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