QCrypt 2020 Call for Papers

[Serge Fehr]

Dear QCrypt Friends,

The deadline for submitting contributed talks to QCrypt 2020, the 10th
International Conference on Quantum Cryptography to be held in
Amsterdam, is approaching. Please see below for the key dates and
additional information.
 
KEY DATES

* Talk submission deadline: April 1, 2020
* Talk acceptance notification: May 22, 2020
* Poster submission deadline: June 1, 2020
* Poster acceptance notification: June 15, 2020
* Conference early registration deadline: June 22, 2020
* QCrypt conference: August 10-14, 2020
 
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. A small number of
submissions may be upgraded to invited talks at the discretion of the PC
chair and of the steering committee.

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.

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, will
present the work at QCrypt, and further a significant portion of the
work must have been done by said student(s), including contributions to
the key ideas.

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Program committee list can be found via
https://2020.qcrypt.net/team/#program-committee.

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 either published, available on arXiv.org or
provided as an attachment (links to full versions on personal webpages
are not accepted). This is strongly recommended for theory submissions
to help the peer-review process. The extended abstract should not be a
compressed version of the full-length paper.

Extended abstracts should be submitted electronically, the submission
link will soon be open and available at https://2020.qcrypt.net/call/ .

Best regards,
Serge Fehr and Qiang Zhang, on behalf of the QCrypt steering committee