The E.U. - U.S. Workshop on Quantum Information and Coherence Workshop Steering Committee David DiVincenzo, Research Scientist, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Rudolf Gross, Professor of Physics, University of Technology – Munich H. Jeffrey Kimble, William Valentine Professor of Physics, California Institute of Technology Gerhard Rempe, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Robert Schoelkopf, Professor of Applied Physics, Yale University Peter Zoller, Professor, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Innsbruck GDEST Oversight Committee Lewis M. Branscomb, (Chair), Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management emeritus and former Director of the Science, Technology and Public Policy Program in the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government George Bugliarello, President Emeritus of Polytechnic University and Foreign Secretary of the US National Academy of Engineering David R. Challoner, Co-chair of the Executive Committee of the InterAcademy Medical Panel and Foreign Secretary of the US Institute of Medicine Mike Clegg, Donald Bren Professor of Biological Sciences at University of California – Irvine and Foreign Secretary of the US National Academy of Sciences Mildred S. Dresselhaus, Professor of Physics and Electrical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Max Planck Society Staff Berthold Neizert, Head of Division - International Relations, Max-Planck Society Gerhard Rempe, Professor, Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics Britta Dembinski, Division of International Relations, Max Planck Society National Academies Staff Patricia S. Wrightson, Program Director – Policy and Global Affairs Division Tabitha M. Benney, Program Associate – Policy and Global Affairs Division Sponsors Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. German Research Association Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres Max Planck Society Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics U.S. Department of State, Office of the Science and Technology Adviser U.S. National Academies, Policy and Global Affairs Division