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The fourth annual meeting of the
Southwest Quantum Information and Technology
Network, or "SQuInT" will be
held Friday, March 8 through noon Sunday, March
10, 2002 in Boulder, Colorado. This meeting
follows the previous meetings held at the
University of New Mexico ('99 and '00) and Cal
Tech ('01). Anticipated sponsors for the meeting
include: NSA/ARDA, DARPA, ONR, Institute for
Quantum Information (Cal Tech), LANL, and NIST.
A check-in desk will be available at the
Millennium Hotel from 6:30 PM to 9:00 PM on the
evening of March 7. Check-in after that can
be done at NIST. Daytime sessions will be held in
the auditorium of the main building of the
National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), 325 Broadway. Oral presentations will
begin at 9:00 AM, March 8, with a continental
breakfast available beforehand. A poster session
will be held on Friday (approximately 6:00 -7:30
PM), March 9 and a banquet on Saturday night at
the Millennium Hotel (the conference hotel).
(Extra banquet tickets may be purchased from
conference coordinator Wendy Ortega Henderson;
see below.)
ACCOMMODATIONS
Blocks of rooms have been set aside at the
Millennium Hotel Boulder (see link on this page)
for those who will be attending the meeting.
Attendees are responsible for arranging their own
room reservations and are strongly urged to do so
early. Mention the NIST SQuInT
meeting when making your reservations. (Rate for
single/double: $93 + 9.7% tax)
Please make your lodging reservations before the
cut-off date of February 8, 2002.
After this date, we cannot guarantee that the
space or the room rate will be available. For a
list of other Boulder hotels please see our
website at: http://bouldercvb.com/lodging.html or contact
Wendy Ortega Henderson at: ortegaw@boulder.nist.gov for
recommendations.
PROGRAM
In addition to
the regular oral sessions, we want to
strongly encourage participation through poster
presentations. As a preview to these poster
presentations, we will include ~ 5 minute preview
talks by poster presenters during the regular
meeting session. To be included in the posters,
please send a one-page abstract to Wayne Itano itano@boulder.nist.gov as an
E-mail attachment prior to two weeks before the
meeting. The format should be at least 12 point
font, in PDF, PostScript, or Microsoft Word
format. (If this is not possible, contact Dr.
Itano.) These abstracts will be reproduced and
distributed upon check-in at the meeting.
REGISTRATION
A link for registration can be found on
this page. Note that due to increased security at
government sites, we strongly urge all
participants (particularly non-US citizens) to
preregister two weeks in advance of the meeting;
depending on the security concerns at the time of
the meeting, on-site registration might not be
available.
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RECENT UPDATES
Because all of the submitted posters
cannot be accommodated in the space for Friday
evening's session, we will have a second poster
session during the day on Saturday. These posters
will be set up in a room adjacent to the NIST
auditorium where the main oral talks will be
presented. Athough we won't have a scheduled time
slot for these posters, there should be plenty of
time during coffee breaks, lunch, and after the
regular session that day for the material to be
presented. Also, Michael Roukes has had to cancel
from the meeting due to illness. Ivan Deutsch's
talk will be moved from Saturday, 11:00 AM to the
place of Michael's talk, 11:30 AM, Friday. The
11:00 - 11:30 AM time slot on Saturday will be
left open for an extended coffee break + posters.
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