Dear Colleagues,
The First International Workshop on Trustworthy Quantum Information will be held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA, from June 28 (Sunday) to July 2 (Thursday) 2015, when the annual Ann Arbor Summer Festival (a2sf.org) is approaching the finale. The workshop’s website is TyQI.org/2015/.
Quantum mechanics promises extraordinary capabilities for computation and cryptography. However, as classical beings, we cannot directly verify quantum states or quantum operations. How can we trust the integrity of quantum hardware? To address this challenging question, an area of Trustworthy Quantum Information has emerged from several recent lines of research. The objective of this Workshop is to facilitate the formation of a coherent research subject and its research community from the constituting topics, which have been pursued separately by different groups of researchers. The Workshop in addition aims to bridge the gaps between theory and practice by engaging theorists and experimentalists in the same discussions. We also welcome participants from the classical information security community, as our approach may provide a new solution space for some of the greatest challenges in hardware security. The topics of the Workshop include, but are not limited to:
* Delegated Quantum Computation
* Device-independent and Semi-device-independent Quantum Cryptography
* Nonlocality, Contextuality, and Self-testing
* Quantum-secure Classical Randomness Extractors
Half of this 4.5-day workshop will be short talks and the other half breakout sections for free interactions. Parallel to the breakout sessions will be tutorials explaining in depth some important yet difficult techniques. An excursion to explore Ann Arbor's summer beauty will take place in the third afternoon, followed by the workshop dinner. Most talks are invited. The current list of invited speakers is attached at the end of this message and will be kept up to date at the workshop website.
Posters reporting original research relevant to the theme of workshop are sought. Depending on the availability of the speaking slots, a small number of posters submissions may be invited for oral presentation. The submission should be emailed to submissions.2015@tyqi.org with the Subject: TyQI 2015 submission before the deadline. In the body, provide either a link to the full paper, or attach a one-page abstract, which should state clearly the main result. Acceptance is based on the relevance to the workshop, the originality, and the space availability. An author of an accepted poster is expected to attend the workshop.
Participation is open to all interested researchers. This will be a self-sponsored event: all participants are expected to pay for his or her own expenses. There will be no registration fees. Participants are urged to make travel arrangements as earlier as possible as the popular Ann Arbor Summer Festival will drive up the prices for travel and lodging long before it starts in June 12, 2015.
Dates:
* Poster Submission: April 1, 2015, 5pm EST
* Notification: by email on or before April 15, 2015
* Registration: open March 1, 2015, close May 1, 2015 (registration after the deadline is possible but not guaranteed)
* Workshop: Sunday June 28, 2015 to Thursday July 2, 2015
Organizers:
Roger Colbeck (York), Xiongfeng Ma (Tsinghua), Stefano Pirandola (York), Yaoyun Shi (Michigan); contact us through team.2015.scientific@tyqi.org
Local Arrangements (Michigan): Carl Miller, Mike Newman, Morteza Noshad, and Yaoyun Shi; contact us through team.2015.local@tyqi.org
Current list of confirmed speakers
Rotem Arnon-Friedman (ETH Zürich)
Ulrik Lund Andersen (Technical University of Denmark)
Cedric Bamps (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Mario Berta (Caltech) or Omar Fawzi (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon)
or Volkher B. Scholz (ETH Zürich)
Fernando G.L.S. Brandao (University College London and Microsoft)
Kai-Min Chung (Academia Sinica)
Joseph Fitzsimons (Singapore University of Technology and Design)
Stacey Jeffery (University of Waterloo)
Adrian Kent (University of Cambridge)
Charles Ci Wen Lim (University of Geneva)
Hoi-Kwong Lo (University of Toronto)
Norbert Lütkenhaus (University of Waterloo)
Gilles Pütz (University of Geneva)
Bing Qi (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Mohsen Razavi (University of Leeds)
Ben Reichardt (University of Southern California)
Valerio Scarani (National University of Singapore)
Marco Tomamichel (University of Sydney)
Philip Walther (University of Vienna)
Stephanie Wehner (Delft University of Technology)
Xiaodi Wu (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Qiang Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China)
Qiang Zhou (University of Calgary)
