[quantum-info] FW: QCrypt 2020 Call for Papers

[Daniel Gottesman]

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From: QCrypt-announce <qcrypt-announce-bounces at vad1.com> On Behalf Of Serge
Fehr
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2020 4:42 AM
To: qcrypt-announce at vad1.com
Subject: QCrypt 2020 Call for Papers

Dear QCrypt Friends,

The deadline for submitting contributed talks to QCrypt 2020, the 10th
International Conference on Quantum Cryptography to be held in Amsterdam, is
approaching. Please see below for the key dates and additional information.

KEY DATES

* Talk submission deadline: April 1, 2020
* Talk acceptance notification: May 22, 2020
* Poster submission deadline: June 1, 2020
* Poster acceptance notification: June 15, 2020
* Conference early registration deadline: June 22, 2020
* QCrypt conference: August 10-14, 2020

GOAL OF THE CONFERENCE

QCrypt is a conference for students and researchers working on all aspects
of quantum cryptography. This includes theoretical and experimental research
on the possibilities and limitations of secure communication and computation
with quantum devices, how security can be preserved in the presence of a
quantum computer, and how to achieve long distance quantum communication.

It is the goal of the conference to represent the previous year’s best
results on quantum cryptography, and to support the building of a research
community.

CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND POSTERS

QCrypt solicits submissions of extended abstracts describing recent research
results in quantum cryptography. These will be reviewed by the program
committee, which will select a small number of contributed talks, and a
larger number of poster presentations. The selection will be based on
scientific merit of the submissions, keeping in mind the desire to create an
attractive and balanced program. A small number of submissions may be
upgraded to invited talks at the discretion of the PC chair and of the
steering committee.

In line with the goal of showcasing the best results each year from all
subfields, the conference has no published proceedings. Yet, contributed
talks are highly competitive. QCrypt welcomes the submission of any
interesting and important result, while allowing researchers from a wide
range of disciplines to pursue publication in any venue appropriate to their
field.

STUDENT PAPER PRIZE

Since 2011, QCrypt features a prize for the best student submission. A
submission is eligible for the student prize if and only if the main
author(s) is/are a student(s) at the time of the submission, will present
the work at QCrypt, and further a significant portion of the work must have
been done by said student(s), including contributions to the key ideas.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program committee list can be found via
https://2020.qcrypt.net/team/#program-committee.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

An extended abstract should be 2-3 pages in A4 or letter size PDF, using
reasonable margins and at least 11pt font. It should give a non-technical,
clear and insightful description of the results and main ideas, their
impact, and their importance to quantum cryptography.

For a “poster only” submission, a one-page non-technical PDF is sufficient
as the extended abstract.

The extended abstract may refer to technical details which are presented
elsewhere. In particular, authors may include citations to a full version of
the paper that is either published, available on arXiv.org or provided as an
attachment (links to full versions on personal webpages are not accepted).
This is strongly recommended for theory submissions to help the peer-review
process. The extended abstract should not be a compressed version of the
full-length paper.

Extended abstracts should be submitted electronically, the submission link
will soon be open and available at https://2020.qcrypt.net/call/ .

Best regards,
Serge Fehr and Qiang Zhang, on behalf of the QCrypt steering committee


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