7th International Conference on Quantum Cryptography

QCrypt 2017

Sept 18-22, 2017

Cambridge, UK

Cambridge and (Quantum) Cryptography

Babbage Turing Welchman Jozsa

Conference Venue• University’s West Road Concert Hall

• 500m from city centre• 500 seat capacity• Location of Eurocrypt 2012

• Accommodation in centrally located Cambridge Colleges• <1km from venue, close to pubs and restaurants

• Plenty of hotels as alternative

Side Programme• Banquet in St Johns College

• Historic 500 year old Hall

• In your own time ….• Punting, museums, College tours, excursion to Bletchley Park, lab tour

4 Tutorials (90 minutes)

• Douglas Stebila (McMaster University)Practical post-quantum key exchange

• Andrew Shields (Toshiba Cambridge)Core and access QKD networks

• Jamie Sikora (CQT Singapore)Semi-definite programming in quantum cryptography

• Christopher Portmann (ETH Zurich)Composability in quantum cryptography

8 Invited Talks (35 minutes)• Koji Azuma (NTT)

Quantum Network Coding• Anthony Leverrier (INRIA Paris)

Theoretical challenges of CV quantum cryptography• Morgan Mitchell (ICFO)

Integrated quantum random number generator chip• Chengzhi Peng (USTC)

Satellite-Based QKD• Valerio Scarani (CQT)

Self-testing• Wolfgang Tittel (University of Calgary)

Quantum teleportation across a metropolitan fibre network• Dave Touchette (University of Waterloo)

Quantum information complexity• Ian Walmsley (University of Oxford)

Advances in ion trap quantum computers and photonic links

31 Contributed Talks

Selected by the Program Committee, chaired by Thomas Vidick aiming at a well-balanced mix between theory and experiment, covering topics such as

http://2017.qcrypt.net/scientific-program/

• Network Coding• Satellite-QKD• Device-Independence• Ion-Trap Experiments• Quantum Money and

Recycling• CV-QKD

• Communication complexity

• Q Random Number Generators

• Secure Computing• QKD practice

Industry Session & Exhibition

• Andrew Lord, British TelecomWhat is BT doing with QKD?

• Bruno Huttner, idQuantiqueStandards for Quantum Random Number Generators

• Panel Discussion

• Thursday, 21 Sep, 14:00-15:30• Chair: Norbert Lutkenhaus

Scientific Program• 4 tutorials• 8 invited speakers• 31 contributed talks• 2 poster sessions (160 posters)• industry session• public lecture by Simon Singh• after-dinner speech by Sir Peter Knight• rump session, chaired by Bennett & Brassard

http://2017.qcrypt.net/events-in-qcrypt-2017/rump-session/

Committees & SponsorsProgram committee Gorjan Alagic (University of Copenhagen) Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt University) Rotem Arnon-Friedman (ETH Zurich) Charles Ci Wen Lim (National University of Singapore) 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)

Steering committee Anne Broadbent (University of Ottawa) Marcos Curty (University of Vigo) Eleni Diamanti (CNRS, Univ Pierre et Marie Curie) Yi-Kai Liu (NIST / University of Maryland) Norbert Lütkenhaus (IQC, University of Waterloo) Masahide Sasaki (NICT) Christian Schaffner (University of Amsterdam, CWI,

QuSoft) (chair) Qiang Zhang (University of Science and Technology of

China)

Advisory committee Charles H. Bennett (IBM Research) Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal) Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University) Artur Ekert (CQT Singapore and Oxford University) Nicolas Gisin (Université de Genève) Richard Hughes (Unaffiliated)

Industry Session organiser Norbert Lütkenhaus (IQC, University of Waterloo)

Rump Session chairs Charles H. Bennett (IBM Research) Gilles Brassard (Université de Montréal)

Local Organizing committee Richard Penty (University of Cambridge) Adrian Wonfor (University of Cambridge) Victoria Barrett (University of Cambridge) Klitos Andrea (York University Georgia Mortzou (York University)

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Thank you!

We look forward to welcoming you to QCrypt 17

in Cambridge next week

We look forward to welcoming you to QCrypt 17

in Cambridge next week

or then at QCrypt 2018:August 27–31, 2018 in Pudong Shanghaihosted by the University of Science and Technology of China