Fwd: CSE Seminar on 7th March by Prof. Anirban Pathak, JIIT Noida

[Debajyoti Bera]

This talk may be of interest. It will be based on one of the author's recent articles which is available for free download at Quantum Cryptography: Key Distribution and Beyond | Shenoy-Hejamadi | Quanta A quick look into that can give you an idea about the area of the talk.

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Subject: CSE Seminar on 7th March by Prof. Anirban Pathak, JIIT Noida
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Dear all,

You are invited to a CSE Seminar on 7th March, 2018 (Wednesday) on the topic of Quantum Computing. Prof. Anirban Pathak (JIIT Noida) will be speaking on "Quantum Cryptography: A journey into the world of unconditionally secure communication".

All members of IIIT-Delhi are invited to attend the seminar. The venue is A007, New academic block and the talk starts at 4:00pm.

Abstract:

Basic ideas of secure communication (both classical and quantum) will be briefly reviewed with a focus on the recent achievements. Stress will be given on the physical origin of unconditional security which is a desirable feature of secure communication, but cannot be achieved in the classical world. The talk will start with the discussion on quantum key distribution and we will gradually introduce the quantum protocols for the other cryptographic tasks like, key agreement, quantum secure direct communication, e-commerce, e-auction,  and voting. Relationship between the quantum computation and quantum communication will be explored in light of a set of secure multi-party computation (SMC) tasks and the potential hacking strategies. In this context some introduction to the recent developments in quantum computation and post-quantum cryptographic schemes will also be provided.

About the speaker:

Prof. Anirban Pathak is a theoretical physicist. He did his Ph.D. from Visva Bharati, Santiniketan, India. Subsequently, he was a post-doctoral fellow in the Freie University, Berlin. He joined JIIT, Noida in 2002. At present he is actively involved in teaching and research related to several aspects of quantum optics and quantum information. He is a member of National Academy of Science, India (NASI) and several other professional bodies. He is a visiting scientist at Palacky University, Czech Republic. Earlier, he was an associate of Indian Institute of Mathematical Science (IMSc), Chennai, India. He guided 4 PhD students and at present he leads a research group focused on quantum optics and quantum information. The group has 2 post-docs, 4 PhD students and couple of project students. He has also completed two DST funded projects and has also refereed for several journals of international repute, e.g., Opt. Commn., Phys. Lett. A, J. Phys. A., J. Phys. B., Laser Phys., J. Mod. Quant. Infor. Proces., Opt., Int. J. Quant. Infor. , Quant. Infor. Commn., Int. J. Theor. Phys., Scientific Reports, etc. He has active research collaboration with different research groups in India, Czech Republic, Poland, Canada, Germany, Japan, Malaysia, and Argentina.

Hope to see you there.

- Debajyoti Bera

Faculty co-ordinator, Seminar society, IIIT-Delhi