 Request for Nominations for the Inaugural John Stuart Bell Prize for research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications
November 21, 2008
We are pleased to announce the inauguration of a new award, and are ask for your assistance in nominating candidates for the award.
The John Stuart Bell Prize for Research on Fundamental Issues in Quantum Mechanics and their Applications will be awarded every other year, starting in 2009, for significant contributions first published in the 6 years preceding January 1st of the award year. The award is meant to recognize major advances relating to the foundations of quantum mechanics and to the applications of these principles – this covers, but is not limited to, quantum information theory, quantum computation, quantum foundations, quantum cryptography, and quantum control. The award is not intended as a "lifetime achievement" award, but rather to highlight the continuing rapid pace of research in these areas. It is intended to cover even-handedly theoretical and experimental research, both fundamental and applied. The award is funded and managed by the University of Toronto Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC), but an arms-length selection committee will handle the award selection. The membership of the 2009 committee is:
€ Alain Aspect, chair
€ Aephraim Steinberg, ex officio vice-chair
€ Gilles Brassard
€ Richard Hughes
€ Peter Zoller
The award will be presented as part of the biennial CQIQC conference, during which the winner will be invited to deliver a prize lecture.
To nominate a candidate for this award, please email your nomination to Anna Ho, CQIQC administrative assistant, at aho@chem.utoronto.ca The nomination should include the name and affiliation of the nominee, a 1-2 paragraph statement of the importance of the contribution on the basis of which you are making the nomination, and the principal literature citations to this work (which must have been published between January 2003 and December 2008). Self-nomination is prohibited. All nominations received prior to December 25, 2008 will be considered (although the committee will not be bound to restrict itself to these nominations).
Thank-you on behalf of the Bell Prize selection committee
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