PQE-2012, the 42^nd Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics was held at Snowbird, Utah, USA on January 2-6, 2012.

• There was a reception on Monday evening, January 2^nd in honor of the 2012 recipients of the Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics: Henry Kapteyn of The University of Colorado, Margaret Murnane of The University of Colorado, Jorge Rocca of Colorado State University.

• The conference sessions were Tuesday, January 3 through Friday, January 6, 2012.

• If you have any questions about the conference, please send email to
  

Conference Program:

• Here is the conference program.

• Abstract Book. Warning, these are large downloads!
  • Here is a version including the original PDF abstract files uploaded by the participants (44.2 Megabyte download).
  • Here is a 600 dpi monochrome rendering suitable for printing (43.6 Megabyte download).

Best Abstract Award:

• Here is the announcement of the PQE-2012 Best Abstract Award.

Special Issue:

• In memory of the conference, some speakers are contributing papers to a special issue of The Journal of Modern Optics.

• The special issue will be published early in January of 2013.

Organizing Committee

• Marlan O. Scully and George R. Welch.
  

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