[TYPES/announce] QPL2011 workshop, Nijmegen

[Peter Selinger]

The following annoucement may be of interest to some type theorists. 
One of the focuses of this workshop is structures, programming
languages, and semantics for quantum computing, including type systems.


	 8th workshop on QUANTUM PHYSICS AND LOGIC (QPL 2011)

		    Nijmegen, October 27-29, 2011.
		      http://qpl.science.ru.nl/

			Call for submissions.

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 This event will bring together researchers working on mathematical
 foundations of quantum physics, quantum computing and information,
 and spatio-temporal causal structures, and in particular those that
 use logical tools, ordered algebraic and category-theoretic
 structures, formal languages, semantical methods and other computer
 science methods for the study physical behaviour in general. Over the
 past few years, there has been growing activity in these foundational
 approaches, together with a renewed interest in the foundations of
 quantum theory, which complement the more mainstream research in
 quantum computation.

Invited Speakers:

 Hans Maassen (Nijmegen)
 Urs Schreiber (Utrecht)
 Rob Spekkens (Perimeter Institute)

Deadlines:

 Submission: Aug 27
 Notification of authors: Sep 20
 Corrected papers due: Oct 13

Submission:

 Prospective speakers are invited to submit a 5-12 page extended
 abstract that provides sufficient evidence of results of genuine
 interest and provides sufficient detail to allows the program
 committee to assess the merits of the work. Submissions of works in
 progress are encouraged but must be more substantial than a research
 proposal. Submissions should be prepared using LaTeX, and must be
 submitted in PDF format at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl11

Proceedings:

 Extended versions of accepted talks will be published in Electronic
 Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS) after the
 workshop.

Program committee:

 Thorsten Altenkirch (Nottingham)
 John Baez (UC Riverside and CQT Singapore)
 Dan Browne (UCL - London)
 Bob Coecke (Oxford)
 Giulio Chiribella (Perimeter Institute)
 Andreas Döring (Oxford)
 Simon Gay (University of Glasgow)
 Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen, co-chair)
 Klaas Landsman (Nijmegen)
 Prakash Panangaden (McGill)
 Simon Perdrix (CNRS - Grenoble)
 Mehrnoosh Sadrzadeh (Oxford)
 Peter Selinger (Dalhousie, co-chair)
 Bas Spitters (Nijmegen)

Local organizers:

 Bart Jacobs (Nijmegen)
 Bas Spitters (Nijmegen)

Steering committee:

 Bob Coecke (Oxford)
 Prakash Panangaden (McGill)
 Peter Selinger (Dalhousie)

Previous meetings:

 Previous QPL workshops were held in Ottawa (2003), Turku (2004),
 Chicago (2005), Oxford (2006), Reykjavik (2008), Oxford (2009),
 Oxford (2010).

Websites:

 http://qpl.science.ru.nl/ (Workshop Homepage)
 http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qpl11 (Submission)

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Contact:

 For more information, please contact Bart Jacobs and Peter Selinger
 at qpl11 at easychair.org.