The Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) now offers two different Quantum Innovators workshops to bring together the most promising young postdoctoral fellows.
Explore quantum information science hands-on at a world-class institute.
Quantum Innovators is a five-day workshop offered by the Institute for Quantum Computing (IQC) since 2012 bringing the most promising postdoctoral fellows in quantum information science and technology together.
Since its conception a decade ago, interest in Quantum Illumination, a form of long-range quantum sensing, has grown steadily. Motivated by applications in defence, quantum communications and other areas, interest has now spread from academia to industry and government. The goal of the IQC Workshop on Quantum Illumination is to bring together a wide range of participants from these various domains to discuss the state of the art in laboratory research, the range of possible applications, and paths toward those applications.
Discover how mathematics, physics, computer science, engineering, and more combine into one of the most exciting topics in modern science – quantum information – at the Quantum School for Young Students (QSYS).
QNC building, 200 University Ave. Room 0101, Waterloo
Quantum for Educators (formerly known as Schrödinger's Class) equips you with the ability to bring quantum science into your classrooms and confidently teach your students about quantum physics, quantum computing, quantum cryptography, and more.
QNC building, 200 University Ave. Room 1201, Waterloo
The security of cryptographic primitives and protocols is inextricably tied to that of the implementations deployed in the real world. Ensuring that these implementations are as secure as possible is thus a problem at the heart of cryptographic security.
This workshop will introduce common classes of cryptographic vulnerabilities, including improper randomness generation, side-channel attacks, flaws in primitives or protocols, and others, and discuss secure coding practices that can help mitigate them, based on our experiences auditing cryptographic code. This discussion will be complemented by a set of practical exercises to provide experience in spotting insecure constructions. Additionally, as implementation quality is often tied to the quality of the source material, we will present a case study on a recent widely implemented threshold signing protocol where ambiguous or unclear presentation in the academic source material has led to multiple critical implementation vulnerabilities.
This workshop is presented by NCC Group Cryptography Services practice in Waterloo, Ontario.
To attend this program please email us at cryptoworks21@uwaterloo.ca by July 17, 2024.
Douglas Stebila, University of Waterloo
QNC building, 200 University Ave. Room 1201, Waterloo
This workshop will provide an introduction to the Tamarin prover, which is a security protocol verification tool that analyzes cryptographic protocols in a symbolic model and can automatically identify attacks or conclude that certain classes of attacks do not exist. The workshop will include a hands-on exercise using the Tamarin prover.
To attend this program please email us at cryptoworks21@uwaterloo.ca by July 16, 2024.
Quantum Repeater Day is intended to be a one-day internal event featuring focused discussions in various forms. We believe that constructive deliberation and shared insights within the diverse research community here is imperative for realizing the common goal of constructing functional quantum repeaters.