QCrypt 2017 final call for talk submissions

[QCrypt Steering Committee]

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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