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Workshop on Quantum Telecommunications

The Workshop on Quantum Telecommunications will be held on 15-17 May 2013, in Lisbon, and aims at disseminating the latest theoretical and experimental results in quantum telecommunications, quantum information and quantum cryptography, in an informal setting, with plenty of time for discussions. The number of participants is limited.

The workshop will take place at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT), a national research lab in Lisbon, Portugal, rated Excellent in its last international assessment. 

IT-Lisbon is located in the campus of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, the School of Science and Engineering of the Technical University of Lisbon), in Lisbon, Portugal (see Contact to find out how to reach us).

Invited keynote speakers

Grégoire Ribordy, ID Quantique SA, Geneva, Switzerland
Luiz Davidovich, Instituto da Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Vadim Makarov, Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo, Waterloo Ontario, Canada
Vicente Martín, Universidad Politecnica Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Programme

:: 15th May – Wednesday

14h00 – Registration, room 11.26, IT

14h25 – Welcome session, Yasser Omar

14h30 – Quantum metrology, optical interferometry, and the quantum speed limit, Luiz Davidovich

15h30 – Coffee break

16h00 – Environment-assisted quantum transport in disordered graphs, Leonardo Novo

16h30 – Quantum walk simulator and asymptotic behaviors, João Rodrigues


:: 16th May – Thursday

10h00 – Quantum hacking: attacks and countermeasures, Vadim Makarov

11h00 – Coffee break

11h30 – Fair and optimistic quantum contract signing, Nikola Paunkovic

12h00 - A two-state practical quantum bit commitment protocol to solve trust issues, Álvaro Almeida

12h30 – Lunch

14h30 – QKD in dense WDM passive optical networks, Vicente Martín

15h30 – Coffee break

16h00 – Polarization control systems for enhanced polarization-encoded quantum communications, Nelson Muga

16h30 – Generation of single- and entangled-photons in optical fibers through four-wave mixing, Nuno Silva

20h00 – Workshop dinner


:: 17th May - Friday

10h00 – Practical quantum key distribution: implementations and applications, Grégoire Ribordy

11h00 – Coffee break

11h30 – Improving classical authentication over a quantum channel, Paulo Mateus

12h00 – A quantum digital signature scheme based on QSCD_ff, Pedro Adão

12h30 – Closing session


Organizers

Ana Nunes (Physics of Information Group, IT)

Armando Nolasco Pinto (Optical Communications group, Aveiro - IT)

Leonardo Novo (Physics of Information Group, IT)

Paulo Mateus (Security and Quantum Information Group, IT)

Pedro Adão (Security and Quantum Information Group, IT)

Yasser Omar (Physics of Information Group, IT) -- Chair

Accommodation

The following hotels are close to the venue:

Hotel Olissipo
Hotel A.S. Lisboa
Hotel Príncipe Lisboa
Residência Capital

Venue

The workshop will take place in room 11.26 - 11th floor, at Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT),  in Lisbon, Portugal. 

IT-Lisbon is located in the campus of Instituto Superior Técnico (IST, the School of Science and Engineering of the Technical University of Lisbon), in Lisbon, Portugal (see Contact to find out how to reach us).

We gratefully acknowledge the support from:

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, namely through programme POCTI/POCI/PTDC and projects PTDC/EEA-TEL/103402/2008 QuantPrivTel – Quantum Private Telecommunicationsand PEst-OE/EEI/LA0008/2013, partially funded by FEDER (EU).

Instituto de Telecomunicações
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Contact information

E-mail: workshop.phys-info (at) lx.it.pt

Address:
Physics of Information Group
Instituto de Telecomunicações
IST, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa
Av. Rovisco Pais, Torre Norte, piso 10
P-1049-001 Lisbon
PORTUGAL

Tel: +351-21-841 84 56 
Fax: +351-21-841 84 72

Links:
Physics of Information Group
Instituto de Telecomunicações (IT)

How to reach us

​The Physics of Information Group is located in the 10th floor of Torre Norte [North Tower], in the campus of Instituto Superior Técnico, in Lisbon, Portugal.

Closest subway stations: Saldanha (exit "Arco do Cego") and Alameda, both on the Red Line, directly connected to the airport.

By taxi: indicate the entrance of Instituto Superior Técnico in Av. António José de Almeida as the destination.