Conference: Foundations of Quantum Information and Entanglement; Boston University; March 24-25, 2006

“量子信息和纠缠的基础”STS会议和研讨会建议最近，在科学和工程中出现了一个新的、迅速发展的交叉学科领域，被称为“量子信息科学”(QIS)。量子信息系统的领域由两组相关的目标统一起来：第一，使用量子力学的原理和定律来改进信息的获取、传输和处理的可能性；第二，利用这些新技术的发展来澄清基本概念，加深对量子物理和计算基础问题的理解。这项提议寻求支持召开一次为期两天的国际会议，将量子信息科学家和科学技术研究(STS)学者聚集在一起，讨论这一新兴领域的最新发展和基础问题。这次会议的智力价值在于它将探索新的概念，并具有显著促进QIS和STS领域内和跨领域的研究和理解的潜力。会议将于2006年3月24日和3月25日在波士顿大学举行。大会将围绕以下主题安排四场会议：1.“量子纠缠：历史和基础”“量子计算与信息的本质”“量子密码学和信息安全”，和4.《纠缠：从哲学到技术》每次会议将由来自QIS和STS社区的大致相同数量的发言者组成，以确保这些群体之间进行最大限度的互动。发言者已经有条件地接受了参加这次会议的邀请，他们不仅包括这些领域的一些世界顶尖研究人员，还包括几位崭露头角的初级学者，他们的教育和研究将从这次机会中受益匪浅。更广泛的影响这次会议将免费向公众开放，不仅将使这一令人兴奋的研究领域向更广泛的受众开放，还将通过开启这两个不同研究群体之间的对话，帮助在QIS和STS的交汇点建立一个新的学术领域。会议将在多个层面加强教育：初级学者的职业培训；研究生、博士后学生的教育；以及其他可以考虑在自己的课程中纳入会议材料的教职员工。

Project Summary"Foundations of Quantum Information and Entanglement"STS Conference and Workshop ProposalRecently there has emerged a new and rapidly growing interdisciplinary field ofresearch in science and engineering known as "quantum information science" (QIS). The field of QIS is unified by two related sets of goals: First, the possibility of using the principles and laws of quantum mechanics to improve the acquisition, transmission, and processing of information; and second, to use the development of these new technologies to clarify fundamental concepts and deepen the understanding of foundational issues in quantum physics and computation. This proposal seeks support for a two-day international conference to bring together quantum information scientists and science and technology studies (STS) scholars to discuss the latest developments and foundational issues in this emerging field.Intellectual Merits The intellectual merits of this conference lie both in the novel concepts it will explore and in the potential this conference has to significantly advance research and understanding both within-and across-the fields of QIS and STS. The conference will be held March 24th and March 25th of 2006, at Boston University. There will be four sessions at the conference organized around the following themes: 1. "Quantum Entanglement: History and Foundations," 2. "Quantum Computing and the Nature of Information," 3. "Quantum Cryptography and Information Security," and 4. "Entanglement: From Philosophy to Technology." Each session will be comprised of roughly an equal number of speakers from both the QIS and STS communities, to ensure maximum interaction among these groups. The speakers, who have already conditionally accepted the invitation to participate in this conference, include not only some the world's top researchers in these fields, but also several up-and-coming junior scholars whose education and research stands to benefit greatly from this opportunity. Broader ImpactsThe conference, which will be free and open to the public, will not only make this exciting area of research accessible to a wider audience, but will also help establish a new area of scholarship at the intersection of QIS and STS, by opening up a dialogue between these two diverse groups of researchers. The conference will enhance education at many levels: career training of junior scholars; education of graduate students, postdoctoral students; and other faculty who can consider incorporating material from the conference in their own courses.