[quantum-info] FW: QCrypt 2016 - Call for Papers

Daniel Gottesman dgottesman at perimeterinstitute.ca
Thu Mar 17 12:34:17 EDT 2016


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QCRYPT 2016 - CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND POSTERS

The annual conference on quantum cryptography (QCrypt) solicits
submissions for contributed talks and posters.

QCrypt 2016 will be held in Washington, DC, on Sept. 12-16, 2016. It will
be organized by the Joint Center for Quantum Information and Computer
Science (QuICS) at the University of Maryland.

For more information, see the conference web site: http://2016.qcrypt.net/



IMPORTANT DATES

* Talk submission deadline: April 29, 2016
* Talk acceptance notification: June 24, 2016

* Poster submission deadline: July 1, 2016
* Poster acceptance notification: July 13, 2016

* Conference early registration deadline: July 22, 2016
* Hot topics submission deadline: Aug. 26, 2016
* QCrypt conference: Sept. 12-16, 2016



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. The conference includes, but is not limited to, research on
quantum key distribution.

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.

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 and will
present the work at QCrypt, and further a significant portion of the work
(at least 60%) must have been done by said student(s), including the
majority of the key ideas.



PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Matthias Christandl (University of Copenhagen) (chair) Hugo Zbinden
(University of Geneva) (vice chair) Antonio Acin (ICFO Barcelona) Romain
Alléaume (Télécom ParisTech) Ulrik Lund Andersen (Technical University of
Denmark) Nicolas Brunner (University of Geneva) Claude Crepeau (McGill
University) Frederic Dupuis (Masaryk University) Mikio Fujiwara (NICT of
Japan) Warren Grice (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Iordanis Kerenidis
(University Paris Diderot) Masato Koashi (University of Tokyo) Antia
Lamas-Linares (University of Texas / National University of Singapore)
Carl Miller (University of Michigan) Michele Mosca (University of
Waterloo) Maris Ozols (University of Cambridge) Louis Salvail (University
of Montreal) Mark Thompson (University of Bristol) Giuseppe Vallone
(University of Padova) Feihu Xu (MIT) Qiang Zhang (University of Science
and Technology of China)



SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS

An Extended Abstract should be 2-3 pages in A4 or letter size and can be
in an arbitrary style in PDF. It should describe a non-technical, clear
and insightful description of the results and main ideas, their impact,
and their importance to quantum cryptography.

Technical details can be referred in the Extended Abstract (such as citing
arXiv papers) or provided as an attachment. This is strongly recommended
for theory submissions to help the peer reviewing process. The Extended
Abstract should not be a compressed version of the technical exposition of
the paper. For “Poster only” submission, a one-page non-technical PDF is
sufficient as the Extended Abstract.

Extended abstracts should be submitted electronically through the
EasyChair system. Detailed instructions will be posted in March 2016 on
the conference web site: http://2016.qcrypt.net/



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