Qubit 2018: Celebrating Bennett and Brassard’s Wolf Prize for Physics

Registration

Qubit 2018 – Quantum Communication:

Celebrating Bennett & Brassard’s

Wolf Prize for Physics

3.6.2018 , 09:30 – 17:00

Technion

Chairs: Eli Biham and Tal Mor

 

The Technion  Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center invites you to an event honoring the laureates of this years Wolf prize in Physics.

Participation is free but pre – registration is required. To register please click here

Program:

09:30 – 10:00 Gathering and Light refreshments

10:00  – 10:15 Opening words
Prof. Peretz Lavie – Technion, President
Prof. Eli Biham –  Technion , Hiroshi Fujiwara Cyber Security Research Center
Prof. Tal Mor – Technion, CS

10:15 – 11:25 Keynote: Charles H. Bennett, IBM Research Center
Why DIY (do it yourself) randomness is better than DI (device independent) randomness

11:25 – 11:55 Coffee Break

11:55- 12:50  Tal Mor, Technion
Quantum computers – Is The future here?

12:50 – 13:45 Lev Vaidman, Tel-Aviv University
Counterfactual communication

13:45 – 14:45 Lunch reception

14:45 – 15:55 Keynote: Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal
Cryptography in a quantum World

15:55 – 16:55 Panel: Cryptography: do we need both quantum and classical?
Moderator: Tal Mor
Participants: Charles Bennett, Eli Biham, Gilles Brassard, Lev Vaidman

16:55 – 17:00 Closing words