• To all participants: Thank you for helping make PQE-2011 one of the best PQE conferences ever!

• Special Issue. To celebrate the 41st PQE, a special issue of the Journal of Modern Optics will be published, with select papers submitted by conference participants. Information can be found here.

• Vote. What was the best talk or poster? Who taught you the most? Who was the best looking presenter? No matter what your criterion, you can now vote for the best presentation at PQE-2011. Honestly, we're not sure what we'll do with this, but voting for the best presentation was suggested to us, so here it is!

  Vote now. To vote, you'll need the password you registered with. If you don't remember it that's no problem, just look for "forgot your password" on the log in screen.

• Winners Announced! The PQE-2011 “Best Abstract” award.

• Dates: PQE-2011 was held January 2-6, 2011.
  • There was a reception on Sunday evening, January 2nd, in honor of the 2011 recipients of the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics: Ron Folman of Ben Gurion University, Israel, Randall Hulet of Rice University, and Mark Kasevich of Stanford University.

  • The conference sessions were Monday, January 3 through Thursday, January 6.

• Conference Program. We have posted the complete conference program which includes a list of all speakers, the schedule of talks, and the abstract book for download.

• Please direct all inquiries to the email address below.

Organizing Committee: Marlan O. Scully and George R. Welch.
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