Dear Colleagues,

The preliminary programme for the Quantum Machine Learning Workshop 18-22 July 2016 at the Palm Dune Beach Lodge in South Africa is now online: http://www.quantummachinelearning.org/programme.html. We allocated plenty of time for talks and breaks in order to facilitate a focussed and intimate discussion. The talks start on Monday afternoon and end on Friday midday to allow for convenient travel arrangements.

The keynote speakers are (in alphabetical order):

The 2016 International Summer School on Quantum Information Computing & Control (QuICC) will be held between the 29th August and 2nd September at Lancaster University. This event is organised by students from the doctoral training centres at Imperial College London. It aims to bring together experimental and theoretical physicists studying quantum phenomena in a variety of systems.

Many-body physics with photons and polaritons is a highly interdisciplinary field, merging diverse areas such as nano-photonics, quantum optics, condensed matter physics, and quantum technologies. The inherent accessibility to local observables, and the ability to probe out-of-equilibrium phenomena make driven many-body photonic systems especially promising for a variety of applications in quantum simulations and quantum computing, as well as in materials science and optical circuitry.