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2005

The 8th International Symposium on the
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics In the Light of New Technology(ISQM-Tokyo '05)

Date August 22-25, 2005
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Themes ・Quantum Coherence in Nano-systems
・Quantum Transport: Spin related Transport, Quantum Hall Effect, Noise, etc.
・Quantum Information and Entanglement
・Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics
Invited Speakers G. Aeppli (U. College London), B. Altshuler (Princeton U.), T. Ando (Tokyo Inst. Tech), D.D. Awschalom (UCSB), R. Blatt (U. Innsbruck), J. Jain (Penn. State U.), S. Katsumoto (U. Tokyo), H. J. Kimble (Caltech), J. Kono (Rice U.), A. H. MacDonald (U. Texas), C.M. Marcus (Harvard U.), J.E. Mooij (Delft U. Tech), V.V. Moshchalkov (Katholieke U. Leuven), Y. Nakamura (NEC), H. Ohno (Tohoku U.), N.P. Ong (Princeton U.), S. Tarucha (U. Tokyo), Y. Tokura (U. Tokyo), A. Tonomura (Hitachi), Y. Yamamoto (Stanford U.), C.N. Yang (Tsinghua U.) and A. Zeilinger (U. Vienna)
Advisory Committee H.J. Kimble (Caltech), S. Kobayashi (Tokyo U. Agri. & Tech.), A.J. Leggett (U. Illinois), J.E. Mooij (Delft U.Tech.), S. Nakajima (ISTEC), N. Osakabe (Hitachi), F. Wilczek (MIT), C.N. Yang (Tsinghua U.) and A. Zeilinger (U. Vienna)
Organizing Committee H. Fukuyama, Chair (Tohoku U.), K. Fujikawa (Nihon U.), Y. Iye (U. Tokyo), N. Nagaosa (U. Tokyo), F. Shimizu (U. Electro-Commun.) H. Takayanagi (NTT), Y.A. Ono (Hitachi) and S. Ishioka (Hitachi)
Sponsors The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

2001

The 7th International Symposium on the
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics In the Light of New Technology (ISQM-Tokyo '01)

Date August 27-30, 2001
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Themes ・Atom Optics, Quantum Optics
・Quantum Computing, Quantum Information and Cryptography
・Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena, Mesoscopic Physics
・Frontiers in Precise Measurements
・Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics
Invited Speakers O. Astafiev (U. Tokyo), B. Barbara(CNRS), A.Y. Cho (Bell Labs.), J. Dalibard (ENS), S. Das Sarma (U. Maryland), A. Furusawa (U. Tokyo), S. Haroche (ENS), S. Inouye (MIT),Y. Iye (ISSP), T. Kawai (Osaka U.), Y. Makhlin (U. Karlsruhe), N. Mio (U. Tokyo), K. Nakamura (KEK), Y. Nakamura (NEC), T. Ono (Osaka U.), C. Sackett (NIST), K. Takayanagi (TIT), S. Takeuchi (Hokkaido U.), A. Tonomura (Hitachi), T. Udem (Max Planck Inst.), Y. Yamamoto (Stanford U.) and A. Zeilinger (U. Vienna)
Advisory Committee H. Ezawa (Gakushuin U.), Y. Imry (Weizmann Inst.), S. Kobayashi (RIKEN), A.J. Leggett (U. Illinois), J.E. Mooij (Delft U.Tech.), N. Osakabe (Hitachi),Y. Yamamoto (Stanford U.), C.N. Yang (SUNY) and A. Zeilinger (U.Vienna)
Organizing Committee H. Fukuyama, Chair (ISSP), K. Fujikawa (U. Tokyo), Y. Iye (ISSP), S. Nakajima (ISTEC-SRL), F. Shimizu (U. Electro-Commun.) and Y.A. Ono (Hitachi)
Sponsors The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.

1998

The 6th International Symposium on the
Foundation of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM-Tokyo '98)

Date August 24-27, 1998
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Themes ・Bose-Einstein Condensation, Laser Cooling, and Atom Interferometry
・Macroscopic Quantum Phenomena
・Mesoscopic Physics
・Quantum Computing, Quantum Information and Cryptography
・Frontiers in Precise Measurements,
・Complex Systems and Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics
Invited Speakers B. Barbara (CNRS), M.H.W. Chan (Penn. State U.), E.M. Chudnovsky (CUNY), D.P. Divicenzo (IBM), A. Ekert (U. Oxford), R.J. Gauber (Harvard U.), D.S. Hall (JILA), S. Haroche (ENS), N. Imoto (NTT), Y. Imry (Weizmann Inst.), S. Katsumoto (U. Tokyo), H.J. Kimble (Caltech), Y. Otani (Tohoku U.), M.L. Roukes (Caltech), G. Schon (U. Karsruhe), F. Shimizu (U. Electro-Commun.), A. Tonomura (Hitachi), E. Varoquaux (U. Paris-Sud), R.A. Webb (U. Maryland), H.A. Weidenmuller (Max-Planck-Inst.), D.J. Wineland (NIST), Y. Yamamoto (Stanford U.) and A. Zeilinger (U. Vienna)
Advisory Committee H. Ezawa (Gakushuin U.), R.J. Glauber (Harvard U.), Y. Imry (Weizmann Inst.), S. Kobayashi (RIKEN), A.J. Leggett (U. Illinois), K. Miyauchi (Hitachi), M. Namiki (Waseda U.), H.A. Weidenmuller (Max-Planck-Inst.), Y. Yamamoto (Stanford U.), C.N. Yang (SUNY) and A. Zee (UCSB)
Organizing Committee H. Fukuyama, Chair (ISSP), K. Fujikawa (U. Tokyo), Y. Iye (U. Tokyo), S. Nakajima (ISTEC-SRL), F. Shimizu (U. Electro-Commun.) and Y.A. Ono (Hitachi)
Sponsors The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Proceedings Quantum Coherence and Decoherence
Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM-Tokyo '98),
August 24-27, 1998,
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Hatoyama, Saitama, Japan.
K. Fujikawa and Y.A. Ono (eds.)
Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1999 (also included in the North-Holland Delta Series)

1997

HARL Workshop on New Challenges in Information Retrieval and Dissemination

The Workshop was held at HARL., with 13 participants from overseas, and 17 speakers giving presentations on topics covering Information Retrieval, Dissemination, User Interface, Parsing and Linguistics, and Knowledge Acquisition and Terminology. Mr. Y. Niwa, from ARL, talked on "Lexical Visualization for Query Navigation"

Date April 7-8, 1997
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Themes Information Retrieval, Dissemination, User Interface, Parsing and Linguistics, and Knowledge Acquisition and Terminology
External Participants Prof. Tsujii (Tokyo Univ.; organizer), Prof. Spark-Jones (Univ. Cambridge), Prof. Tokunaga (Tokyo Inst. of Technology), Mr. Rubinstein (AAAS Science), Prof. Keller (Stanford Univ. Library), Prof. Peters (CSLI, Stanford Univ.), Dr. Takeda (IBM Japan, Ltd.), Prof. Joshi (Univ. Pennsylvania), Dr. Ananiadou (Manchester Metropolitan Univ.), Prof. Pazienza (Univ. Roma, Tor Vergate), Prof. Calzolari (Univ. Pisa), Prof. Needham (Univ. Cambridge; ARL Advisory Board member), Prof. Randell (Univ. Newcastle; ARL Advisory Board member)

1996

HARL Workshop on Light, Gene and Development in Plants

Date November 10-11, 1996
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Participants 66 (42 from Japan, 24 from overseas)
Keynote Speakers P.S. Song (Univ. Nebraska, Lincoln), P.H. Quail, (U.C. Berkeley), E. Schaefer (Albert-Ludwigs-University), T. Cashmore, (Univ. Pennsylvania), G. Neuhaus (Albert-Ludwigs-University), H.G. Nam (Pohang Univ. Sci. & Tech.), S.A. Kay (The Scripps Res Inst.), H. Stoeckel (CNRS/IBMP)
Organizer M. Furuya (ARL, Hitachi, Ltd.)
Proceedings Not available

International Workshop on
New Physics in the Vortex State of the High Temperature Superconductors

Date April 11-13, 1996
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Keynote Speakers T. Claeson (Chalmers), O. Fischer (Geneva), P. Gammel(AT&T), U. Welp (Argonne), E. Zeldov (Weizmann)
Organizer IWPV '96 Organizing Committee
Organizing Committee M. Tachiki (Tohoku Univ.), K. Kitazawa (Univ. Tokyo), G. Crabtree(Argonne)
Proceedings Not available

1995

The 5th International Symposium on the
Foundation of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM-Tokyo '95)

Date August 21-24, 1998
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Invited Speakers S. Chu (Stanford Univ.), D. Eigler (IBM, Almaden), G. Hooft (ITP, Utrecht), S. Kobayashi (Univ. Tokyo), A. Masaike (Kyoto Univ.), T. Satoh (Tohoku Univ.), A. Tonomura (ARL, Hitachi), W.G. Unruh (Univ. British Columbia), R.A. Webb (Univ. Maryland), Y. Yamamoto (Stanford Univ.), C.N. Yang (SUNY, Stony Brook), A. Zee (ITP, UC Santa Barbara)
Sponsors The Physical Society of Japan, The Japan Society of Applied Physics, Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Proceedings QUANTUM COHERENCE AND DECOHERENCE:
Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics in the Light of New Technology (ISQM-Tokyo '95),
August 21-24, 1995,
Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd., Hatoyama, Saitama, Japan.
K. Fujikawa and Y.A. Ono (eds.)
Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1996 (also included in the North-Holland Delta Series)

Symposium on Atomic Scale Technology

Date June 21, 1995
Location Advanced Research Laboratory, Hitachi, Ltd.
Invited Speakers Dr. Rohrer (IBM)