QCrypt 2015 Submission Deadline Approaching (April 27) & Complete Invited Speakers List

[Masahide Sasaki]

5th international conference
 on Quantum Cryptography (QCrypt 2015)
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Hitotsubashi Hall, Tokyo, Japan
September 28 - October 2, 2015
http://2015.qcrypt.net/



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Deadlines: 
 Submission for talks: April 27
 Early poster submission: April 27
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Dear Colleagues,

1. Submission deadlines

This is a kind reminder that the submission deadline for talks 
is April 27. 

For poster submission, the deadline is June 29. Nevertheless, 
for those who are aiming for poster presentation and need some time
to apply for visa and get things settled, we provide an option 
of early poster submission. For posters submitted BEFORE April 27, 
we will send the notification of acceptance (or rejection) by June 22. 

All submissions should be made online: http://2015.qcrypt.net/submissions/

We hope to see you in Tokyo!


2. A complete invited speakers list

We are happy to announce that this year as well,
we have this list of splendid invited speakers of QCrypt 2015. 

[Tutorials]
*Johannes A. Buchmann (Technical University of Darmstadt)
*Iordanis Kerenidis (Universite Paris Diderot)
*Hugues De Riedmatten (ICFO)
*Akihisa Tomita (Hokkaido University)

[Keynote Speaker]
*Nicolas Gisin (Universite de Geneve)

[Invited Speakers]
*Erika Andersson (Heriot-Watt University)
*Liang Jiang (Yale University)
*Yael Tauman Kalai (Microsoft)
*Carl A. Miller (University of Michigan)
*Michele Mosca (IQC, University of Waterloo)
*Jeremy O'brien (University of Bristol)
*Graeme Smith (IBM Research)
*Rupert Ursin (IQOQI, University of Vienna)
*Hugo Zbinden (Universite de Geneve)

[After-dinner talk]
*Yoshihisa Yamamoto (National Institute of Informatics)

[Public lecture]
*Artur Ekert (University of Oxford/Singapore National University)
*Kae Nemoto (National Institute of Informatics)

[Panel discussion moderator/summary talk]
*Charles H. Bennett (IBM Research)
*Gilles Brassard (Universite de Montreal)



Sincerely yours,

Masahide Sasaki
on behalf of the Organizing Committees of QCrypt 2015 and UQCC 2015


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e-mail: qcrypt2015 at ilcc.com
Tel: +81-3-5562-3677
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More about QCrypt 2015 and UQCC 2015
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Important dates related to submissions for QCrypt 2015:

Submission of talks deadline: April 27
Notification of acceptance for talks: June 22
Notification of acceptance for early poster submissions: June 22
Submission of posters deadline: June 29
Notification of acceptance for posters: July 13


QCrypt 2015 will be a 4.5 day conference including oral sessions 
with invited, tutorial, and contributed talks, poster session, 
industrial panel discussion, and public lecture. 
The scope of the conference includes theoretical and experimental research 
on the possibilities and limitations of secure communication and computation

with quantum mechanical devices or in the presence of quantum mechanical 
devices (the conference includes but is not limited to research on 
quantum key distribution (QKD)).

Website:
http://2015.qcrypt.net/
Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/qcrypt
Google+:
https://plus.google.com/114952518966162474110/posts
Twitter:
https://twitter.com/QCrypt2015


UQCC 2015:
In September 28th morning, we plan to have another half-day conference, 
Updating Quantum Cryptography and Communications 2015 (UQCC 2015) 
at the same place as QCrypt 2015. The participants will be able to 
witness the state-of-the-art of the QKD network operating in Tokyo 
metropolitan area (Tokyo QKD Network) and its possible business solutions. 
The participant of QCrypt 2015 will be automatically registered as 
a participant of UQCC 2015. 

UQCC 2015 (conference website): 
http://2015.uqcc.org/ 
The Project UQCC (Tokyo QKD Network):
http://www.uqcc.org/