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Please note that minor adjustments may occur as we approach the event date.

Program

Monday, August 24, 2026

0815 08:15–09:00
0900 09:00–09:15

Welcoming Speech

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0915 09:15–10:30

Tutorial Talk: Self-testing in quantum cryptography

Tutorial
Ivan Šupić
LIG - CNRS/Université Grenoble Alpes
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1030 10:30–11:00

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1100 11:00–11:45

Invited Talk: Quantum statistics in the minimal Bell scenario

Invited
Jean-Daniel Bancal
Institut de Physique Théorique Saclay
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1145 11:45–12:30

Invited Talk: Less is More: On Copy Complexity in Quantum Cryptography

Invited
Eli Goldin
New York University
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1230 12:30–14:00

Lunch at CRX

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Dining Hall
1400 14:00–14:20

Contributed Talk: #63 Compressed Permutation Oracles

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1420 14:20–14:40

Contributed Talk: #22 The Sponge is Quantum Indifferentiable

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1440 14:40–15:00

Contributed Talk: #74 Post-quantum security of block cipher constructions

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1500 15:00–15:20

Contributed Talk: #18 Quantum Oracle Distribution Switching and its Applications to Fully Anonymous Ring Signatures

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1520 15:20–15:50

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1550 15:50–16:10

Contributed Talk: #33 Rethinking quantum smooth entropies: Tight one-shot analysis of quantum privacy amplification

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1610 16:10–16:30

Contributed Talk: #7 A rigorous and complete security proof of decoy-state BB84 quantum key distribution

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1630 16:30–16:50

Contributed Talk: #95 Rigorous phase-error-estimation security framework for QKD with correlated sources

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1650 16:50–17:10

Contributed Talk: #128 Simplified quantum key distribution implementation secure against state preparation flaws

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1710 17:10–17:30

Contributed Talk: #43 Unconditional Authentication in Quantum Key Distribution via Hybrid Entangled Physical Unclonable Functions

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1730 17:30–17:50

Contributed Talk: #24 QKD Oracles for Authenticated Key Exchange

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1750 17:50–19:20

Tuesday, August 25, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–10:15

Tutorial Talk: Continuous-Variable Quantum Key Distribution

Tutorial
Tobias Gehring
Technical University of Denmark
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1015 10:15–10:45

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1045 10:45–11:30

Invited Talk: Quantum communication takes to the skies

Invited
Paul G. Kwiat
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1130 11:30–12:15

Invited Talk: Quantum communication with ultrafast time-Bin encoding

Invited
Duncan England
National Research Council of Canada
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1215 12:15–12:30

Group Photo

Program
Location to be communicated soon
1230 12:30–14:00

Lunch at CRX

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Dining Hall
1400 14:00–14:20

Contributed Talk: #19 Quantification of the energy consumption of entanglement distribution

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1420 14:20–14:40

Contributed Talk: #8/#100 Uncloneable encryption from decoupling / The uncloneable bit exists

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1440 14:40–15:00

Contributed Talk: #62 Multi-Copy Security in Quantum Cryptography and More

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1500 15:00–15:20

Contributed Talk: #52 Towards Universal Quantum Tamper Detection

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1520 15:20–15:50

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1550 15:50–16:10

Contributed Talk: #139 Proofs of Quantum Memory

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1610 16:10–16:30

Contributed Talk: #14 Hierarchical generation and design of tree-codes for resource-efficient loss-tolerant quantum communications

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1630 16:30–16:50

Contributed Talk: #65 Chip-based Long-distance Twin-field Quantum Key Distribution Networks

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1650 16:50–17:10

Contributed Talk: #104 Long-Distance Free-Space Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution towards Satellite-based Quantum Network

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1710 17:10–17:30

Contributed Talk: #89 Reference-beam attacks against OIL-based Twin-Field QKD

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1730 17:30–17:50

Contributed Talk: #69 Continuous-variable quantum communication over hybrid channels

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1750 17:50–18:10

Contributed Talk: #101 High-Performance Laser Written Heterodyne Receiver for Photonic Quantum Information Processing

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1810 18:10–19:40

Wednesday, August 26, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–10:15

Tutorial Talk: Quantum cryptography beyond QKD: advances and practical challenges

Tutorial
Mathieu Bozzio
University of Vienna
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1015 10:15–10:45

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1045 10:45–11:30

Invited Talk: Relativistic Position Verification with Coherent States

Invited
Guan-Jie Fan-Yuan
University of Science and Technology of China
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1130 11:30–12:15

Invited Talk: Free-Space Twin-Field Quantum Key Distribution

Invited
Yu-Huai Li
University of Science and Technology of China
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1215 12:15–13:00

Lunch Boxes

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1300 13:00–19:00

Thursday, August 27, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–10:15

Tutorial Talk: Security Proofs for Quantum Key Distribution

Tutorial
Ramona Wolf
University of Innsbruck
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1015 10:15–10:45

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1045 10:45–11:30

Invited Talk: Private Proofs of When and Where

Invited
Tal Malkin
Columbia University
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1130 11:30–12:15

Invited Talk: On obfuscating quantum computation

Invited
Mi-Ying Miryam Huang
University of Southern California
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1215 12:15–13:45

Lunch at CRX

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Dining Hall
1345 13:45–14:05

Contributed Talk: #21 Quantitative quantum soundness for all multipartite compiled nonlocal games

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1405 14:05–14:25

Contributed Talk: #108 Reliable Entropy Estimation for device-independent QKD based on Layer-Cake Representations of Divergences

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1425 14:25–14:45

Contributed Talk: #109 QKD with local self-testing: device-independent security and device-dependent performance

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1445 14:45–15:05

Contributed Talk: #131 Robust One-Sided Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution via High-Dimensional Steering

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1505 15:05–15:35

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1535 15:35–17:15

Industry Panel: Quantum Satellite Infrastructure and Applications

Program
Johanna Sepulveda, Andrew Csizmar, Makan Mohageg, Steve Montminy
Airbus, Honeywell Aerospace, Boeing Co, Canadian Space Agency
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1715 17:15–17:45

Open discussion about the current and future editions of QCrypt

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1800 18:00–21:30

Friday, August 28, 2026

0815 08:15–08:55
0855 08:55–09:00

Updates & Announcements

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0900 09:00–09:20

Contributed Talk: #3 Comparing classical and quantum conditional disclosure of secrets

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0920 09:20–09:40

Contributed Talk: #44 Security of the Fischlin Transform in the Quantum Random Oracle Model

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
0940 09:40–10:00

Contributed Talk: #48 Composable Verification in the Circuit-Model via Magic-Blindness

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1000 10:00–10:20

Contributed Talk: #64 Non Interactive MPC, (Quantumly) Revisited

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1020 10:20–11:20

Hot Topics Meeting

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1120 11:20–11:50

Coffee Break

Break
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 105
1150 11:50–12:10

Contributed Talk: #15 On Removing Interaction from Quantum Proofs

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1210 12:10–12:30

Contributed Talk: #78 Hybrid Quantum Cryptography from Communication Complexity: From Theory to Experimental benchmarking

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1230 12:30–12:50

Contributed Talk: #61 How to Delete Without a Trace: Certified Deniability in a Quantum World

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1250 12:50–13:10

Contributed Talk: #113 Quantum-Secure Private Inference from Vacuum Fluctuations

Contributed
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
1310 13:10–13:30

Closing Remarks

Program
Learning Crossroads (CRX), Room 140
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