21 January 2005
9 am - 5 pm
Rozsa Centre, University of Calgary
Everyone welcome. Registration is required.

University Student Contest. Sponsored by General Dynamics Canada.
“What do you think will be a significant impact of quantum information science?”
Write a one-page, single-spaced text that creatively addresses the question. The winner will receive airfare to Calgary plus two nights accommodation (20-21 January 2005) to attend the Quantum Information Science Festival. Deadline for entry extended: 20 December 2004. Open to university students.

High School Student Contest.
“What do you think will be a significant impact of quantum information science?”
Write a one-page, single-spaced text that creatively addresses the question above. Two winners will receive $100 each and dinner with guest speakers. Deadline for entry: 15 December 2004. Open to grade 11 and 12 students in Calgary. Winner will be notified by 4 January 2005.

Program
9:00 am	Welcoming remarks / student contest winner
9:15 am	Steve Woolgar Professor of Sciology at the University of Oxford. He is the author of several well-known books on the social context of science, including the now classic Laboratory Life.
10:15 am	Bob Gelfond Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MagiQ Techologies, a company pioneering the commercializing of quantum information processing. He was a first-round investor in Amazon.com and a senior Wall Street executive.
11:15 am	Launch ceremony followed by lunch
1:00 pm	Leonard Schulman Director of the Center for the Mathematics of Information and member of the Institute for Quantum Information at the California Institute of Technology.
1:50 pm	Raymond Laflamme Director of the Institute for Quantum Computing and founding member of the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo. He was responsible with Don Page for having changed Stephen Hawking's mind on the reversal of the directon of time in a contracting universe.
2:40 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Daniel Gottesman Research scientist at the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario, working on quantum computation and cryptography. He was named one of MIT Technology Review's Top Young Innovators for 2003.
4:00 pm	Reception followed by a tour of the facilities of the Institute.
Financial support for this festival is gratefully acknowledged from the Alberta Informatics Circle of Research Excellence, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, Faculty of Communication and Culture at the University of Calgary.