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<span lang="EN-CA">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span>
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lang="EN-CA">We would like to draw your attention to the "
International Workshop on Quantum LDPC Codes", which will
take place at Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics,
Waterloo, Canada from Monday, July 14 – Wednesday, July
16, 2014. Please forward this message to anyone who might
be interested.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-CA">The workshop will
bring together researchers working on quantum LDPC codes,
including the surface codes. All aspects related to such
codes are of interest, including code constructions,
syndrome decoding algorithms, bounds on the parameters,
fault-tolerant processing, thresholds with different noise
models, possible implementations, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-CA">Registration
deadline: Friday, June 13, 2014.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-CA">Please register on
the conference website:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-CA"><a
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href="http://link.perimeterinstitute.ca/c/306/8771c8e4f96a640c0f4d131c282338f47b3330ca8de48739cdded2da11af8424">http://www.perimeterinstitute.ca/conferences/international-workshop-quantum-ldpc-codes</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-CA">We hope that you
will be able to take part in this exciting occasion and
look forward to welcoming you this July in Waterloo!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span lang="EN-CA">The scientific
organizing committee:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA">Daniel Gottesman,
Perimeter Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA">David Poulin,
University of Sherbrooke<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA">John Preskill,
California Institute of Technology <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA">Leonid Pryadko,
University of California, Riverside <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><span lang="EN-CA">Jean-Pierre
Tillich, INRI<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA">Respectfully,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA">Daniel Gottesman<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA">Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA">31 Caroline St. N.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA">Waterloo, ON<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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lang="EN-CA">(519) 569-7600<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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