The application for the 2022 QKD Summer School is now closed.
What's QKD Summer School?
The international Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) Summer School is a five-day program focused on theoretical and experimental aspects of quantum communication with a focus on quantum cryptography. QKD Summer School aims to provide a solid foundation in relevant approaches and techniques to enable graduate students and young postdoctoral fellows to perform their own independent research. This year, QKD Summer School is running August 15-19, 2022.
It is hosted by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) at the Mike & Ophelia Lazaridis Quantum-Nano Centre on the University of Waterloo main campus at 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
A three-day optional follow-up workshop will take place August 22-24, where participants will gain hands-on project-based experience with open-source numerical QKD software tools. The workshop will be led in small groups by members of the Optical Quantum Communication Theory group at IQC who are actively developing the QKD software tool.
Speakers
Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh, Institute for Quantum Computing
Information Theoretic Security
Thomas Jennewein, Institute for Quantum Computing
Optical Components for QKD
Optical QKD Implementations
David Jao, University of Waterloo
Post Quantum Cryptography
Norbert Lütkenhaus, Institute for Quantum Computing
Security Analysis of QKD Protocols
Security Analysis of Optical QKD
QKD Protocol Zoo
Atefeh Mashatan, Toronto Metropolitan University
Cryptography
Michele Mosca, Institute for Quantum Computing
Quantum Threat
Shihan Sajeed, Institute for Quantum Computing
Quantum Hacking
Renato Renner, ETH Zürich
Foundations of QKD Security
Ramona Wolf, ETH Zürich
Composability
QKD Summer School Schedule 2022
Quantum-Nano Centre (QNC) Room 0101
| Monday, August 15 | Tuesday, August 16 | Wednesday, August 17 | Thursday, August 18 |
Friday, August 19 | |
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| 8:30 am | Coffee + Registration | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
| 9:00 am | Introduction to Cryptography, Atefeh Mashatan | Foundations of QKD Security I, Renato Renner | Foundations of QKD Security II, Renato Renner | Security Analysis of Optical QKD, Norbert Lütkenhaus | QKD Protocol Zoo, Norbert Lütkenhaus |
| 9:30 am | |||||
| 10:00 am | |||||
| 10:30 am | Post-Quantum Cryptography, David Jao | ||||
| 11:00 am | |||||
| 11:30 am | |||||
| 12:00 pm | Lunch at St. Jerome's |
Lunch at St. Jerome's |
Lunch at St. Jerome's |
Lunch at St. Jerome's |
Lunch at St. Jerome's |
| 12:30 pm | |||||
| 1:00 pm | |||||
| 1:30 pm |
Information Theoretic Security, Sara Zafar Jafarzadeh |
Security Analysis of QKD Protocols, Norbert Lütkenhaus | Quantum Threat, Michele Mosca | Optical QKD Implementations, Thomas Jennewein | Composability, Ramona Wolf |
| 2:00 pm | |||||
| 2:30 pm | Optical Components for QKD Thomas Jennewein |
Open Questions, Norbert Lütkenhaus |
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| 3:00 pm | |||||
| 3:30 pm | |||||
| 4:00 pm | |||||
| 4:30 pm | Quantum Hacking, Shihan Sajeed | ||||
| 5:00 pm | QNC Lab Tour | ||||
| 5:30 pm | |||||
| 6:00 pm | Banquet at King Street Trio |