Dear all, I am writing to draw your attention to the 1st graduate students only *AQuA Congress 2010 on theoretical and experimental Quantum Information and Computation*. *Dates:* 6th-12th December 2010. *Venue:* Centre for Quantum Technology (CQT) Singapore. *Congress Website:* http://aqua.quantumlah.org/ *Contact:* aqua.congress2010(a)quantumlah.org During December 6th-12th 2010 the CQT Singapore will host the first AQuA grad student congress. AQuA is an initiative of Imperial College (London), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Boston), Institute for Quantum Computing (Waterloo) and Center for Quantum Technologies (Singapore) to foster bonds between institution and to unify education in the fast growing field of Quantum Information. As part of this initiative, we, the grad students of CQT, are organizing the first AQuA congress. This gathering will provide a unique opportunity to present your research to fellow students free from the pressures of a normal conference. As a student from the participating institutes, both experimental and theoretical, you are welcome to join us for the AQuA congress 2010 in Singapore. The five days of the congress will be divided between morning sessions consisting of 20-minute talks by selected graduate students followed by interactive sessions, lab tours, poster sessions and chats with people from CQT. The evening will be devoted to leisure as we show you around our city. For those who are interested there will be a weekend trip to Bintan, a tropical island in Indonesia, after the end of the congress. Accommodation and lots of |free food>+|coffee> will be provided for visiting students, so that local expenses will be minimal. Due to general sponsorship we can avoid any conference fee and the participants have to bear only their travel costs. We invite all participants to present a poster. Here are some important dates to note: *Registration deadline:* 15th October. *Submission deadline for talk abstracts:* 15th October. *Notifications of acceptance:* 2nd November Please kindly spread the word and hope to see you in Singapore. Best Regards, Bess Fang (CQT) on behalf of the organizing committee AQuA Congress 2010 _______________________________________________ qip mailing list qip(a)mit.edu http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/qip