Quantum Optics V Playa del Carmen, Mexico November 22-26, 2010 Quantum Optics I was held in Santiago de Chile, in the year 2000. It was thought as the start of a series of conferences through Latin America that would have a good component of 'local' researchers working in the area. Last Quantum Optics conferences took place in: Cozumel, Mexico (II), Pucón, Chile (III), and Florianópolis, Brazil (IV). Quantum Optics V will be held in Playa del Carmen, Mexico and will provide a forum to discuss many developments in laser physics and quantum optics, such as quantum optical realizations of quantum information processing, trapped ions, atom optics, quantum computing, and quantum state reconstruction among others. Steering Committee Miguel Orszag (Chile) Luiz Davidovich (Brazil) Arturo Lezama (Uruguay) Héctor Moya-Cessa (Mexico) Juan Pablo Paz (Argentina) Local Committee Héctor Moya-Cessa (INAOE, Puebla) Luis A. Orozco (University of Maryland) Andrei Klimov, (Universidad de Guadalajara) Alfred U’Ren (ICN – UNAM, Mexico City) Scientific Committee Octavio Castaños, Rocío Jáuregui, José Luis Lucio, Wolfgang P. Schleich, Sascha Wallentowitz Invited speakers: Vanderlei S. Bagnato (U. de Sao Paulo, Brazil) Pablo BarberisBlostein (UNAM, Mexico) Janos Bergou (CUNY, USA) Vladímir Bužek (Slovak Aacdemy of Sciences, Slovakia) Luiz Davidovich (Universidad Federal de Río de Janeiro, Brazil) Joseph H. Eberly (Rochester University, USA) Marco Genovese (INRiM, Italy) Rocío Jáuregui (UNAM, Mexico) Igor Jex (CTUPrague, Czesch Republic) Myungshik Kim (Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland) Andrei Klimov (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico) Peter L. Knight (Imperial College, UK) Gershon Kurizki (Weizmann Institute, Israel) Gerd Leuchs (MPI-Erlangen, Germany) Alfredo Luis (UCM, Spain) Luis A. Orozco (University of Maryland, USA) Miguel Orszag (PUC-Santiago, Chile) Sebastião Pádua (UFMG, Brazil) Juan Pablo Paz (UBA, Argentina) Luis L. SánchezSoto (UCM, Spain) Isabel Sáinz (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico) Wolfgang P. Schleich (Universitaet Ulm, Germany) Thomas Seligman (UNAM, Mexico) Dominique Spehner (UJF, France) Alfred U’Ren (UNAM, Mexico) Werner Vogel (Universitaet Rostock, Germany) Sascha Wallentowitz (PUC-Santiago, Chile) Suhail Zubairy (TAMU, USA) Information: hmmc@inaoep. mx Conference fee will include hotel (5 nights) + meals. There will be travel grants for young scientists.