The two day summer school is going to take place in London from 28 to 29 May 2024. Lectures by renowned experts in quantum communications and computing are planned as well as a poster session where the particpant’s work can be discussed. The event is intended for an audience of young researchers and Ph.D. students. However, interested postdocs and industry experts who want to get familiar with the topics are also very much welcome. For more information, please see the programme below.
Registration
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Lecturer
Riccardo Bassoli
Riccardo Bassoli is a Juniorprofessur at the Deutsche Telekom Chair of Communication Networks and Head of the Quantum Communication Networks (QCNets) research group, at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at Technische Universität Dresden. He is member of the Centre for Tactile Internet with Human-in-the-loop (CeTI), Cluster of Excellence, Dresden. He is also member of the EU Quantum Internet Alliance (QIA) and of the EU flagship for 6G Hexa-X II. He is principal investigator in the 6G-life research hub of Germany. He got his Ph.D. from 5G Innovation Centre at University of Surrey (UK), in 2016. He was also a Marie Curie ESR at the Instituto de Telecomunicações (Portugal) and visiting researcher at Airbus Defence and Space (France). Between 2016 and 2019, he was postdoctoral researcher at Università di Trento (Italy).
Osvaldo Simeone
Osvaldo Simeone received the M.Sc. (with honors) and Ph.D. degrees in information engineering from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He is a Professor in information engineering. He codirects the Centre for Intelligent Information Processing Systems, Department of Engineering of King’s College London, where he also leads King’s Communications, Learning and Information Processing Laboratory. He is also a Visiting Professor with the Connectivity Section, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg University. From 2006 to 2017, he was a Faculty Member with the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), where he was affiliated with the Center for Wireless Information Processing (CWiP).
Holger Boche
Holger Boche received the Dipl.-Ing. degree in electrical engineering, Graduate degree in mathematics, and the Dr.-Ing. Degree in electrical engineering from the Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany, in 1990, 1992, and 1994, respectively, and the Dr. rer. nat. degree in pure mathematics from the Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, in 1998. From 1994 to 1997 he did postgraduate studies at the Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena. In 1997, he joined the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) für Nachrichtentechnik Berlin, Berlin. From 2002 to 2010, he was a Full Professor in mobile communication networks with the Institute for Communications Systems, Technische Universität Berlin. In 2003, he became the Director of the Fraunhofer German-Sino Laboratory for Mobile Communications, Berlin, and in 2004, he became the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications (HHI), Berlin, Germany. Since October 2010, he has been with the Institute of Theoretical Information Technology and a Full Professor with the Technische Universität München.
Daniele Ottaviani
Daniele Ottaviani has a Master Degree in “Applied Mathematics” at “Sapienza, University of Rome”, 110/110 cum Laude. He also obtained an Advanced Master Degree in “Scientific Calculus” at “Sapienza, University of Rome”, degree 110/110 cum Laude and a Ph.D. in “Mathematics and Models” at “University of L’Aquila”. Born as an HPC specialist and developer, he started working in CINECA in 2018, dealing with both HPC and QC research topics. Now is the coordinator and Technical manager of the CINECA Quantum Computing area.
Janis Nötzel
Janis Nötzel received his Ph.D. in 2012 with the dissertation “Quantum Communication under Channel Uncertainty”. Afterwards he worked in the BMBF projects “System Models and Multipath Communication Protocols for Quantum Repeaters” and “Tap-proof Communication, Attacks and System Design” and was a DFG fellow at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with Prof. Winter. He led a research transfer at TU Dresden from 2016 to 2018, before starting his position at TU Munich as head of the first DFG Emmy-Noether group in electrical engineering for the field of quantum technologies.
Programme
The programme is constantly updated. You will find here detailed information and abstracts of the lectures soon.
Tuesday, 28 May
Lecture and practical session I
9 to 12 am
Riccardo Bassoli, TU Dresden
Osvaldo Simeone, King’s College London
Lecture and practical session II
2 to 5 pm
Holger Boche, TU Munich
Poster Session
5 to 7 pm
Wednesday, 29 May 2024
Lecture and practical session III
9 to 12 am
Daniele Ottaviani, CINECA Bologna
Lecture and practical session IV
2 to 5 pm
Janis Noetzel, TU Munich
Organisers
Riccardo Bassoli, TU Dresden
Osvaldo Simeone, King’s College London