[quantum-info] FW: Workshop on Trustworthy Quantum Information: Call for Submissions and Participation

Daniel Gottesman dgottesman at perimeterinstitute.ca
Tue Feb 17 10:45:56 EST 2015


-----Original Message-----
From: Yaoyun Shi [mailto:shiyy at umich.edu]
Sent: February-16-15 5:14 PM
Cc: team.2015.scientific at tyqi.org
Subject: Workshop on Trustworthy Quantum Information: Call for Submissions
and Participation

Dear Colleagues,

The First International Workshop on Trustworthy Quantum Information will be
held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, from June 28 (Sunday) to July 2 (Thursday)
2015, when the annual Ann Arbor Summer Festival
(a2sf.org) is approaching the finale. The workshop’s website is
TyQI.org/2015/.

Quantum mechanics promises extraordinary capabilities for computation and
cryptography. However, as classical beings, we cannot directly verify
quantum states or quantum operations. How can we trust the integrity of
quantum hardware? To address this challenging question, an area of
Trustworthy Quantum Information has emerged from several recent lines of
research. The objective of this Workshop is to facilitate the formation of a
coherent research subject and its research community from the constituting
topics, which have been pursued separately by different groups of
researchers. The Workshop in addition aims to bridge the gaps between theory
and practice by engaging theorists and experimentalists in the same
discussions. We also welcome participants from the classical information
security community, as our approach may provide a new solution space for
some of the greatest challenges in hardware security. The topics of the
Workshop include, but are not limited to
  * Delegated Quantum Computation
  * Device-independent and Semi-device-independent Quantum Cryptography
  * Nonlocality, Contextuality, and Self-testing
  * Quantum-secure Classical Randomness Extractors

Half of this 4.5-day workshop will be short talks and the other half
breakout sections for free interactions. Parallel to the breakout sessions
will be tutorials explaining in depth some important yet difficult
techniques. An excursion to explore Ann Arbor's summer beauty will take
place in the third afternoon, followed by the workshop dinner. Most talks
are invited. The current list of invited speakers is attached at the end of
this message and will be kept up to date at the workshop website.

Posters reporting original research relevant to the theme of workshop are
sought. Depending on the availability of the speaking slots, a small number
of posters submissions may be invited for oral presentation. The submission
should be emailed to submissions.2015 at tyqi.org with the Subject: TyQI 2015
submission before the deadline. In the body, provide either a link to the
full paper, or attach a one-page abstract, which should state clearly the
main result. Acceptance is based on the relevance to the workshop, the
originality, and the space availability. An author of an accepted poster is
expected to attend the workshop.

Participation is open to all interested researchers. This will be a
self-sponsored event: all participants are expected to pay for his or her
own expenses. There will be no registration fees. Participants are urged to
make travel arrangements as earlier as possible as the popular Ann Arbor
Summer Festival will drive up the prices for travel and lodging long before
it starts in June 12, 2015.

Dates:
  * Poster Submission: April 1, 2015, 5pm EST
  * Notification: by email on or before April 15, 2015
  * Registration: open March 1, 2015, close May 1, 2015 (registration after
the deadline is possible but not guaranteed)
  * Workshop: Sunday June 28, 2015 to Thursday July 2, 2015

Sincerely,

Yaoyun Shi,  on behalf of the organizers

Organizers: Roger Colbeck (York), Xiongfeng Ma (Tsinghua), Stefano Pirandola
(York), Yaoyun Shi (Michigan); contact us through
team.2015.scientific at tyqi.org

Local Arrangements (Michigan): Carl Miller, Mike Newman, Morteza Noshad, and
Yaoyun Shi; contact us through team.2015.local at tyqi.org

Current list of confirmed speakers

Rotem Arnon-Friedman (ETH Zürich)
Ulrik Lund Andersen (Technical University of Denmark) Cedric Bamps
(Université Libre de Bruxelles) Mario Berta (Caltech) or Omar Fawzi (École
Normale Supérieure de Lyon) or Volkher B. Scholz (ETH Zürich) Fernando
G.L.S. Brandao (University College London and Microsoft) Kai-Min Chung
(Academia Sinica) Joseph Fitzsimons (Singapore University of Technology and
Design) Stacey Jeffery (University of Waterloo) Adrian Kent (University of
Cambridge) Charles Ci Wen Lim (University of Geneva) Hoi-Kwong Lo
(University of Toronto) Norbert Lütkenhaus (University of Waterloo) Gilles
Pütz (University of Geneva) Bing Qi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Mohsen
Razavi (University of Leeds) Ben Reichardt (University of Southern
California) Valerio Scarani (National University of Singapore) Marco
Tomamichel (University of Sydney) Philip Walther (University of Vienna)
Stephanie Wehner (Delft University of Technology) Xiaodi Wu (Massachusetts
Institute of Technology) Qiang Zhang (University of Science and Technology
of China) Qiang Zhou (University of Calgary)



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