Singapore, 10-14 September
2nd Annual Conference on Quantum Cryptography
Conference Website: http://www.qcrypt.net
Paper Submission (deadline 20 May):
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qcrypt2012
Quantum cryptography aims to achieve security from fundamental
physical principles, such as the quantum mechanical phenomena of
entanglement and Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. In the last few
years significant progress has been made in the theoretical
understanding of quantum cryptography and its technological
feasibility has been demonstrated experimentally. Quantum cryptography
is therefore regarded as one of the most promising candidates for a
future quantum technology.
QCRYPT is a new conference series on Quantum Cryptography. The first
event took place at ETH Zurich September 2011, and was a resounding
success with nearly 140 participants both from theoretical and
experimental research groups, making it the largest conferences in
this area. The second event will take place at the National University
of Singapore.
QCRYPT is followed by the satellite workshop Japan-Singapore Workshop
on multi-user quantum networks, 17th-20th September 2012, CQT
Singapore, organized by Masahito Hayashi and Andreas Winter.
Conference format
QCRYPT features invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster
session. In addition, we will also have a select series of focus
tutorials this year to ease interaction between theory and experiment.
As last year, there will also be an industry panel session.
Important dates
Paper submission deadline: 20 May (23:59 SST, ie in american samoa)
Notification of acceptance: 6 July
Poster submission deadline: 1 August
Submission information
Submissions of abstracts for contributed papers are sought in both
theoretical as well as experimental quantum cryptography and related
fields. We encourage submissions from related areas such as
non-locality and information theory. The submission to QCRYPT should
consist of 2-3 pages, containing a non-technical, clear and insightful
description of the results and main ideas, their impact, and their
importance to quantum cryptography. For theoretical work, the
submission should direct the reader to a technical version of the work
(this should preferably be online but otherwise can be provided as an
attachment). The submission should not consist of a compressed version
of the technical exposition of the paper, but instead should
facilitate the reading of the technical version and help the program
committee assess its importance.
The 2-3 page abstracts of the accepted contributed papers will be
posted on the QCRYPT 2012 website. There are no proceedings, and
simultaneous submission to other workshops, conferences or journals is
possible.
Programme Committee:
Michael Ben-Or (Hebrew University)
Serge Fehr (CWI Amsterdam)
Patrick Hayden (chair) (McGill University)
Thomas Jennewein (IQC Waterloo)
Robert Koenig (IBM Research)
Christian Kurtsiefer (CQT Singapore)
Norbert Lutkenhaus (IQC Waterloo)
Stefano Pironio (Universite Libre de Bruxelles)
Thomas Vidick (MIT)
Hugo Zbinden (University of Geneva)
Steering Committee:
Matthias Christandl (ETH Zurich)
Roger Colbeck (Perimeter Institute)
Michele Mosca (IQC Waterloo)
Renato Renner (ETH Zurich)
Louis Salvail (University of Montreal)
Wolfgang Tittel (University of Calgary)
Stephanie Wehner (chair) (National University of Singapore)
Advisory Committee:
Charles H. Bennett (IBM Research)
Gilles Brassard (University of Montreal)
Ivan Damgaard (University of Aarhus)
Artur Ekert (CQT/U. of Oxford)
Nicolas Gisin (Geneva University)
Richard Hughes (Los Alamos)
Masahide Sasaki (NICT)
