Workshop Proposal: Control of Quantum Systems Conference, Harvard University; August 7-12, 2006

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The proposal requests funds for a five day workshop on quantum control to be held at Harvard Universityin August of 2006. The goal of the workshop is to foster an understanding among control theorists ofapplication-driven needs for methods to design control schemes and an appreciation of the practicalconstraints on their implementation. We also hope to build an appreciation among experimentalistsand theoretical for the range and utility of analysis/design methods from control theory. Finally, wehope to begin the development conceptual and mathematical languages for quantum control. researchpresentations will be integrated with tutorial lectures. We are requesting funds from several sources withthe expectation that we will be able to cover the travel and living expenses of about 55 attendees fromoutside Cambridge and about 20 local.Intellectual Merit The workshop aims to bring researchers from diverse field of physics, chemistry,control theory, dynamical systems, stochastics, signal processing and information science to identifymathematical models and control problems whose study and solution will have significant bearing ontechnologies and experiments involving control and manipulation of quantum systems. Experience hasshown that systematic use of methods of control theory that lead to significant improvement in the stateof the art methods in fields ranging from magnetic resonance to quantum information processing. Theworkshop aims to build on these successes to create a unified language and system theory of quantummechanical systems with potential impact on areas of atomic, molecular and optical physics, coherentspectroscopies in chemistry, magnetic resonance, quantum communication, information and computation.Broader Impact Important component of this meeting are tutorial sessions that aim to educate studentsand researchers in areas of physics, chemistry and magnetic resonance, the analysis and design methodsof control theory. There will also be tutorial session on basic models that arise in applications involvingcontrol and manipulation of quantum systems to researchers and students in engineering. There is aformidable gap between the types of models and analysis commonly utilized by application-orientedpractitioners and those studied by control theorists. The workshop aims to bridge this gap.