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CONFERENCE INFORMATION


The 2005 Quantum Communications Research Conference (QCRC) will be held at the Millenium Hotel from June 1-3, 2005. The conference will consist of a one and a half day review of ARDA-sponsored research in quantum communications, followed by one day of invited talks from international leaders in quantum communications research.

AGENDA


Advanced Research and Development Activity
2005 Quantum Cryptography Research Conference

Millennium Hotel, Boulder, CO; June 1 - 3 2005

Day 1 - Wednesday, June 1: ARDA PROGRAM REVIEWS
0700
Breakfast Millennium Hotel, Coaches Corner Bar (Main Level)
0730
Check-In Outside of Ballroom
Introductions and Program Reviews
0800
Timothy Persons ARDA
Introduction and Welcome to Day 1
0805
Karl Roenigk ARDA
The Fabric of ARDA QCP Research
0815
Carl Williams NIST-G
Host Welcome
Free Space and Fiber Communications
0830
Richard Hughes LANL Algorithms for Quantum Key Distribution
0915
Robert Runser, Thomas Chapuran, Matt Goodman LTS Quantum Cryptography in Optical Networks
Quantum Information Theory
1000
Charles Bennett IBM Quantum Information Theory & Quantum Cryptography
1030
Break and Posters   Millennium Room
Toward Quantum Repeaters
1045
Jeff Kimble Cal Tech Quantum Information Processing wth Atmoic Ensembles
Entangled Photon Sources

1130

Carl Williams NIST-G ARDA Challenge Workshop on Engineering a Fast, Pulsed Source of Entangled Photons
1145
Franco Wong MIT Robust Pulsed Entangled Photon Source Development and Integration
1230
Lunch   Outside Pavilion (Back-up in Coaches Corner Bar)
Entangled Photon Sources continued...
1400
Prem Kumar NWFU Fiber Pump laser Development for SPDC
1430
David Zelmon& Rita Peterson WP AFB Enhanced Materials for Quantum Encryption and Computing
1500
Warren Grice ORNL Spectral Properties of Entangled Photons
1530
Break and Posters   Millennium Room
1545
Alan Migdail NIST-G Photon Metrology - Detecters, Sourcs, & Switches
1615
Ray Beausoleil HP Effects of Disorder on the Performance of Photonic Crystal Structures and Pulsed Entangled Photon Sources for QKD
1700
Adjourn Program Reviews
1705
Government Reviewer Caucus
1700

ARDA QKD Roadmap Working Meeting

All Quantum Information Science Roadmap Part III: QKD
(Invitation Only - experts drafting and working meeting)
Reception
1800
Reception   Millennium Room
Day 2 - Thursday, June 2 (AM): ARDA PROGRAM REVIEWS continued…
0700
Breakfast Millennium Hotel, Coaches Corner Bar (Main Level)
Introductions
0800
Timothy Persons& Karl Roenigk ARDA Introduction and Welcome to Day 2
0805
Carl Williams NIST-G Host Welcome
Single Photon Sources and Detectors
0815
Jelena Vuckovic Stanford Quantum Dot-Photonic Crystal Devices and Circuits for Quantum Information Processing
0900
Sae-Woo Nam& Beth Nordholt NIST-B, LANL Superconducting Single Photon Detectors
0930
Richard Mirin NIST-B Quantum Dot Gated Field Effect Transistors as Single
Photon Detectors
1000
Break and Posters
  Millenium Room
Entanglement Exploitation
1015
John Howell & Tom Bahder U. Rochester, ARL
High Bandwidth Quantum Information
1115
Paul Kwiat U, IL, U.C. Relativistic Cryptography and Quantum Orienteering
1230
Lunch   Outside Pavilion (Back-up in Coaches Corner Bar)
Day 2 - Thursday, June 2 (PM): CONFERENCE AGENDA
Introductions and Conference Keynote Addresses

1350

Carl Williams NIST-G Host Welcome
1400
Alain Aspect, Keynote Institute of Optics Orsay, France
From Einstein's Objections to Quantum Bits: 70 years of
Entanglement and a New Quantum Revolution?
1500
Gerard Milburn U. Queensland Ion Traps Coupled to Nanoelectromechanical Systems
1600
Break and Posters   Millennium Room
1615
Rainer Blatt U. Innsbrück Entanglement and Transfer of Quantum Information with trapped Ca+ Ions
1715
Adjourn
1720
Government Reviewer Caucus
Day 3 - Friday, June 3 (AM): CONFERENCE AGENDA
0700
Breakfast Millennium Hotel, Coaches Corner Bar (Main Level)
Introductions
0800
Carl Williams NIST-G Host Welcome
0815
Artur Ekert Cambridge U. Entangled with Security
0915
Wolfgang Tittle U. Geneva Entangled Time-bin Qubits: From Fundamental Questions
to Applications
1015
Break and Posters   Millennium Room
1030
Richard Hughes LANL A Quantitative Comparison of Entanglement-Based and Weak-Laser Pulse Based Approaches to QKD
1100
Panel Discussion All Richard Hughes - Coordinator, Panel Members TBD
1130
Mikhail Lukin Harvard New Tools for Quantum Information Science: From Atomic
Ensembles to Quantum Dots
1225
Carl Williams NIST Host Farewells
1230
Lunch and Adjourn Outside Pavilion (Back-up in Coaches Bar)
POSTERS
Bennink ORNL Interactive Modeling of Sontaneous Parametric Downconversion
Fiorentino HP Pulsed Entangled Photon Source for QKD
Waks Stanford Integrated Quantum Optics with Photonic Crystals
Barsic Stanford Nano-scale Optical Devices: Surface Plasmons, and Silicon Nano-wires
Jeffrey UIUC Relativistic Quantum Cryptography
Hadfield NIST-B A Superconducting Single Photon Detecter System for Quantum Communications Applications
Lita NIST-B Fabricaton of High-efficiency Photon-Number Resolving Transition-edge Sensors