NIST PQC seminar #14 (Tuesday 2024-June-04, 10am EDT)
Bros, Maxime P. (IntlAssoc)
Dear all,
I hope you're doing well.
Since Post-Quantum Cryptography emerged as a response to the Quantum Threat, it is vital for our community to understand the basics of quantum computing, and to stay informed about its latest developments. This will be the focus of the next NIST PQC Seminar.
In August 2023, the BSI (German Federal Office for Information Security) published a report on the state of quantum computing [1].
I am thrilled to announce that NIST PQC Seminar # 14 will be presented by one of the report's authors, who will introduce us to this field and share the latest developments in quantum computing for cryptanalysis.
I hope many of you will join this seminar and take the opportunity to ask Frank questions :-). Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues.
This NIST PQC Seminar will take place at 10 a.m. US EDT (Eastern Daylight Time, Washington D.C., UTC-4) on Tuesday June 4th, 2024. Please find more details below.
Recall that we use Zoom for Government (ZoomGov), so everything will be the same as with the usual Zoom: you can join in the browser or with your usual Zoom desktop application (we recommend this option for stability), and no need to have a Zoom account to join.
Here are the meeting details:
Join ZoomGov Meeting: https://nist.zoomgov.com/j/16127803271?pwd=YUVESHh6RUxITEpxN3BISXBTRWVJUT09&omn=1611078956
Meeting ID: 161 2780 3271
Passcode: 425053
Sincerely,
Dr. Maxime Bros
NIST PQC Team
[1] "Status of quantum computer development --- Entwicklungsstand Quantencomputer",
Frank K. Wilhelm, Rainer Steinwandt, Daniel Zeuch, Jurek Frey.
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### Title ###
Quantum computers - state of development for cryptanalysis
### Abstract ###
This talk is meant as an overview of the status of quantum computing as it is reflected in the study we wrote for the German Information Security Office (BSI). Next to reporting on the status, it will focus on clarifying what type of information to look for and where the main bottlenecks are. It is meant to thus demystify some of the physics and engineering-driven literature in the field for mathematics and computer-science oriented practicioners of post quantum cryptography.
### Speakers and Affiliations ###
Dr. Frank Wilhelm-Mauch, Institute for Quantum Computing Analytics, FZJ, Germany
### Mini bios ###
Frank Wilhelm-Mauch is the director of the Institute for Quantum Computing Analytics at the Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany since 2020, as well as a full professor of theoretical physics at Saarland University, Germany, since 2011. He obtained his Diplom (1996) and doctoral (1999) degrees in Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and his Habilitation in 2004 at Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) in Munich, Germany. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Delft University of Technology, Netherlands, a senior postdoc and lecturer at LMU and an Associate Professor at the Institute for Quantum Computing and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Waterloo, Canada.