International Quantum Award
The call is open for the 2022 edition of the biennial International Quantum Award "for outstanding achievements in quantum science research", to be presented during QCMC 2022, the 15th edition of the International Conference on Quantum Communication, Measurement and Computing, taking place in Lisbon, on 11-15 July 2022.
By default, two winners will be chosen from the nominations, one for theoretical and one for experimental achievements (though the Award Committee may deviate from this rule in particularly compelling cases). Each recipient will be invited to deliver an Award Talk at QCMC 2022, and will receive a Certificate and a cash award of 2500 USD.
Please keep the motivation for the nomination to within one page. Nominations endorsed by several people may carry additional weight.
Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Steering Committee of QCMC, Valerio Scarani (physv [at] nus.edu.sg), by Friday 8 April 2022.
Previous laureates:
1996: Charles Bennett, Carl Helstrom, Alexander Holevo, Horace Yuen
1998: Jeffrey Kimble, Peter Shor
2000: Paul Benioff, Christopher Monroe, David Wineland
2002: David Deutsch, Serge Haroche, Benjamin Schumacher
2004: Richard Jozsa, Prem Kumar
2006: Ignacio Cirac, Philippe Grangier, William Wootters, Peter Zoller
2008: Jeffrey Shapiro, Akira Furusawa, Anton Zeilinger
2010: Gerard Milburn, Masanao Ozawa, Christopher Fuchs, Alexander Lvovsky
2012: Jian-Wei Pan, Seth Lloyd
2014: Nicolas Gisin, Reinhard Werner
2016: Rainer Blatt , Artur Ekert
2018: Carlton Caves, Nergis Mavalvala, David McClelland, Roman Schnabel
By default, two winners will be chosen from the nominations, one for theoretical and one for experimental achievements (though the Award Committee may deviate from this rule in particularly compelling cases). Each recipient will be invited to deliver an Award Talk at QCMC 2022, and will receive a Certificate and a cash award of 2500 USD.
Please keep the motivation for the nomination to within one page. Nominations endorsed by several people may carry additional weight.
Nominations should be sent to the Chair of the Steering Committee of QCMC, Valerio Scarani (physv [at] nus.edu.sg), by Friday 8 April 2022.
Previous laureates:
1996: Charles Bennett, Carl Helstrom, Alexander Holevo, Horace Yuen
1998: Jeffrey Kimble, Peter Shor
2000: Paul Benioff, Christopher Monroe, David Wineland
2002: David Deutsch, Serge Haroche, Benjamin Schumacher
2004: Richard Jozsa, Prem Kumar
2006: Ignacio Cirac, Philippe Grangier, William Wootters, Peter Zoller
2008: Jeffrey Shapiro, Akira Furusawa, Anton Zeilinger
2010: Gerard Milburn, Masanao Ozawa, Christopher Fuchs, Alexander Lvovsky
2012: Jian-Wei Pan, Seth Lloyd
2014: Nicolas Gisin, Reinhard Werner
2016: Rainer Blatt , Artur Ekert
2018: Carlton Caves, Nergis Mavalvala, David McClelland, Roman Schnabel
Best Poster Awards
The QCMC 2022 Best Poster Awards will be announced here.