Scientific Visitors

• The following researchers have visited Instituto de Telecomunicações in the context of project QuantPrivTel and have delivered a keynote lecture at the Workshop on Quantum Private Telecommunications:
  

- Andreas Poppe (Austrian Institute of Technology), The SECOQC quantum key distribution network in Vienna, 22/04/2010.

- Vicente Martin (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Quantum key distribution in optical switched networks, 22/04/2010.

• The following researchers have visited Instituto de Telecomunicações in the context of project QuantPrivTel and have delivered a keynote lecture at the Workshop on Quantum Telecommunications:
  

- Grégoire Ribordy (ID Quantique SA), Practical quantum key distribution: implementations and applications, 17/05/2013.

- Vadim Makarov (University of Waterloo), Quantum hacking: attacks and countermeasures, 16/05/2013.

- Vicente Martín (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), QKD in dense WDM passive optical networks, 16/05/2013.

- Luiz Davidovich (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro), Quantum metrology, optical interferometry, and the quantum speed limit, 15/05/2013.

• The following researchers have visited Instituto de Telecomunicações in the context of project QuantPrivTel and have given a talk at the Quantum Computation and Information (QCI) Seminar:
  

- Jeroen van de Graaf (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), Fast key distribution with security from quantum-optical noise, 05/07/2013.

- Klaas Bergmann (Technical University Kaiserslautern), Population transfer between quantum states to perfection: Stimulated Raman Adiabatic Passage (STIRAP), 23/05/2013.

- Guillermo Cordourier-Maruri (University College London), Implementation of quantum logic gates by electron scattering in graphene nanoribbons, 07/05/2013.

- Alipasha Vaziri (University of Vienna), Opportunities at the interface between quantum (nano) physics and biology, 18/04/2013.

- Tomoyuki Yamakami (University of Fukui), Quantum Hardcores and Quantum Public-Key Cryptosystems, 15/03/2013.

- Fabio Sciarrino (University of Rome "La Sapienza"), Quantum simulation with integrated photonics, 14/03/2013.

- Armando Nolasco Pinto (U Aveiro and IT), Improving Fiber Optics Communication Systems Using Single-Photons, 14/02/2013.

- Mafalda Almeida (Physics of Information Group, IT), "Guess your neighbour's input" - a game to distinguish classical/quantum correlations from supra-quantum ones in a world with more than two observers, 10/01/2013.

- Enrique Solano (Universidad del País Vasco), Quantum simulations as our quantum theater, 14/12/2012.

- Aleksandar Stojanovic (SQIG-IT), Quantum authentication for quantum key distribution, 07/12/2012.

- Louis Kauffman (University of Illinois at Chicago), Topological Quantum Information, Khovanov Homology and the Jones Polynomial, 30/11/2012.

- Vladimír Bužek (Slovak Academy of Sciences), On the origin of (statistical) temperature in quantum Universe, 23/10/2012.

- Octavi Boada (U Barcelona), Quantum simulation with optical lattices, 04/10/2012.

- Arnaldo Gouveia (SQIG-IT), An overview of the E91 protocol - Part II, 29/06/2012.

- Arnaldo Gouveia (SQIG-IT), An overview of the E91 protocol – Part I, 01/06/2012.

- Daniel Reitzner (Slovak Acad. Sci. and TU Munich), Compatibility of quantum measurements: coexistence of qubit observables, 23/03/2012.

- Masoud Mohseni (MIT and Raytheon BBN Technologies), Harnessing the interplay between quantum coherence and decoherence, 21/03/2012.

- Francesco Ciccarello (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa), Deterministic realization of a universal quantum gate in a single scattering process, 16/03/2012.

- Francisco Monteiro (IT and ISCTE-IUL), The closest vector problem in multi-dimensional wireless channels, 02/03/2012.

- Marko Vojinovic (U Lisboa), Some conceptual issues of quantum gravity, 27/01/2012.

- Marcos Curty (U Vigo), Taming detector side channels in quantum cryptography, 25/11/2011.

- Alexandra Olaya-Castro (University College London), Using quantum information tools to quantify electronic coherence in light-harvesting systems, 11/11/2011.

- Tamas Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Recurrence in quantum walks, 03/11/2011.

- Daowen Qiu (SQIG-IT), Semi-quantum secret sharing without entanglement, 27/10/2011.

- Armando Nolasco Pinto (U Aveiro and IT), Communications with Single and Entangled Photon Pairs, 20/10/2011.

- João Nuno Prata (U Lusófona), Noncommutative Quantum Mechanics, 07/10/2011.

João Nuno Prata (U Lusófona), Weyl-Wigner formulation of quantum mechanics, 23/09/2011.

- Daowen Qiu (SQIG-IT), Semi-quantum key distribution with less states and Semi-quantum secret sharing without entanglement, 01/07/2011.

- Tomas Kopf (U Opave, Czech Republic), Generative model inversion and information geometry, 03/06/2011.

- Mariana Barros (U Federal de Minas Gerais), Optical demonstration of the Deutsch-Jozsa algorithm with a single qubit, 11/01/2011.

- Luís Tarrataca (Instituto Superior Técnico), Tree Search and Quantum Computation, 26/11/2010.

- Orfeu Bertolami (U Porto), Noncommutative quantum mechanics, quantum cosmology and black holes, 19/11/2010.

- Markus Tiersch (U Innsbruck), Benchmarks and statistics of entanglement dynamics, 02/11/2010.

- Armando Nolasco Pinto (U Aveiro and IT), Quantum Communications: An Experimental Approach, 07/10/2010.

- José Cláudio do Nascimento (U Fortaleza), Statistical model for a quantum noiseless subsystem, 30/07/2010.

- Jan Bouda (Masaryk University, Brno), Randomness Extractors, 21/07/2010.

- Tomoyuki Morimae (U Lille), Macroscopic superposition in quantum information processing, 05/03/2010.

- Nikola Paunkovic (SQIG-IT), Quantum Contract Signing, 19/02/2010.

- Francisco Marcos de Assis (U Federal de Campina Grande), Zero-Error Capacity of a Quantum Channel, 05/02/2010.