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On the day before the award ceremony, June 7, 2024, starting at 4 p.m., the technology award winners will present their inventions at a colloquium.
Location: Theresianum (Room 0606), Arcisstr. 21, TUM Main Campus, Site plan
Cryptography in a Quantum World
Prof. Gilles Brassard, Université de Montréal: Is the fact that we live in a quantum world a curse or a blessing for cryptography?
Gilles Brassard will discuss how quantum theory opens up new vistas both for codebreakers and codemakers, with an emphasis on the latter.
Charles Bennett, Research Staff and IBM Fellow, IBM Research Division: Recent theoretical and practical developments of quantum cryptography.
Charles H. Bennett will discuss recent developments such as device-independent and measurement-device independent quantum cryptography, and how quantum theory illuminates the notion of privacy.