[quantum-info] FW: QCRYPT 2012 - Call for submissions

[Daniel Gottesman]

*From:* dorosw at gmail.com [mailto:dorosw at gmail.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephanie
Wehner
*Sent:* April 26, 2012 5:49 AM
*To:* qcrypt2012 at quantumlah.org
*Subject:* QCRYPT 2012 - Call for submissions



Dear colleagues,


(apologies should you receive this email multiple times)

Please distribute the following call for submissions to your

group/institute and interested colleagues. Thanks a lot!

Kind regards,

Stephanie


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*QCRYPT 2012 - Call for submissions*

*Singapore, 10-14 September*

2nd Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography

*Conference Website:* http://www.qcrypt.net
*Paper Submission (deadline 20 May):*
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qcrypt2012

Quantum cryptography aims to achieve security from fundamental physical
principles, such as the quantum mechanical phenomena of entanglement and
Heisenberg's uncertainty principle. In the last few years significant
progress has been made in the theoretical understanding of quantum
cryptography and its technological feasibility has been demonstrated
experimentally. Quantum cryptography is therefore regarded as one of the
most promising candidates for a future quantum technology.

QCRYPT is a new conference series on Quantum Cryptography. The first event
took place at ETH Zurich September 2011, and was a resounding success with
nearly 140 participants both from theoretical and experimental research
groups, making it the largest conferences in this area. The second event
will take place at the National University of Singapore.

QCRYPT is followed by the satellite workshop Japan-Singapore Workshop on
multi-user quantum networks, 17th-20th September 2012, CQT Singapore,
organized by Masahito Hayashi and Andreas Winter.

*Conference format*

QCRYPT features invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster session. In
addition, we will also have a select series of focus tutorials this year to
ease interaction between theory and experiment. As last year, there will
also be an industry panel session.

*Important dates*

*Paper submission deadline: 20 May (23:59 SST, ie in american samoa) *
Notification of acceptance: 6 July

Poster submission deadline: 1 August

*Submission information*

Submissions of abstracts for contributed papers are sought in both
theoretical as well as experimental quantum cryptography and related
fields. We encourage submissions from related areas such as non-locality
and information theory. The submission to QCRYPT should consist of 2-3
pages, containing a non-technical, clear and insightful description of the
results and main ideas, their impact, and their importance to quantum
cryptography. For theoretical work, the submission should direct the reader
to a technical version of the work (this should preferably be online but
otherwise can be provided as an attachment). The submission should not
consist of a compressed version of the technical exposition of the paper,
but instead should facilitate the reading of the technical version and help
the program committee assess its importance.

The 2-3 page abstracts of the accepted contributed papers will be posted on
the QCRYPT 2012 website. *There are no proceedings,* and simultaneous
submission to other workshops, conferences or journals is possible.

*Programme Committee:*

Michael Ben-Or (Hebrew University)
Serge Fehr (CWI Amsterdam)
*Patrick Hayden (chair) (McGill University) *
Thomas Jennewein (IQC Waterloo)
Robert Koenig (IBM Research)
Christian Kurtsiefer (CQT Singapore)
Norbert Lutkenhaus (IQC Waterloo)
Stefano Pironio (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Thomas Vidick (MIT)
Hugo Zbinden (University of Geneva)
*
Steering Committee:*

Matthias Christandl (ETH Zurich)
Roger Colbeck (Perimeter Institute)
Michele Mosca (IQC Waterloo)
Renato Renner (ETH Zurich)
Louis Salvail (University of Montreal)
Wolfgang Tittel (University of Calgary)
Stephanie Wehner (chair) (National University of Singapore)

*Advisory Committee:

*Charles H. Bennett (IBM Research)
Gilles Brassard (University of Montreal)
Ivan Damgaard (University of Aarhus)
Artur Ekert (CQT/U. of Oxford)
Nicolas Gisin (Geneva University)
Richard Hughes (Los Alamos)
Masahide Sasaki (NICT)


See you in Singapore!
Stephanie

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Join us again next year:
QCRYPT 2012 - Second Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography
September 10-14, 2012
Singapore

Centre for Quantum Technologies
National University of Singapore
http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg/~wehner/
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