Organizers: William Brinkman, Robert Calderbank, Gerald Gilbert, Shivaji Sondhi

The symposium is part of the year long Frontiers in Quantum Computing Program of the PCTP.

Quantum computers offer the remarkable prospect of being capable of solving problems that would otherwise be intractable. In order to realize this prospect, though, it will be necessary to design quantum computers that can operate fault tolerantly in the presence of the inevitable errors that arise in the physical processes of quantum computation. The Symposium on Problems in Fault Tolerance will bring together leading researchers in the field for the purpose of addressing the pressing issues associated to achieving fault tolerance in quantum computers

The program continued in 2008-2009. Events can be seen here.