[quantum-info] FW: QCrypt 2017 final call for talk submissions

[Daniel Gottesman]

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From: QCrypt-announce [mailto:qcrypt-announce-bounces at vad1.com] On Behalf
Of QCrypt Steering Committee
Sent: April-25-17 4:05 AM
To: qcrypt-announce at vad1.com
Subject: QCrypt 2017 final call for talk submissions

Dear colleagues,

QCrypt 2017, the 7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography, is
now accepting submissions for talks and posters at
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qcrypt2017

This is a reminder that the talk submission deadline is on Wednesday, 26
April 2017 (in any timezone).

Sincerely,
Christian Schaffner
chair of the QCrypt steering committee

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CALL FOR CONTRIBUTED TALKS AND POSTERS

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

QCrypt 2017 will be held in Cambridge, UK, on Sept. 18-22, 2017. It will
be organized by the Centre for Photonic Systems at the University of
Cambridge.

For more information, see the conference website: http://2017.qcrypt.net/


IMPORTANT DATES

All deadlines are at midnight (in any timezone).

* Talk submission deadline: April 26, 2017
* Talk acceptance notification: June 27, 2017

* Poster submission deadline: July 11, 2017
* Poster acceptance notification: July 25, 2017

* Conference early registration deadline: End of July 2017
* Rump session submission deadline: September 19, 2017, 23:59 UK time
* QCrypt conference: September 18-22, 2017


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.

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.


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 available on the arXiv 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 full-length paper.

Extended abstracts should be submitted electronically using the EasyChair
system:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qcrypt2017


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

Gorjan Alagic (University of Copenhagen) Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt
University) Rotem Arnon-Friedman (ETH Zurich) Charles Ci Wen Lim (Oak
Ridge National Laboratory) Roger Colbeck (University of York) Ivo Pietro
Degiovanni (INRIM Turin) Dirk Englund (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology) Ivette Fuentes (University of Vienna) Stacey Jeffery (CWI
Amsterdam) Elham Kashefi (University of Edinburgh and UPMC CNRS) Hari
Krovi (Raytheon BBN, Cambridge, Massachusetts) Nicola Laurenti (University
of Padova) Anthony Leverrier (INRIA Paris) Marco Lucamarini (Toshiba
Cambridge) Mohsen Razavi (University of Leeds) Hiroki Takesue (NTT) Marco
Tomamichel (University of Technology Sydney) Dominique Unruh (University
of Tartu) Thomas Vidick (California Institute of Technology) (chair) Paolo
Villoresi (University of Padova) (vice chair) Christian Weedbrock
(CipherQ) Feihu Xu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Hugo Zbinden
(University of Geneva)

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