Currently we are living in the so-called ‘Information Age’, driven to an ever greater extent by the merging of communication, information processing, and computing. None of these are possible without a physical infrastructure that depends to a large extent on the use of quantum optics and expertise in the neighboring field of condensed matter physics.
    Upon consideration by the Advisory Panel on Physical and Engineering Science and Technology, NATO’s Assistant Secretary General for Scientific and Environmental Affairs, has announced that the project for the NATO Advanced Study Institute (ASI) on Quantum Communication and Information Technologies, will be held at Bilkent from June 3 to June 14, 2002. The award includes a sum of about 50,000 Euro to support this project, which is undertaken by Prof. Alexander Shumovsky, from the Department of Physics.
    The Award obtained by the Bilkent Physics team for supporting NATO-ASI, is evidence of the international recognition Bilkent has received as a center for research and education in the field of quantum communication and information technologies.
For more information concerning NATO-ASI at Bilkent see: http://www.fen.bilkent.edu.tr/~quantum.