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

该提案要求为2006年8月在哈佛大学举行的为期五天的量子控制研讨会提供资金。研讨会的目标是促进控制理论家对设计控制方案的方法的应用驱动需求的理解，以及对其实现的实际约束的欣赏。我们也希望在实验家和理论家之间建立对控制理论分析/设计方法的范围和效用的欣赏。最后，我们希望开始开发量子控制的概念和数学语言。研究报告将与辅导课相结合。我们正在向几个来源申请资金，预计我们将能够支付约55名剑桥以外的与会者和约20名本地与会者的旅行和生活费用。研讨会旨在汇集来自物理、化学、控制理论、动力系统、随机学、信号处理和信息科学等不同领域的研究人员，以确定数学模型和控制问题，这些问题的研究和解决将对涉及量子系统控制和操纵的技术和实验产生重大影响。经验表明，系统地使用控制理论方法，可以显著改善从磁共振到量子信息处理等领域的最新方法。研讨会的目标是在这些成功的基础上，创造一种统一的量子力学系统语言和系统理论，对原子、分子和光学物理、化学中的相干光谱、磁共振、量子通信、信息和计算等领域有潜在的影响。本次会议的重要组成部分是辅导课，旨在教育物理、化学和磁共振领域的学生和研究人员，以及控制理论的分析和设计方法。此外，还将为工程专业的研究人员和学生开设关于量子系统控制和操纵应用中出现的基本模型的辅导课。面向应用的从业者通常使用的模型和分析类型与控制理论家研究的模型和分析类型之间存在巨大差距。研讨会旨在弥合这一差距。

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.