Program 

08:00-09:00          Registration and get together.

09:00-09:15          Welcome    Aharon J. Agranat (Director of the Brojde 
                             Center for Innovation in Engineering and Computer Science).

09:15-09:30          Greetings

09:30-10:15          Michael Ben-Or (The Benin School of Engineering and 
                             Computer Science, The Hebrew University). 
                             Plenary Review: Directions in Quantum Computing

10:15-10:45          Barak Dayan (Dept. of Chemistry, The Weizmann Institute of Science).
                             Photon-photon Interactions with single atoms coupled to chip-based microresonators

10:45-11:15          Break

11:15-12:00          Tobias Schätz (Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics,
                             Garching, Germany)
                             The stuff ion-trapper's dreams are made of

12:00-12:30          Roee Ozeri (Physics of Complex Systems, The Weizmann
                             Institute of Science).
                             Narrow linewidth diode laser for high fidelity ion-qubit
                             manipulation

12:30-13:00          Yossi Paltiel (Dept. of Applied Physics, The Hebrew University). 
                             Room Temperature Hybrid Nano Computer- A New 
                             Perspective for applying Quantum Mechanics in Classical
                             "Computing"

13:00-14:15          Lunch

14:15-15:00          Terry G. Rudolph (Imperial College, London, UK).
                             The optical route to quantum computing

15:00-15:30          Nadav Katz (Racah Institute of Physics, The Hebrew
                             University).
                             The well-tempered 50 Ohm atom – superconducting qubits
                             and beyond

15:30-16:00          David Gershoni (Dept. of Physics, Technion).
                             Radiative cascades in charged and neutral quantum dots

16:00-16:45          Mirko Lobino (Department of Physics, Bristol University).
                             Optical implementation of quantum information

16:45-17:00         Summary and closing remarks