Workshop Proposal: Quantum Control Summer School, August 8-14, 2005; California Institute of Technology; Pasadena, CA

我们提交此提案，请求NSF支持量子控制暑期学校，将于2005年8月8日至14日在加州理工学院举行。这所学校的成立是为了响应物理学家、工程师和应用数学家在探索行为明显是量子力学的系统中的控制原理和应用方面迅速增长的兴趣。讲座将主要针对刚刚开始在该领域的研究生和高级研究人员，但将包括一些高级演讲，以提供一些研究前沿的观点。我们已经从加州理工学院的信息科学与技术项目中获得了暑期学校的种子资金，但我们正在寻求包括美国国家科学基金会和AFOSR在内的政府机构的额外支持。智力优势：控制理论是现代工程的核心学科，但到目前为止，在扩展其构成方法以结合量子动力学和测量方面只有初步的研究。量子控制理论的应用领域从蛋白质结构测定到精密测量和计量，并与量子计算领域有着深刻的联系。我们期待这个暑期学校能够在促进量子控制的发展方面发挥关键作用，因为它得到了控制理论、数学物理、原子物理、量子光学和凝聚态物理等重要领域的热烈支持。更广泛的影响：这个暑期学校将为参加的学生和高级研究人员提供独特的教育体验。它的主题本质上是跨学科的，并且具有足够强大的智力吸引力，吸引了工程和纯物理领域领先研究人员的注意。似乎有理由希望，这类事件将刺激量子物理学、动力系统理论和概率论的综合，就像早期的量子计算研讨会促进了物理学家和计算机科学家共同语言的发展一样。

We are submitting this proposal to request NSF support for a Quantum Control SummerSchool, to be held 8-14 August 2005 at the California Institute of Technology. Thisschool is being organized in response to burgeoning interest among physicists, engineersand applied mathematicians in exploring the principles and applications of control insystems whose behavior is manifestly quantum mechanical. The lectures will be addressedmainly to graduate students and senior researchers who are just getting started in thefield, but will include some advanced presentations to provide some perspective onresearch frontiers. We have already secured seed funding for the summer school fromCaltech's initiative in Information Science and Technology, but we are seeking additionalsupport from government agencies including the NSF and AFOSR.Intellectual merit: Control theory is a central discipline in modern engineering, but sofar there has been only preliminary research on extending its constitutive methodologiesto incorporate quantum dynamics and measurement. Applications areas for quantum controltheory range from protein structure determination to precision measurement and metrology,and deep connections have been identified with the field of quantum computation. Weanticipate that this summer school can play a critical role in stimulating the developmentof quantum control, as it has the enthusiastic support of important constituencies incontrol theory, mathematical physics, atomic physics, quantum optics and condensed matterphysics.Broader impact: This summer school will provide a unique educational experience for bothstudents and senior researchers who attend. Its topic is inherently interdisciplinary andhas sufficiently strong intellectual appeal to draw the attention of leading researchersin both engineering and pure physics. It seems reasonable to hope that events of thiskind will spur a synthesis of quantum physics, dynamical systems theory and probabilitytheory in the same way that early workshops on quantum computation facilitated thedevelopment of a common language for physicists and computer scientists.