QCrypt 2013 - Call for submissions (submission deadline: April 20, 2013)

[Vadim Makarov]

[We apologize if you receive this announcement multiple times]

3rd annual conference on quantum cryptography

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 5-9, 2013

Conference website: http://2013.qcrypt.net/

Paper submission (deadline April 20; for posters, deadline May 15):
http://2013.qcrypt.net/submissions/

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 two
conferences took place at ETH Zurich in September 2011 and the National
University of Singapore in September 2012.

QCrypt 2013 will take place at the Institute for Quantum Computing of the
University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, August 5-9, 2013. The
conference will be preceded by the international graduate summer school
for QKD (July 29 - August 2, 2013). More info about the latter at
http://iqc.uwaterloo.ca/conferences/qkd-2013 . Consider attending both
events.

Conference format

QCrypt features invited talks, contributed talks, and a poster session. In
addition, we will also have a select series of focussed tutorials and an
industry panel session.

Important dates

April 20, 2013: deadline for submission of paper abstracts
May 15, 2013: deadline for submission of poster abstracts
June 1, 2013: notice of acceptance
August 5-9: conference
August 10: trip to Niagara Falls

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 in PDF format, 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.
There are no proceedings, thus simultaneous submission to other workshops,
conferences or journals is possible.

For poster submissions, a one-page non-technical PDF abstract is required.

When filling the submission form, please indicate in the comments to the
chair whether your submission is intended for

- oral or poster contribution,
- oral contribution only,
- poster contribution only.

In addition to the extended PDF abstract, a short text abstract should be
provided through the submission form. The text abstract will be printed in
the program.

Paper submission deadline: April 20
Poster submission deadline: May 15
Notification of acceptance: June 1

Submission page: http://2013.qcrypt.net/submissions/

Program Committee:

Harry Buhrman (CWI Amsterdam and Amsterdam University)
Matthias Christandl (ETH Zürich)
Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University) ivan at cs.au.dk - chair
Frédéric Dupuis (Aarhus University)
Artur Ekert (CQT Singapore and Oxford University)
Nicolas Gisin (Université de Genève)
Norbert Lütkenhaus (IQC Waterloo)
Renato Renner (ETH Zürich)
Louis Salvail (Université de Montréal)
Christian Schaffner (University of Amsterdam)
Akihisa Tomita (Hokkaido University)
Gregor Weihs (University of Innsbruck)
Stefan Wolf (USI Lugano)

Steering Committee:

Matthias Christandl (ETH Zürich)
Roger Colbeck (ETH Zürich)
Michele Mosca (IQC Waterloo) michele.mosca at uwaterloo.ca - chair
Louis Salvail (Université de Montréal)
Masahide Sasaki (NICT Tokyo)
Wolfgang Tittel (University of Calgary)
Stephanie Wehner (CQT Singapore)

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 (Los Alamos)
Masahide Sasaki (NICT Tokyo)

See you in Waterloo!

Ivan, Michele, Vadim