many-body Dynamics and Open Quantum Systems, Glasgow, Scotland.
• Oct 22–24: Australia-Japan Workshop on Quantum Multi-user Networks 2014 (AJW2014), Sydney, Australia.
• Oct 22–24: Bienal Latinoamericana de Óptica Cuántica, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
• Oct 26–29: International Symposium on Information Theory and Its Applications (isita2014), Melbourne, Australia.
• Oct 27–29: Quantum Optimization Workshop, Toronto, Canada.
• Oct 27–31: Quantum Optics VII, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
• Oct 29–31: CCQED Final Meeting, Aarhus, Denmark.


• Nov 2–6: 12th International Conference on Quantum Communication & Measurement and Computing (QCMC 2014), Hefei, China.
• Nov 3–7: Quantum Contextuality: Trick or Treat?, Singapore.
• Nov 17–21: Latin American Optics & Photonics Conference, Cancun, Mexico.
• Nov 24–28: Quantum Simulations and Quantum Walks (QSQW2014), KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.
• Nov 24–28: Australasian Workshop on Emergent Quantum Matter 2014, North Stradbroke Island, Australia.
• Nov 27–30: International School on Quantum and Nano Computing Systems and Applications (QANSAS 2014), Agra, India.


• Dec 1–5: 3rd Canberra International Physics Summer School "Frontiers in Physics", Canberra, Australia.
• Dec 1–5: Designed Quantum States of Matter, Bad Honnef, Germany.
• Dec 2–3: 8th Relativistic Quantum Information Workshop (RQI8), Brisbane, Australia.
• Dec 2–5: 6th International Workshop on Quantum Effects in Biological Systems (QuEBS 2014), Singapore.
• Dec 3: EQuS Optomechanics Incubator, Sydney, Australia.
• Dec 4: Quantum Paris Meeting (QuPa), Paris, France.
• Dec 4–5: Centre for Engineered Quantum Systems Annual Workshop, (EQuS4), Sydney, Australia.
• Dec 7–11: 21st Australian Institute of Physics Congress: The Art of Physics (AIP2014), Canberra, Australia.
• Dec 12–15: Asian-Pacific Conference & Workshop on Quantum Information Science 2014 (APCWQIS 2014), Tainan, Taiwan.
• Dec 15–19: Third International Conference on Quantum Error Correction (QEC14), Zurich, Switzerland.
• Dec 16–18: Topical Research Meeting on Hybrid Quantum Systems, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

* = 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.