The summer school is aimed at graduate students and industry researchers who know the basic ideas of quantum information and cryptography and who want to deepen their understanding of the cryptographic context, the theoretical underpinning and the experimental realisations and difficulties. The summer school will last 5 days.
An outline of the schedule is:
Day 1 Introduction to Classical Cryptography and Information Security
Day 2 Quantum Cryptography Overview and Protocols
Day 3 Security
Day 4 Implementations
Day 5 Industry presentations
Invited Lecturers:
Ian Goldberg
Christian Kurtsiefer
Hoi-Kwong Lo
Alfred Menezes
Renato Renner
Valerio Scarani
Douglas Stinson
Invited Industry Presenters:
Audrius Berzanskis (MagiQ)
Thomas Chapuran (Telcordia)
John MacRitchie (OCE)
Bruce Nyman (Princeton Lightwave)
Akihisa Tomita (NEC)
Local Organising Committee:
Jean Christian Boileau
Raymond Laflamme
Norbert Lütkenhaus
Michele Mosca
Attendance is limited with a deadline of June 1st. Early registration is welcome.
The 2nd International Conference on Information Theoretic Security in Calgary will follow the summer school and interested participants can find details at ICITS 2008
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