Conference Program
Day 1 Monday 18 October
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30-9:35 | Hideo Miyahara (President, NICT) | Welcome address |
| 9:35-9:40 | Hideki Imai (Director, AIST) | Opening remarks |
| Tokyo QKD network live demonstration: | ||
| 9:40-11:10 | NICT, NEC, Mitsubishi Electric, NTT, TREL, ID Quantique,Mitsubishi Electric, NTT, TREL, ID Quantique, All Vienna | Demonstration of secure communication with QKD |
| 11:10-11:50 | Messages from team leaders, and Q&A | |
| 11:50-13:20 | Lunch break (90min.) | |
| Session 1 Security for new generation network (chair: J. H. Shapiro) | ||
| 13:20-13:50 | Tomonori Aoyama (Keio University/NICT) |
Special talk ICT Paradigm Shift in 2010s and its impacts on the Information Society, 30min. |
| 13:50-14:30 | Adi Shamir (The Weizmann Institute of Science) |
Keynote talk 1 Quantum cryptography: prospects and problems, 40min. |
| 14:30-15:10 | Nicolas Gisin (University of Geneva) |
Keynote talk 2 Today's and tomorrow's challenges for quantum communication, 40min. |
| 15:10-16:20 | Coffee break & Exhibition (70min.) | |
| Session 2QKD network technologies (chair: R. J. Hughes) | ||
| Technical achievements in Tokyo QKD Network | ||
| 16:20-16:40 | Akihisa Tomita (NEC/Hokkaido Univ.) | High-speed quantum key distribution system for metropolitan networks, 20min. |
| 16:40-17:00 | Mitsuru Matsui (Mitsubishi Electric) | Challenges in cryptography: ongoing and forthcoming, 20min. |
| 17:00-17:20 | Yasuhiro Tokura (NTT) | Quantum key distribution/communication research in NTT, 20min. |
| 17:20-17:40 | Coffee break (20min.) | |
| 17:40-18:00 | Gregoire Ribordy (ID Quantique) | Commercial applications of QKD, 20min. |
| 18:00-18:20 | Andrew Shields (Toshiba Research Europe Ltd.) | Compact prototype for GHz quantum key distribution, 20min. |
| 18:20-18:40 | Momtchil Peev (All Vienna) | The All Vienna prototype in the Tokyo QKD network. SECOQC-Vienna, Tokyo and future QKD networks., 20min. |
| 18:40-18:45 | Yusaku Nakata (Executive director, IPA) | The first day closing address |
Day 2Tuesday 19 October
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 3Fundamentals and applications of quantum information technologies (chair: N. Gisin) | ||
| 9:30-10:10 | Anton Zeilinger (University of Vienna) | Keynote talk 3 Long-distance free-space quantum entanglement and fundamental experiments, 40min. |
| 10:10-10:40 | Artur Ekert (University of Oxford) | The Past, Present and Future of Quantum Cryptography, 30min. |
| 10:40-11:00 | Coffee break (20min.) | |
| Session 4Security analysis of QKD systems (chair: A. Ekert) | ||
| 11:00-11:30 | Norbert Lütkenhaus (University of Waterloo) | Security analysis of practical QKD systems, 30min. |
| 11:30-11:55 | Masato Koashi (Osaka University) | Complementarity approach to security of quantum key distribution with practical devices, 25min. |
| 11:55-12:15 | Bing Qi (University of Toronto) | Security of practical quantum key distribution system, 20min. |
| 12:15-13:45 | Lunch break (90min.) | |
| Session 5Practical quantum communication technologies (chair: A. Zeilinger) | ||
| 13:45-14:15 | Philippe Grangier (CNRS) | Quantum key distribution with continuous variables, 30min. |
| 14:15-14:45 | Prem Kumar (Northwestern University) | Engineering quantum communications for the telecom band, 30min. |
| 14:45-15:05 | Mikio Fujiwara (NICT) | Hybrid entanglement photon pair source for space-fiber flexible quantum network, 20min. |
| 15:05-15:25 | Morio Toyoshima (NICT) | Current status of space laser communications in Japan, 20min. |
| 15:25-15:45 | Coffee break (20min.) | |
| Session 6Single-photon detection technologies (chair: Z. Yuan) | ||
| 15:45-16:15 | Gregory Gol'tsman (Moscow State Pedagogical University) | Superconducting single-photon detector for quantum information and quantum communication, 30min. |
| 16:15-16:45 | Mark Itzler (Princeton Lightwave) | Advances in 1.5 mm single photon detection using InP/InGaAs avalanche diodes, 30min. |
| 16:45-18:15 | Poster & Exhibition (75 posters, 11 exhibitions) | |
| 19:00-21:00 | Banquet | |
Day 3Wednesday 20 October
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Session 7 Quantum metrology and quantum simulations (chair: Y. Yamamoto) | ||
| 9:00-9:30 | Dzmitry Matsukevich (University of Maryland/National University of Singapore) | Quantum networks with photons and trapped ions, 30min. |
| 9:30-9:55 | Hidetoshi Katori (The University of Tokyo) | Optical lattice clocks and frequency comparison, 25min. |
| 9:55-10:10 | Tetsuya Ido (NICT) | Remote transfer of stable optical frequency toward direct comparison of two optical clocks, 15min. |
| 10:10-10:35 | Yoshiro Takahashi (Kyoto University) | Quantum simulator using ultracold two-electron atoms in an optical lattice, 25min. |
| 10:35-10:55 | Coffee break (20min.) | |
| Session 8Quantum memory and quantum repeater (chair: P. Tombesi) | ||
| 10:55-11:25 | Yoshihisa Yamamoto (NII/Stanford University) | Challenge for scalable quantum repeater - a layered architecture for quantum repeaters with optically controlled quantum dots -, 30min. |
| 11:25-11:55 | Wolfgang Tittel (University of Calgary) | Integrated quantum memory for sub-nanosecond non-classical light, 30min. |
| 11:55-12:20 | Hideo Kosaka (Tohoku University) | Quantum media conversion between photons and electrons in solids for quantum repeaters, 25min. |
| 12:20-12:45 | William Munro (NTT) | Scalable quantum repeaters and quantum networks, 25min. |
| 12:45-14:15 | Lunch break (90min.) | |
| Session 9Quantum communications and quantum information processing (chair: P. Kumar) | ||
| 14:15-14:45 | Christian Kurtsiefer (National University of Singapore) | Interaction of photons with single atoms - a complementary approach to cavity QED, 30min. |
| 14:45-15:15 | Jeremy O'Brien (University of Bristol) | Integrated quantum photonics, 30min. |
| 15:15-15:40 | Takuya Hirano (Gakushuin University) | Continuous variable QKD in fiber network, 25min. |
| 15:40-16:00 | Coffee break (20min.) | |
| Session 10Quantum cryptography: Summary and outlook (chair: M. Peev) | ||
| 16:00-16:30 | Richard J. Hughes (LANL) | Satellite-Based Quantum Communications, 30min. |
| 16:30-16:50 | Eleni Diamanti (CNRS/Telecom ParisTech) | Quantum cryptography and network security, 20min. |
| 16:50-17:00 | Short break (10min.) | |
| 17:00-17:20 | Thomas Länger (AIT) | Quantum key distribution for security applications in business environments, 20min. |
| 17:20-17:40 | Gaby Lenhart (ETSI) | QKD standardization at ETSI, 20min. |
| 17:40-18:00 | Kentaro Imafuku (AIST) | QKD experiences and new turns, 20min. |
| 18:00-18:05 | Masahide Sasaki (NICT) | Closing address |
