Support for the International Quantum Structures Association Conference of 2004

该奖项为参加2004年7月17日至22日在科罗拉多州丹佛市举行的第七届国际量子结构协会两年一次会议的与会者提供旅费支持。会议的目的是介绍该领域的新概念和原创思想。会议的主题将包括：量子逻辑、量子概率论、量子测量、量子理论哲学、量子信息、量子计算与编码、量子、群论与量子力学、C*代数与冯·诺伊曼代数、希尔伯特空间方法及其应用。这次会议是该系列会议中的第一次在美国举行，为提高美国研究人员对正在进行的量子结构国际研究的认识和参与提供了机会。量子结构的研究涉及量子理论的数学、物理、哲学、语言和逻辑。鉴于量子力学现象在应用方面的最新进展，包括安全量子通信协议和量子计算和编码方面的最新努力，这些主题的研究变得越来越重要。7月在丹佛召开的国际量子结构协会两年一度的会议为研究人员提供了一个促进和传播量子结构领域信息的机会，并发起了联合研究。这对来自美国的年轻研究人员尤其重要，他们将有机会与六七十名世界顶尖的量子结构研究人员会面，并开始与他们进行合作研究。

This award furnishes travel support for participants in the seventh biennial meeting of the International Quantum Structures Association, held in Denver, Colorado, 17-22 July 2004. The purpose of the meeting is to present new concepts and original ideas in the field. Topics of the meeting will include: quantum logics, quantum probability theory, quantum measurements, the philosophy of quantum theory, quantum information, quantum computing and coding, quantales, group theory and quantum mechanics, C* algebras and von Neumann algebras, Hilbert space methods, and applications. This meeting, the first in this series to be held in the United States, provides an opportunity to increase the awareness and participation of U.S. researchers in on-going international research in quantum structures.Research in quantum structures deals with the mathematics, the physics, the philosophy, the language, and the logic of quantum theory. Study of these topics is increasingly important in view of recent advances in the application of quantum-mechanical phenomena, including secure quantum communication protocols and the latest efforts in quantum computing and coding. The biennial meeting of the International Quantum Structures Association in July in Denver provides researchers an opportunity to promote and disseminate information in the field of quantum structures, as well as initiating joint research. This is especially important to the young researchers from the United States, who will have the opportunity to meet sixty or seventy of the world's leading researchers in quantum structures and begin collaborative research with them.