The Nature is always changed dynamically even in quantum mechanics. Quantum walks, which are quantum-mechanical analogues of random walks, are promising toy models to understand quantum dynamics. Surprisingly, these models can be experimentally demonstrated in some physical models. This workshop will be open for interdisciplinary researchers from the theoretical and experimental sides on the discrete-time and continuous-time quantum walks, for examples, mathematics, physics, quantum information, and statistical mechanics. The organizers strongly encourage young researchers to actively join us to this workshop.

This is the series of the workshops on quantum walks as
0th Workshop: March 29th - 30th, 2011 at Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan (cancelled due to earthquake) http://www.th.phys.titech.ac.jp/~shikano/dtqw/
1st Workshop: November 7th - 10th, 2011 at Instituto de Fisica Corpuscular, Valencia, Spain http://ific.uv.es/~perez/DTQW_Valencia.html
2nd Workshop: November 24th - 26th, 2012 at Okazaki Conference Center, Okazaki, Japan http://qm.ims.ac.jp/qdqw/
3rd Workshop: November 11th-15th, 2013 at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy http://www.crm.sns.it/event/279/
4th Workshop: November 24th-28th, 2014 at Pumula Beach Hotel, Hibberdene, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa http://quantum.ukzn.ac.za/events/QSQW2014

Organizers:
Norio Konno (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Masato Takei (Yokohama National University, Japan)
Nobuaki Obata (Tohoku University, Japan)
Etsuo Segawa (Tohoku University, Japan)
Yusuke Ide (Kanagawa University, Japan)
Takuya Machida (Meiji University, Japan)
Yutaka Shikano (Institute of Molecular Science, National Institutes of Natural Science, Japan, Institute for Quantum Studies, Chapman University, USA, and Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)