Venue: Institute of Physics (IOP), Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India(http://www.iopb.res.in)

Quantum information science is one of the frontier area of science and technology. It is also an interdisciplinary area of research where scientists from physics, mathematics, and computer science can contribute alike. One of the main goal is how well one can process information using laws of quantum theory. Quantum information theory aims to process information that is not amenable with classical devices. At the same time this also provides new insights into the nature of quantum world. Quantum information processing includes quantum computation, quantum communication, quantum cryptography and various information processing tasks. Not only this provides fundamental arena to investigate quantum phenomena but also gives new technological benefits like quantum teleportation, remote state preparation and and secure communications.

In the proposed programme, we hope to bring experts from all over the world and focus on various issues related to quantum information science and general quantum theory. These issues will be characterization and quantification of entanglement, quantum channels and quantum operations, role of entanglement in quantum algorithms and quantum computation, developing new quantum algorithms, understanding of capacities of quantum channels, and new communication tasks in the multiparty case.

The aim of the programme will be to have a fruitful interaction between leadings experts of the field which may lead to a better understanding of the subject. In addition, during the one month programme there will be mini workshops, seminars and discussion meetings among all the participants. The duration of the programme will be four weeks.