[quantum-info] FW: QCrypt 2015 Submission Deadline Approaching (April 27) & Complete Invited Speakers List

[Daniel Gottesman]

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From: QCrypt-announce [mailto:qcrypt-announce-bounces at vad1.com] On Behalf
Of Masahide Sasaki
Sent: April-17-15 5:17 AM
To: qcrypt-announce at vad1.com
Subject: QCrypt 2015 Submission Deadline Approaching (April 27) & Complete
Invited Speakers List

5th international conference
 on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt 2015)
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Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo, Japan
September 28 - October 2, 2015
http://2015.qcrypt.net/



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Deadlines:
 Submission for talks: April 27
 Early poster submission: April 27
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Dear Colleagues,

1. Submission deadlines

This is a kind reminder that the submission deadline for talks is April
27.

For poster submission, the deadline is June 29. Nevertheless, for those
who are aiming for poster presentation and need some time to apply for
visa and get things settled, we provide an option of early poster
submission. For posters submitted BEFORE April 27, we will send the
notification of acceptance (or rejection) by June 22.

All submissions should be made online: http://2015.qcrypt.net/submissions/

We hope to see you in Tokyo!


2. A complete invited speakers list

We are happy to announce that this year as well, we have this list of
splendid invited speakers of QCrypt 2015.

[Tutorials]
*Johannes A. Buchmann (Technical University of Darmstadt) *Iordanis
Kerenidis (Universite Paris Diderot) *Hugues De Riedmatten (ICFO) *Akihisa
Tomita (Hokkaido University)

[Keynote Speaker]
*Nicolas Gisin (Universite de Geneve)

[Invited Speakers]
*Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt University) *Liang Jiang (Yale University)
*Yael Tauman Kalai (Microsoft) *Carl A. Miller (University of Michigan)
*Michele Mosca (IQC, University of Waterloo) *Jeremy O'brien (University
of Bristol) *Graeme Smith (IBM Research) *Rupert Ursin (IQOQI, University
of Vienna) *Hugo Zbinden (Universite de Geneve)

[After-dinner talk]
*Yoshihisa Yamamoto (National Institute of Informatics)

[Public lecture]
*Artur Ekert (University of Oxford/Singapore National University) *Kae
Nemoto (National Institute of Informatics)

[Panel discussion moderator/summary talk] *Charles H. Bennett (IBM
Research) *Gilles Brassard (Universite de Montreal)



Sincerely yours,

Masahide Sasaki
on behalf of the Organizing Committees of QCrypt 2015 and UQCC 2015


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Conference Secretariat
c/o ILCC Co., Ltd.
e-mail: qcrypt2015 at ilcc.com
Tel: +81-3-5562-3677
Fax: +81-3-5562-3666



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More about QCrypt 2015 and UQCC 2015
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Important dates related to submissions for QCrypt 2015:

Submission of talks deadline: April 27
Notification of acceptance for talks: June 22 Notification of acceptance
for early poster submissions: June 22 Submission of posters deadline: June
29 Notification of acceptance for posters: July 13


QCrypt 2015 will be a 4.5 day conference including oral sessions with
invited, tutorial, and contributed talks, poster session, industrial panel
discussion, and public lecture.
The scope of the conference includes theoretical and experimental research
on the possibilities and limitations of secure communication and
computation

with quantum mechanical devices or in the presence of quantum mechanical
devices (the conference includes but is not limited to research on quantum
key distribution (QKD)).

Website:
http://2015.qcrypt.net/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/qcrypt
Google+:
https://plus.google.com/114952518966162474110/posts
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/QCrypt2015


UQCC 2015:
In September 28th morning, we plan to have another half-day conference,
Updating Quantum Cryptography and Communications 2015 (UQCC 2015) at the
same place as QCrypt 2015. The participants will be able to witness the
state-of-the-art of the QKD network operating in Tokyo metropolitan area
(Tokyo QKD Network) and its possible business solutions.
The participant of QCrypt 2015 will be automatically registered as a
participant of UQCC 2015.

UQCC 2015 (conference website):
http://2015.uqcc.org/
The Project UQCC (Tokyo QKD Network):
http://www.uqcc.org/