The "11th Central-European Workshop on Quantum Optics" will be held this year from July 18 to 20 in Trieste, Italy. It will be on the weekend following the conference "Laser Physics 2004" that is held at Abdus Salam ICTP, Miramare, Trieste.

The workshop is scheduled to start in the morning of Sunday, July 18, and to end after lunch on Tuesday, July 20. A banquet will be organized on the evening of July 19.

The registration fee will be 100,- Euro and should be paid on arrival on Sunday. It contains coffee breaks, the program booklet, and the banquet on July 19.

As of now we already have a preliminary but not yet complete list of invited speakers:

• M. Benedict (Szeged)
• J. Bergou (New York)
• V. Buzek (Bratislava)
• M. Hillery (New York)
• A. Miranowicz (Poznan)
• H. Moya-Cessa (Puebla)
• A. Napoli (Palermo)
• J. Perina Jr. (Olomouc)
• A. Shumovsky (Ankara)
• P. Toschek (Hamburg)
• I. Walmsley (Oxford)

There will be a prize of 1000,- Euros for the best abstract funded by CNRS France (Director J. Maruani) and organized by N. Rahman. Participants who would like to take part are required to come from an Eastern-European country and to be maximally 40 years old. Besides the abstract also a CV should be send to cewqo@dsch.units.it.

We welcome the submission of abstracts for contributed talks or posters. The abstracts should contain title, list of authors, affiliation and summary (max. one page). It should be send as Word or LaTeX file to the following email address with subject "CEWQO Abstract": cewqo@dsch.units.it

We are looking forward seeing you in Trieste.

Organizers:

• Naseem Rahman (Trieste)
• Sascha Wallentowitz (Rostock)