The EPSRC Quantum Communications Hub

Lead Research Organisation: University of York
Department Name: Physics

Abstract

Quantum technologies (QT) are new, disruptive information technologies that can outperform their conventional counterparts, in communications, sensing, imaging and computing. The UK has already invested significantly in a national programme for QT, to develop and exploit these technologies, and is now investing further to stimulate new UK industry and generate a supply of appropriately skilled technologists across the range of QT sectors.
All QT exploit the various quantum properties of light or matter in some way. Our work is in the communications sector, and is based on the fundamental effect that measuring or detecting quantum light signals irreversibly disturbs them. This effect is built into Nature, and will not go away even when technologies (quantum or conventional) are improved in the future. The fundamental disturbance of transmitted quantum light signals enables secure communications, as folk intercepting signals when they are not supposed to (so-called eavesdroppers) will always get caught. This means Alice and Bob can use quantum light signals to set up secure shared data, or keys, which they can then use for a range of secure communications and transactions - this is quantum key distribution (QKD). The irreversible disturbance of light can also be used to generate random numbers - another very important ingredient for secure communications, cryptology, simulation and modelling.
In the modern world where communications are so ubiquitous and important, there is increasing demand for new secure methods. Technologies and methods widely used today will be vulnerable to emergent quantum computing technologies, so encrypted information being sent around today which has a long security shelf-life will be at risk in the future. New "quantum safe" methods that are not vulnerable to any future QT have to be developed. So QKD and new mathematical encryption must be made practical and cost effective, and soon.
The grand vision of the Quantum Communications Hub is therefore to pursue quantum communications at all distance scales, to offer a range of applications and services and the potential for integration with existing infrastructure. Very short distance communications require free space connections for flexibility. Examples include between a phone or other handheld device and a terminal, or between numerous devices and a fixed receiver in a room. The Hub will be engineering these "many-to-one" technologies to enhance practicality and real-world operation. Longer distance conventional communications - at city, metropolitan and inter-city scales - already use optical fibres, and quantum communications have to leverage and complement this. The Hub has already established the UK's first quantum network, the UKQN. We will be extending and enhancing the UKQN, adding function and capability, and introducing new QKD technologies - using quantum light analogous to that used in conventional communications, or using entanglement working towards even longer distance fibre communications. The very longest distance communications - intercontinental and across oceans - require satellites. The Hub will therefore work on a new programme developing ground to satellite QKD links.
Commercial QKD technologies for all distance scales will require miniaturisation, for size, weight and power savings, and to enable mass manufacture. The Hub will therefore address key engineering for on-chip operation and integration.
Although widely applicable, key-sharing does not provide a solution for all secure communication scenarios. The Hub will therefore research other new quantum protocols, and the incorporation of QKD into wider security solutions.
Given the changing landscape worldwide, it is becoming increasingly important for the UK to establish national capability, both in quantum communication technologies and their key components such as light sources and detectors. The Hub has assembled an excellent team to deliver this capability.

Planned Impact

As the mission of the Hub is research-led development of quantum communications technologies and their widespread adoption, this should lead to new industries, new applications and new services for new markets. We expect the benefits and therefore the impacts of these to become pervasive, affecting all from government and UK PLC to consumers. To ensure maximum impact of the Hub's work, we will work with a wide range of partners in the public and private sectors, and the different mechanisms they provide for effecting impact. For example:
1. Regular consultation with our Hub Advisory Board, which will include industry leaders with extensive experience in development for market and effective translation of prototype systems into products.
2. Standards, plus active promotion of IP generation, protection and exploitation, directly or through licensing. We will encourage university spin-outs and pre-revenue start-ups. Examples of each from Phase 1 are the highly successful KETS Quantum Security Ltd (commercialisation of chip-based quantum communication technologies), and Arqit (commercialisation of satellite QKD).
3. Direct involvement of industry within the expanding Quantum Technologies (QT) sector to ensure effective translation of research-led systems to market-led products. For example, we will continue working with the main QKD systems manufacturers -ID Quantique and Toshiba - to demonstrate systems and their integration on our UK Quantum Network, for eventual deployment in commercial networks provided by operators including in the UK, BT.
4. Working with industry and commerce to promote commercialisation of technologies stimulated by Hub research ("tech transfer"). For example through demonstration, but also through consortia put together explicitly for the purpose of commercialisation or prototype development - either through private finance, or co-financed with the public sector. The Hub has played a leading part in recent IUK/ISCF competitions to this end, and will continue to do so.
5. Consultation and collaboration with industrial and commercial stakeholders new to QT who are ready to exploit the technology themselves, as well as in a position to lead or promote exploitation in their own sectors. Examples include Energy and Finance where even marginal improvements have disproportionate commercial benefits.
6. Identification of new areas of QT research with potentially very high impact for the UK - for example satellite quantum communications. We have been instrumental in bringing together public stake-holders (e.g. the UK Space Agency, RAL Space, InnovateUK/KTN), relevant UK research strengths (in terrestrial quantum communications) and commercial interests (Arqit, BT). This has resulted in momentum for research-led development of new UK industries with potentially global impact.
7. Promotion, demonstration and engagement, notably on Science/Innovation parks. These provide (often sector-specific) concentrations of industry and commerce, responsive to targeted approaches.
8. Active networking and training to produce skilled scientists through our own support for PhDs / PDRAs; working with the QT CDTs to support turning scientific interest into entrepreneurial endeavour and injection of both into companies and markets.
9. Further expand our extensive public engagement activities and continue the Quantum Ambassadors programme, for impact with the general public and in school education.
Our aim across all fronts will be to maximise impact by the most effective means. Our experience to date indicates that what works best depends upon multiple factors. We will therefore put together bespoke programmes determined by the specifics of the requirement and opportunity, and using the appropriate means selected from a wide array of options--from large events tailored to demonstrate value to focused sessions with leaders of particular industries; from media interviews and articles, to dynamic promotion via social media.

People

ORCID iD

Timothy Spiller (Principal Investigator)
John Rarity (Co-Investigator)
Luke Russell Wilson (Co-Investigator)
Ayesha Khalid (Co-Investigator)
Mark Fox (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9025-2441
Máire O'Neill (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6865-6212
Carlos Perez Delgado (Co-Investigator)
Daniel Oi (Co-Investigator)
Chris Erven (Co-Investigator)
Ross Donaldson (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6450-1889
Adrian Kent (Co-Investigator)
Jon Heffernan (Co-Investigator)
Maurice Skolnick (Co-Investigator)
Dominic O'Brien (Co-Investigator)
Dimitra Simeonidou (Co-Investigator)
Stefano Pirandola (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6165-5615
Ian Hugh White (Co-Investigator)
Robert Hadfield (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8084-4187
Reza Nejabati (Co-Investigator)
Pieter Kok (Co-Investigator)
Ciara Marie Rafferty (Co-Investigator)
Douglas Paul (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7402-8530
Julio Hernandez-Castro (Co-Investigator)
Alessandro Fedrizzi (Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5089-3148
Richard Penty (Co-Investigator)
Erika Andersson (Co-Investigator)
Dondu Sahin (Co-Investigator)
Roger Colbeck (Co-Investigator)
Gerald Buller (Co-Investigator)
Andrew Vick (Co-Investigator)
Ke Guo (Researcher) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9698-5208
Dmitry Morozov (Researcher)
Ittoop Puthoor (Researcher) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0649-5924
Robert Woodward (Researcher) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5026-494X
Luca Mazzarella (Researcher)
Stephen Thoms (Researcher)
Anthony Vaquero-Stainer (Researcher) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4388-729X
Siddarth Joshi (Researcher Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4987-457X
Adrian Wonfor (Researcher Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2219-7900
David Lowndes (Researcher Co-Investigator)
Rupesh Kumar Parapatil Subramanian (Researcher Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6813-6401
Emilio Hugues Salas (Researcher Co-Investigator) orcid http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3618-1395
Georgios Kanellos (Researcher Co-Investigator)
Damian Pitalua Garcia (Researcher Co-Investigator)
Djeylan Vincent Ceylan Aktas (Researcher Co-Investigator)

Publications

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Description Fedrizzi, Oral evidence submission at SCIT committee inquiry, Hourses of Parliament, November 2023.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://committees.parliament.uk/work/7382/commercialising-quantum-technologies/publications/
 
Description Hub investigators Chunnilall, O'Neill, Rarity, Spiller, and Vick are all members of the Quantum Communications Task & Finish advisory Group, overseen by BEIS
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Hub investigators Nejabati and Spiller are both members of the Advisory Group overseeing the Quantum Technologies for High-Value Sectors Road Mapping work commissioned by BEIS and carried out by commercial company PA Consulting.
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Membership of a guideline committee
 
Description Hub investigators provided input to the Regulatory Horizon Council's report into the standardisation of Quantum Technologies, 2023-24
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
Impact Points raised during the discussions of the Regulatory Horizon Council review team with members of the Hub were taken into consideration when putting together the final report. In particular, the following recommendations that ended up in the report are strongly embraced by Hub researchers: Recommendation 12: Given the NCSC's concerns about the security benefits of QKD and the potential value and demand seen by the industry, DSIT, the NCSC, and other quantum technology stakeholders should collaborate to ensure the UK's leadership in QKD research and development is not inadvertently eroded. To achieve this: A) DSIT should encourage an expansion of the ongoing dialogue between the NCSC and quantum technology stakeholders to continue regularly reviewing this position, ensuring alignment with the evolving technological and security landscapes. B) As the technology develops, BSI and NPL, in partnership with key stakeholders and the NCSC, should continue to develop standards and assurance needed for QKD to be a recognised trusted technology. DSIT should help facilitate this coordination in line with responsible innovation practices.
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/regulatory-horizons-council-regulating-quantum-technology...
 
Description Professor Spiller submitted evidence to the UK Quantum Strategy online consultation organised by BEIS (February-March 2022)
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/uk-quantum-strategy-call-for-evidence
 
Description Professors Buller, Penty and Spiller were invited panelists to the "UK's strengths and weaknesses in quantum technologies research" specialist workshop, organised by BEIS to help determine the future UK quantum strategy
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
 
Description Spiller, submission of written evidence to the call on the National Security and Investment Act
Geographic Reach National 
Policy Influence Type Contribution to a national consultation/review
URL https://www.gov.uk/government/news/deputy-prime-minister-reveals-national-security-powers-to-respond...
 
Description AIRQKD
Amount £5,791,335 (GBP)
Funding ID 45364 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2020 
End 06/2023
 
Description Airbus: Viable Satellite Free Space Optical Quantum Key Distribution Technologies (ViSatQT) (D. Oi, University of Southampton)
Amount £104,706 (GBP)
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2020 
End 10/2021
 
Description Airguide Photonics, Airguide Quantum Communications (R. Donaldson, Heriot Watt University - related to EP/P030181/1)
Amount £65,212 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2020 
End 09/2021
 
Description Assurance for quantum random number generators
Amount £2,753,822 (GBP)
Funding ID 49229 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2020 
End 08/2023
 
Description Compact MicroLED Satellite QKD Source
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ETP1-031 
Organisation UK Space Agency 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2023 
End 07/2024
 
Description EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account - University of York 2017 (Spiller T., "Northern Quantum Network")
Amount £2,247,310 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/R51181X/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2020 
End 03/2021
 
Description GaO2 materials for UV space sensors
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Organisation UK Space Agency 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2024 
End 07/2025
 
Description Hollow core fiber for quantum secured MEC interconnection (G. Kanellos, University of Bristol)
Amount £36,302 (GBP)
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2020 
End 02/2021
 
Description International Network on Space Quantum Technologies
Amount £480,293 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/W027011/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 02/2022 
End 02/2025
 
Description LOTIS
Amount £250,000 (GBP)
Funding ID ETP1-025 
Organisation UK Space Agency 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2023 
End 08/2024
 
Description Next Generation Satellite QKD - Creating a UK Sovereign Capability for Manufacturing Satellite QKD Payloads
Amount £4,505,983 (GBP)
Funding ID 41172 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 05/2020 
End 06/2023
 
Description QFoundry (Jon Heffernan, University of Sheffield)
Amount £5,800,000 (GBP)
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 08/2020 
End 08/2023
 
Description Quantum-Enhanced Interferometry for New Physics
Amount £643,442 (GBP)
Funding ID ST/T005920/1 
Organisation Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 12/2020 
End 09/2025
 
Description ReFQ(JADE): Modular WCP Sources & RFI Protocols for Space-based QKD Demonstrations (University of Bristol, University of Southampton)
Amount £388,000 (GBP)
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2020 
End 10/2023
 
Description Responsive Operations for Key Services (ROKS PAYLOAD FLIGHT MODEL - DISCOVERY PHASE, University of Bristol, University of Strathclyde)
Amount £442,000 (GBP)
Organisation UK Space Agency 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2020 
End 05/2021
 
Description SPIDAR - Single Photon Infrared Imaging, Detection and Ranging
Amount £3,591,662 (GBP)
Funding ID 44835 
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2020 
End 03/2024
 
Description Satellite Ground Station Research Facility
Amount £1,042,525 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/X014320/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 01/2023 
End 12/2025
 
Description Single Photon Imaging, Detection and Ranging (SPIDAR) (University of Glasgow, Heriot Watt University)
Amount £5,720,000 (GBP)
Organisation Innovate UK 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 09/2020 
End 09/2023
 
Description Towards The Quantum Internet: Interconnecting Quantum Networks
Amount £307,445 (GBP)
Funding ID EP/X039439/1 
Organisation Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 03/2024 
End 08/2026
 
Description Towards a Federated Satellite Quantum Key Distribution System
Amount £385,843 (GBP)
Organisation UK Space Agency 
Sector Public
Country United Kingdom
Start 11/2020 
End 03/2021
 
Description Unknown
Amount £455,024 (GBP)
Organisation European Space Agency 
Sector Public
Country France
Start 09/2023 
End 05/2027
 
Title A low cost, short range quantum key distribution system 
Description This is raw data, processing code and figure data from the paper "A low cost, short range quantum key distribution system" 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2jhamuznu717y2dts7wbwy9shl/
 
Title Infrared single-photon sensitivity in atomic layer deposited superconducting nanowires 
Description  
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL http://researchdata.gla.ac.uk/id/eprint/1146
 
Title Integrate and scale: a source of spectrally separable photon pairs 
Description Dataset corresponding with modelling, simulation and measurement results regarding a new integrated photonic resonant cavity device used for the generation of ultra-pure and bright photon pairs. 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/250jeya5avudl2pdsgf6tmq7cj/
 
Title SatQKD_sim_data 
Description Raw output data from simulations for practical performance limits in SatQKD. The source code used to generate datasets is archived at https://github.com/cnqo-qcomms/SatQuMA/. Dataset categorised by data for each figure, as they appear in Finite key performance of satellite quantum key distribution under practical constraints, Jasminder S. Sidhu, Thomas Brougham, Duncan McArthur, Roberto G. Pousa, Daniel K. L. Oi (2023): arXiv version: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.13209 Accepted in Nature Communications Physics (Jun 2023). 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2023 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://zenodo.org/record/8100937
 
Title Timing and Synchronisation for High-Loss Free-Space Quantum Communication with Hybrid de Bruijn Code 
Description These data are measured and simulated from the experimental setup described in the publication: "Timing and Synchronisation for High-Loss Free-Space Quantum Communication with Hybrid de Bruijn Code" 
Type Of Material Database/Collection of data 
Year Produced 2021 
Provided To Others? Yes  
URL https://data.bris.ac.uk/data/dataset/2n9e04k9mlpck2oy6mqp62bvs4/
 
Description Hub investigators from Strathclyde are working with NUS Singapore on establishing standardisation for OGS following signed MOU with NUS on Coordination of Space Quantum Comms missions 
Organisation National University of Singapore
Country Singapore 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Hub investigators from Strathclyde are working with NUS Singapore on establishing standardisation for OGS following signed MOU with NUS on Coordination of Space Quantum Comms missions
Collaborator Contribution As above, part of reciprocal discussions
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2023
 
Description Hub investigators from Strathclyde are working with NUS Singapore on establishing standardisation for OGS following signed MOU with NUS on Coordination of Space Quantum Comms missions 
Organisation University of Strathclyde
Country United Kingdom 
Sector Academic/University 
PI Contribution Hub investigators from Strathclyde are working with NUS Singapore on establishing standardisation for OGS following signed MOU with NUS on Coordination of Space Quantum Comms missions
Collaborator Contribution As above, part of reciprocal discussions
Impact None yet.
Start Year 2023
 
Title Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination: supplementary material and code for figures 
Description This zip file contains the code used to generate the figures in the paper: "Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination". See the README for more details on the files. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2020 
Open Source License? Yes  
URL https://zenodo.org/record/4281118
 
Title Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination: supplementary material and code for figures 
Description This zip file contains the code used to generate the figures in the paper: "Bounds on amplitude damping channel discrimination". See the README for more details on the files. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2020 
Open Source License? Yes  
URL https://zenodo.org/record/4281117
 
Title Characterising port-based teleportation as a universal simulator of qubit channels: supplementary material 
Description This zip file contains a Mathematica file containing some of the calculations in the paper: "Characterising port-based teleportation as a universal simulator of qubit channels" and a file with functions implementing the expressions for the output of port-based teleportation with an arbitrary resource state. See the README for more details on the files. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
URL https://zenodo.org/record/4673075
 
Title Characterising port-based teleportation as a universal simulator of qubit channels: supplementary material 
Description This zip file contains a Mathematica file containing some of the calculations in the paper: "Characterising port-based teleportation as a universal simulator of qubit channels" and a file with functions implementing the expressions for the output of port-based teleportation with an arbitrary resource state. See the README for more details on the files. 
Type Of Technology Software 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
URL https://zenodo.org/record/4673076
 
Title SatQuMA (Satellite Quantum Modelling & Analysis Software) 
Description SatQuMA is a numerical toolkit that determines the finite key capacity in satellite-based quantum key distribution (SatQKD). It is being developed to provide modelling and analysis for SatQKD missions and is available to download on GitHub 
Type Of Technology Webtool/Application 
Year Produced 2021 
Open Source License? Yes  
Impact Applications of SatQuMA have enabled an estimate of key generation capacities for different system properties and optical ground station locations. This supported in the decision-making for where the UK Quantum Communications Hub OGS should be. The user interface (UI) for SatQuMA, though in its early stages, provides an easier way to interact with the code. This is expected to invite more collaborative efforts in interacting with SatQuMA, which will improve its development. A recent study (see below) showed it is possible to obtain improved finite secret keys for three different small-satellite-based QKD projects CQT-Sat, UK-QUARC-ROKS, and QEYSSat under typical very high loss conditions. Insights derived from SatQuMA can help guide experimental and engineering efforts aiming to develop QKD systems. Its open-source nature means it is possible to contribute to its development and we are actively looking for researchers across the Quantum Communications Hub and abroad for collaborative efforts to extend the development of SatQuMA. 
URL https://cnqo.phys.strath.ac.uk/research/quantum-information/satquma/
 
Description A. Fedrizzi, Experimental demonstration of multi-party conference key agreement, QCrypt, contributed talk, August 10-14 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub co-investigator Fedrizzi gave a contributed talk (Experimental demonstration of multi-party conference key agreement) at the QCrypt 2020 virtual conference, August 10-14 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://2020.qcrypt.net/
 
Description A. Weerasinghe et al. - Contributed talk "Practical High-Speed Gaussian Coherent State Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution With Real-Time Parameter Monitoring and Post Processed Key Distillation", OFC 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact "Practical High-Speed Gaussian Coherent State Continuous Variable Quantum Key Distribution With Real-Time Parameter Monitoring and Post Processed Key Distillation", Amanda Weerasinghe , Muataz Alhussein, He Li, Adrian Wonfor, Richard Penty, OFC 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description A. Wonfor - invited talk ("QKD secured networks in the UK") presented at the Next Generation Networking, Multi-Service Networks workshop, Coseners House, Abingdon, UK, Jul. 07, 2022 . 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator A. Wonfor gave an invited talk ("QKD secured networks in the UK") at the Next Generation Networking, Multi-Service Networks workshop, Coseners House, Abingdon, UK, Jul. 07, 2022 .
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://coseners.net/
 
Description Alfonson Tello gave a contributed talk (Time-bin quantum key distribution receiver designs for free-space channels.) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub PhD student Tello gave a contributed talk (Time-bin quantum key distribution receiver designs for free-space channels.) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30615&eventID=1255
 
Description Alia et al - poster presentation "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact O. Alia, A. Schreier, R. Wang, S. Bahrani, R. Singh, G. Faulkner, J. Rarity, D. O'Brien, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu5.67.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ECEOC-2022-Tu5.67
 
Description Andersson - invited talk at a workshop on Atom-based quantum photonics, Durham, 13-15 July 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Andersson - invited talk at a workshop on Atom-based quantum photonics, Durham, 13-15 July 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Andersson - invited tutorial on "Quantum cryptography beyond quantum key distribution" at the Review Meeting for the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, 10-12 May 2022, Chalmers University, Gothenburg 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Andersson - invited tutorial on "Quantum cryptography beyond quantum key distribution" at the Review Meeting for the Wallenberg Centre for Quantum Technology, 10-12 May 2022, Chalmers University, Gothenburg
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Andersson E - talk on quantum communication at a virtual "teach-in" for UK regulators on 7 Nov, arranged by the QCS Hub and the NQCC 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Andersson E - talk on quantum communication at a virtual "teach-in" for UK regulators on 7 Nov, arranged by the QCS Hub and the NQCC
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Andy Schreier - Contributed talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at the Telecommunications, Optics & Photonics (TOP) Conference, London, February 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Andy Schreier gave a contributed talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at the 2022 Telecommunications, Optics & Photonics (TOP) Conference in London (15 February 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://topconference.com/timetable/
 
Description Anthony Vaquero-Stainer gave a contributed talk (Concurrent transmission of time and QKD signals over a single optical fibre) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/20) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Vaquero-Stainer gave a contributed talk (Concurrent transmission of time and QKD signals over a single optical fibre) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/20)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30615&eventID=1255
 
Description Arabul E - Contributed talk "Resilient, Quantum-Secured, Time Deterministic and Programmable Network Interface Card for 5G RAN" [Presentation]. In Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics (TOP) Conference. February 2022. London, UK. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact E. Arabul - contributed talk "Resilient, Quantum-Secured, Time Deterministic and Programmable Network Interface Card for 5G RAN" [Presentation]. In Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics (TOP) Conference. February 2022. London, UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://topconference.com/timetable-2022/
 
Description Arabul et al - Contributed talk "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact E. Arabul, R. D. Oliveira, R. Wang, O. Alia, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu3B.2.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ECEOC-2022-Tu3B.2
 
Description Bahrani, an invited talk, "Resource allocation and network architecture design in distributed quantum computing interconnect networks" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub resercher Sima Bahrani gave an invited talk with the title "Resource allocation and network architecture design in distributed quantum computing interconnect networks" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/events/2023/smart-2023-conference.html
 
Description C. Lupo gave a contributed talk (The quantum limit to incoherent imaging is achieved by linear interferometry) at the 24th IMEKO TC4 International virtual Symposium 14 - 16 October 2020 Palermo, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact C. Lupo gave a contributed talk (The quantum limit to incoherent imaging is achieved by linear interferometry) at the 24th IMEKO TC4 International virtual Symposium 14 - 16 October 2020 Palermo,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.imeko-tc4-2020.org/
 
Description Cambridge, York and Bristol successfully organised the 2nd workshop on quantum networks (QNetworks 2022) held in Cambridge on 11 and 12 April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Cambridge and Bristol successfully organised the 2nd workshop on quantum networks held in Cambridge on 11 and 12 April 2022. It was attended by about 100 in person attendees with another 150 attending online
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?site=research-community
 
Description Campbell, D et al. - Poster presentation (Acceleration of Post Quantum Digital Signature Scheme CRYSTALS-Dilithium on reconfigurable hardware), International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Belfast (Aug-Sept 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Campbell, D., Khalid, A., Rafferty, C., & O'Neill, M. (2022). Poster presentation: Acceleration of Post Quantum Digital Signature Scheme CRYSTALS-Dilithium on reconfigurable hardware. Poster session presented at International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), Belfast (29 August - 2 September 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.fpl.org/
 
Description Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (June 20-21) Dogecoin v Schrodinger's cat: What the advent of quantum computing means for the cryptocurrency economy. Kent Tech R&D Conference. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (June 20-21) Dogecoin v Schrodinger's cat: What the advent of quantum computing means for the cryptocurrency economy. Kent Tech R&D Conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.kent.ac.uk/events/event/54151/kent-technology-fair
 
Description Chiriano, Contributed talk at CLEO/Europe-EQEC, Munich, 26 - 30 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Fabrizio Chiriano gave a contributed talk at CLEO/Europe-EQEC conference, Munich, 26 - 30 June 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.cleoeurope.org/
 
Description Chunnilall - invited presentation "Assessment of quantum random number generators" at the WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Photonic Quantum Technologies" 17-19 March, Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Chunnilall - invited presentation "Assessment of quantum random number generators" at the WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Photonic Quantum Technologies" 17-19 March, Germany
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Chunnilall C - Contributed talk contributed talk on the 'EMN-Q' at the EURAMET session "EURAMET metrology - facing and solving digital challenges" at the IMEKO TC6 International Conference on Digital Transformation, 19 Sep 2022 | Berlin and online. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chris Chunnilall gave a contributed talk on the 'EMN-Q' at the EURAMET session "EURAMET metrology - facing and solving digital challenges" at the IMEKO TC6 International Conference on Digital Transformation, 19 Sep 2022 | Berlin and online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Chunnilall C - contributed talk ( "Standardised measures for security assurance of quantum photonic hardware - QKD & QRNGs") at Photon 2022 (Nottingham, Sep 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Christopher Chunnilall gave a presentation in the industry technology programme at Photon 2022 (Nottingham, Sep 2022) "Standardised measures for security assurance of quantum photonic hardware - QKD & QRNGs"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.photon.org.uk/
 
Description Chunnilall C - contributed talk on 'Metrology for quantum photonics' at the Workshop "Metrology: the present and the future", 21 Nov 2022 | Lisbon and online. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chris Chunnilall gave a contributed talk on 'Metrology for quantum photonics' at the Workshop "Metrology: the present and the future", 21 Nov 2022 | Lisbon and online.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Chunnilall C a poster ("Assessment of device-dependent quantum random number generators") at SPW2022 (Seoul, Nov 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chunnilall C a poster ("Assessment of device-dependent quantum random number generators") at SPW2022 (Seoul, Nov 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://platform.qureca.com/event/single-photon-workshop-spw-2022/
 
Description Chunnilall C participated in the panel session on the 'Evolution of Standards for QKD and QRNGs' at the Inside Quantum Technology Fall 2021 conference, 1-4 Nov 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Chunnilall C participated in the panel session on the 'Evolution of Standards for QKD and QRNGs' at the Inside Quantum Technology Fall 2021 conference, 1-4 Nov 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Chunnilall, Contributed talk "Assessment of Device-Dependent Quantum Random Number Generators" at the 9th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography Workshop Feb 2023, Sophia Antipolis, France 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Christopher Chunnilall (NPL) gave a presentation "Assessment of Device-Dependent Quantum Random Number Generators" at the 9th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography Workshop Feb 2023, Sophia Antipolis, France.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.etsi.org/events/2117-2023-02-9th-etsi-iqc-quantum-safe-cryptography-workshop
 
Description Chunnilall, contribution to the formation of industry standards (ETSI Industry Specification Group on QKD), which were subsequently published, April 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Chris Chunnilall from NPL participated in the 33nd (Virtual, 5-7 Dec, 2022) biannual meeting of the ETSI Industry Specification Group on QKD (20-21 June, 2022), contributing to the drafting of documents on a 'Protection Profile', 'Security Proofs', 'Transmitter Module characterisation', 'Protection against Trojan-horse Attacks' and 'Vocabulary'. The Protection Profile - ETSI GS QKD 016 V1.1.1 (2023-04) - was published in April 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022,2023
URL https://www.etsi.org/deliver/etsi_gs/QKD/001_099/016/01.01.01_60/gs_QKD016v010101p.pdf
 
Description Clark et al. - Contributed talk (Towards a Fully Connected Many-User Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network Within Deployed Telecommunications Fibre-Optic Infrastructure) at CLEO 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact M. J. Clark et al., "Towards a Fully Connected Many-User Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network Within Deployed Telecommunications Fibre-Optic Infrastructure," 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-2.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9891083
 
Description Clark, contributed talk at Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics (TOP) conference - London - 13-14 February 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub researcher Clark gave a contributed talk at the Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics (TOP) conference - London - 13-14 February 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Clark, poster presentation at Bristol Quantum Information Technology (BQIT) conference - Bristol - 24-27 April 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Clark gave a poster presentation at Bristol Quantum Information Technology (BQIT) conference - Bristol - 24-27 April 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Co-authored blog piece with industry partner Cisco on joint Hub work, November 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact The Cambridge Hub team worked together with industry partner Cisco to write a blog post on hybrid QKD and Post-Quantum cryptography, an outcome of the Hub partnership resource funded QPID project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://gblogs.cisco.com/uki/bringing-post-quantum-cryptography-to-communications-networks/
 
Description Colbeck , panelist on Assurance of Quantum Random Number Generators, Quantum.TECH meeting, Twickenham stadium, London, September 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub investigator Roger Colbeck was part of a Panel discussion on Assurance of Quantum Random Number Generators, Quantum.TECH meeting, Twickenham stadium, London, September 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Colbeck - public lecture "From spooky quantum phenomena to 'impossible' new technologies" at York Talks 2022 held virtually 12th January 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Colbeck - public lecture "From spooky quantum phenomena to 'impossible' new technologies" at York Talks 2022 held virtually 12th January 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.york.ac.uk/research/events/yorktalks/2022/
 
Description Colbeck R - invited tutorial on device-independent QKD at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Colbeck R - invited tutorial on device-independent QKD at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.qcrypt.net/
 
Description Contributed presentation (Kent A; Lowndes D; Pitalúa-García D; Rarity J): Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories and experimental tests, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Kent et al. gave an online presentation (Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories and experimental tests) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2021-08-27
 
Description Contributed presentation (Sidhu JS; Brougham T; McArthur D; Pousa RG; Oi DKL): Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Sidhu (et al.) gave an online presentation (Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference (23-27 August) which took place virtually
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2021-08-27
 
Description Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García ("Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García ("Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García, ("One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer"). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Crptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 14, 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García, ("One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer"). Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Crptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 14, 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Contributed talk (Alia O, Tessinari RS, Hugues-Salas E, Kanellos GT, Nejabati R and Simeonidou D): Wavelength Resources Management and Switching of Active Entanglement Distribution Circuits in Optical Networks, OFC 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Alia et al. gave a contributed talk (Wavelength Resources Management and Switching of Active Entanglement Distribution Circuits in Optical Networks) at the 2021 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC) (p.1-3) [online]
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9489674
 
Description Contributed talk (Alia O; Stange Tessinari R; Bradley T; Sakr H; Harrington K; Hayes J; Chen Y; Petropoulos P; Kanellos G; Richardson D; Poletti F; Najebati R; Simeonidou D): Coexistence of a Quantum QKD Channel and 4×100 Gbps Classical Channels in Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Hollow Core Fibre, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Alia et al. gave a contributed talk (Coexistence of a Quantum QKD Channel and 4×100 Gbps Classical Channels in Nested Antiresonant Nodeless Hollow Core Fibre) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2021-08-27
 
Description Contributed talk (Ho J; Pickston A; Graffitti F; Grasselli F; Morrison CL; Proietti M ; Ulibarrena A; Fedrizzi A): Quantum conference key agreement using photonic graph state, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ho et al. gave a contributed talk (Quantum conference key agreement using photonic graph state) at the 2021 QCrypt international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/contributed3a/
 
Description Contributed talk (Kumar R; Mazzoncini F; Qin H; Alléaume R): QKD Attack Rating: Prioritizing is the key to Practical Security, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Kumar et al. gave a contributed talk (QKD Attack Rating: Prioritizing is the key to Practical Security) at the 2021 QCrypt international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/contributed2a/
 
Description Contributed talk (Woodward R I, Lo Y S, Pittaluga M, Minder M, Paraïso T K, Lucamarini M, Yuan Z L & Shields A J): Simplifying Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Directly Modulated Laser Sources, OFC 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Woodward et al. gave a contributed talk (Simplifying Measurement-Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution with Directly Modulated Laser Sources) at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021, (pp. 1-3), 6-10 June 2021 [online]
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9489752
 
Description Contributed talk (Woodward RI, Dynes JF, Wright P, White C, Parker RC, Wonfor A, Yuan ZL, Lord A, Shields AJ): Quantum Key Secured Communications Field Trial for Industry 4.0, OFC 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Woodward et al. gave a contributed talk (Quantum Key Secured Communications Field Trial for Industry 4.0) at the Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), 2021, (pp. 1-3.)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9489683
 
Description Contributed talk - (Sidhu J.S., Izumi S., Neergaard-Nielsen J.S., Lupo C., Andersen U.L.): Quantum received for phase-shift keying at single photon level, AQIS 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Jasminder Sidhu et al. gave a contributed talk (online - Quantum received for phase-shift keying at single photon level) at the 21th Asian Quantum Information Science Conference (AQIS 2021), 1-4 September 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://aqis-conf.org/2021/
 
Description Contributed talk - Clark (Polarisation Based Entanglement Distribution Quantum Networking) at Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics conference, London, February 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub PhD student Marcus Clark gave a contributed talk (Polarisation Based Entanglement Distribution Quantum Networking) at the Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics conference, London, February 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://topconference.com/conference-progamme-2023/conference-programme/
 
Description Contributed talk - Donaldson R. (Free-space quantum communications) at the OPTICSMEET21 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ross Donaldson gave a contributed talk (Free-space quantum communications) at the OPTICSMEET2021 conference, Nice, France (1-3 November 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.albedomeetings.com/2021/opticsmeet
 
Description Contributed talk - E. Arabul, R. D. Oliveira, R. Wang, O. Alia, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor,", ECOC 2022, Switzerland 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact E. Arabul, R. D. Oliveira, R. Wang, O. Alia, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "Experimental Demonstration of High-Speed Self-Reconfiguration and Key Slicing for 100 Gbps Multi-User Programmable Hardware Encryptor," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu3B.2. Contributed talk at European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication 2022, Basel Switzerland, 18-22 September 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://opg.optica.org/abstract.cfm?uri=ECEOC-2022-Tu3B.2
 
Description Contributed talk - Kok P (In Memoriam Jonathan P Dowling: Photonic quantum data locking*), APS 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pieter Kok gave a contributed talk at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics, May 31-June 4 2021; Virtual; [Session Q04: Jon Dowling Memorial Session, 8:00 AM-9:30 AM, Thursday, June 3, 2021]
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DAMOP21/Session/Q04.2
 
Description Contributed talk by Adrian Kent (S-money: virtual tokens for a relativistic economy, work in collaboration with Damian Pitalua-Garcia) at the Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed talk by Adrian Kent (S-money: virtual tokens for a relativistic economy, work in collaboration with Damian Pitalua-Garcia) at the Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Contributed talk by Damián Pitalúa-García (Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration. Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity) at the Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Damián Pitalúa-García gave a contributed talk (Practical quantum tokens without quantum memories: towards a proof-of-principle experimental demonstration. Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity) at the Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.rri.res.in/~qff2020/
 
Description Contributed talk by Erika Andersson, "Quantum Oblivious Transfer". Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed talk by Erika Andersson, "Quantum Oblivious Transfer". Workshop on Relativistic Quantum Cryptography, Centre for Quantum Information and Foundations, DAMTP, University of Cambridge. Date of presentation: February 13, 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Daniel Oi gave a short presentation on Strathclyde/UK space quantum communications research as part of the Waterloo-Strathclyde Virtual Research Colloquium on Quantum Technologies, 12/11/2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigators Daniel Oi gave a short presentation on Strathclyde/UK space quantum communications research as part of the Waterloo-Strathclyde Virtual Research Colloquium on Quantum Technologies, 12/11/2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Daniel Oi gave a talk on the (partially) Hub sponsored, ROKS CubeSat project at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore (30/10/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Daniel Oi gave a talk on the (partially) Hub sponsored, ROKS CubeSat project at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore (30/10/2020). Some 50 people attended the talk.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://youtu.be/7sPkKEVXbd4
 
Description Daniel Oi gave an invited presentation at the Curtin University (Australia) as part of the IEEE Computer Society Seminar Series (9/7/2020, online) on "Space, Quantum Technologies, and CubeSats" 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Co-Investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited presentation at the Curtin University (Australia) as part of the IEEE Computer Society Seminar Series (9/7/2020, online) on "Space, Quantum Technologies, and CubeSats"
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYqdEH4QEfI&t=1s
 
Description David Lowndes presented a contributed talk (Low cost, short range quantum key distribution) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Lowndes presented a contributed talk (Low cost, short range quantum key distribution) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (03/09/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30549&eventID=1255
 
Description Director Spiller gave an invited outreach webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the Manchester and District branch of the IoP (15/12/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Director Spiller gave an invited outreach webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the Manchester and District branch of the IoP (15/12/2020). The webinar was live and followed by a Q&A session. The feedback was very positive and there were lots more questions forwarded to Spiller after the event by the organisers, which were all responded to and forwarded to the relevant delegates.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/7266096614890733327
 
Description Director Spiller gave an invited webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the IET Quantum Engineering Technical Network (10/11/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Director Spiller gave an invited webinar on the Quantum Communications Hub, organised by the IET Quantum Engineering Technical Network (10/11/2020). The event was delivered jointly with Jonathan Legh-Smith representing Hub partner BT and was followed by a Q&A session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/EventLobbyServlet?
 
Description Director Spiller took part in an online discussion panel on quantum technologies as part of the virtual Let's Get Physical 2020 conference organised by the Tommy Flowers Institute (15/10/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Director Spiller took part in an online discussion panel on quantum technologies as part of the virtual Let's Get Physical 2020 conference organised by the Tommy Flowers Institute (15/10/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://tommyflowersnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/2020-autumn-conference-lets-get.html
 
Description Director Spiller took part in an online international discussion panel as part of the pre-recorded YouTube screening of the 10 shortlisted films from the 2020 Quantum Shorts competition (25/02/2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Director Spiller took part in an online discussion panel as part of the pre-recorded YouTube screening of the 10 shortlisted films from the 2020 Quantum Shorts competition (25/02/2021). The event was organised by the Hub in collaboration with the competition organisers Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/screening-of-quantum-shorts-festival-finalists/?return=https%3...
 
Description Donaldon - public engagement talk ('Will I need a Light License?) at Edinburgh Fringe Festival Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas (August 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Ross Donaldson have a public engagement talk at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas - 'Will I need a Light License?':Audience total 50 over 2 shows in August 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://edinburghfestival.datathistle.com/event/1893220-the-cabaret-of-dangerous-ideas-light-licence...
 
Description Elliott Hastings presented a poster (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Elliott Hastings presented a poster (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, July 25-28). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work. At World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, July 25-28). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work. At World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing. Las Vegas, Nevada, United States.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://american-cse.org/index.html/
 
Description Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, June 8-10). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work . At Quantum Latino 2022 Conference. Mexico. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Fabiola Cañete-Leyva, Salvador Venagas, Carlos A. Perez-Delgado - Contributed talk (2022, June 8-10). A quantum search algorithm for classical proof-of-work . At Quantum Latino 2022 Conference. Mexico.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://quantum-latino.com/
 
Description Faruque, Talk at British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference 5-7 July 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Imad Faruque gave a talk at the British Society for the Philosophy of Science Annual Conference, 5-7 July 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.thebsps.org/news/bsps-2023-annual-conference-5-7-july/
 
Description Faruque, Talk at The 21st European Conference on Foundations of Physics, 8-10 July 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Imad Faruque gave a talk at The 21st European Conference on Foundations of Physics 8-10 July 2023, Bristol, UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://foundations2023.wordpress.com/
 
Description Fedrizzi A - talk on the work of the Hub at Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Alessandro Fedrizzi gave a talk on the work of the Hub at Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ukri.org/events/quantum-technologies-for-fundamental-physics-engagement-event/
 
Description Fox M - talk on the work of the Hub at the Quantum Materials Network meeting, January 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Mark Fox gave a talk on the work of the Hub at the Quantum Materials Network meeting, January 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.royce.ac.uk/news/materials-for-quantum-network-launches-in-manchester/
 
Description Friederike Jöhlinger et. al presented a poster (Trojan Horse Attack on Chip-Scale Quantum Key Distribution) at the 2020 online QCrypt conference 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Friederike Jöhlinger et. al presented a poster (Trojan Horse Attack on Chip-Scale Quantum Key Distribution) at the 2020 online QCrypt conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/
 
Description George Kanellos presented novel use cases for quantum networks beyond QKD in the Quantum Technologies Use-Cases session of the European Quantum Week, organized by the European Quantum Flagship with the collaboration of the European Commission (5/11/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact George Kanellos presented novel use cases for quantum networks beyond QKD in the Quantum Technologies Use-Cases session of the European Quantum Week, organized by the European Quantum Flagship with the collaboration of the European Commission (5/11/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://eqw.qt.eu/speakers/thursday/#george-kanellos
 
Description Ghalaii M - poster presentation (Composable end-to-end security of Gaussian quantum networks with untrusted relays) at Quantum Information 2022, Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria (26.6 - 1.7.2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Masoud Ghalaii gave a poster presentation (poster presentation (Composable end-to-end security of Gaussian quantum networks with untrusted relays) at Quantum Information 2022, Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria (26.6 - 1.7.2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.uibk.ac.at/th-physik/seefeld2022/
 
Description Gundogan M et al. - Poster presentation (Space-borne quantum memories for global quantum networking) at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Mustafa Gundogan ; Jasminder Sidhu ; Victoria Henderson ; Luca Mazzarella ; Janik Wolters ; Daniel Kl Oi ; Markus Krutzik, poster presentation ('Space-borne quantum memories for global quantum networking') at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Hastings E. gave a poster presentation (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the PHOTON 2020 conference (1/9/2020 - 4/9/2020, online) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hastings E. gave a poster presentation (Cube Satellite base Quantum Key Distribution) at the PHOTON 2020 conference (1/9/2020 - 4/9/2020, online)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Hastings et al - Contributed talk (Field Demonstration of Systems Towards CubeSat Quantum Key Distribution). In 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (pp. 1-2). IEEE. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Hastings, E., Zhang, P., Sagar, J., Stefko, M., Oi, D. K., Rarity, J., & Joshi, S. K. (2022, May). Contributed talk (Field Demonstration of Systems Towards CubeSat Quantum Key Distribution) at CLEO 2022 conference. In 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO) (pp. 1-2). IEEE.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9891506/references#references
 
Description Ho, contributed talk at CLEO/Europe-EQEC, Munich conference, 26 - 30 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Joseph Ho gave a contributed talk at CLEO/Europe-EQEC conference, Munich, 26 - 30 June 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.cleoeurope.org/
 
Description Hub PDRA Joshi S.K. gave a presentation on Quantum Communication with CubeSats at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub PDRA Joshi S.K. gave a presentation on Quantum Communication with CubeSats at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-...
 
Description Hub PDRA Kumar R. gave a contributed talk on quantum communications technologies as part of the BT/UCL Quantum Comms Focus Week (15-19/02/2021) organised by the UCL Quantum CDT. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Kumar R. gave a contributed talk on quantum communications technologies as part of the BT/UCL Quantum Comms Focus Week (15-19/02/2021) organised by the UCL Quantum CDT.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/quantum/news/2021/feb/bt-and-ucl-quantum-comms-focus-webinars-0
 
Description Hub PDRA Wonfor A. gave a talk on quantum networks during the BT/UCL Quantum Communications Focus Week (online, 15-19/02/2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Hub PDRA Wonfor A. gave a talk on quantum networks during the BT/UCL Quantum Communications Focus Week (online, 15-19/02/2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ucl.ac.uk/quantum/news/2021/feb/bt-and-ucl-quantum-comms-focus-webinars-0
 
Description Hub PDRAs Guo K. and Hebdige T. gave a presentation on Quantum Random Number Generators at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/20) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub PDRAs Guo K. and Hebdige T. gave a presentation on Quantum Random Number Generators at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/20)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-...
 
Description Hub PDRAs Schreier A. and Lowndes D. gave a talk on Consumer QKD at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub PDRAs Schreier A. and Lowndes D. gave a talk on Consumer QKD at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-...
 
Description Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a public engagement talk (the David Elder Lecture) at the, Glasgow Science Centre, 22nd February 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a public engagement talk (the David Elder Lecture) at the, Glasgow Science Centre, 22nd February 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.glasgowsciencecentre.org/discover/adult-events/david-elder-lectures
 
Description Hub investigators (incl. Spiller T.) have contributed to the Quantum Technologies report by the US Government Accountability Office (May 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigators have contributed to the Quantum Technologies report by the US Government Accountability Office (May 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-20-527SP
 
Description Hub investigators and industry partners coordinated the UK quantum community response to the 2020 Quantum Security Technologies NCSC White Paper 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Hub investigators and industry partners coordinated the UK quantum community response to the 2020 Quantum Security Technologies NCSC White Paper
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/community-response-to-the-ncsc-2020-quantum-security-technologi...
 
Description Hub investigators have contributed to the 'Future Horizons for Photonics Research 2030 and beyond' report (Sept. 2020) published by The Photonics Leadership Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group in Photonics and Quantum 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Photonics Leadership Group and the All-Party Parliamentary Group in Photonics and Quantum have released a report on the 'Future Horizons for Photonics Research 2030 and beyond' which aims to outline what will be possible in photonics in the next decade and beyond, and the substantial opportunities for the photonics industry in the UK.
Numerous Quantum Communications Hub investigators and advisory board members were among the 26 leading photonics academics in the UK that were invited to participate in the horizon scanning exercise, which required them to consider what the focus of photonics research will be, a decade and more from now. The report defines 70 research topics that will be the focus of photonics research, including established research topics and new research fields, organised into four broad categories: materials, optical and physical phenomenon, future manufacturing processes and devices and systems. Also identified within the report are the nine 'great challenges' representing major societal trends and concerns which will influence and motivate future photonics innovation: data, health and ageing, physical pollution, mobility and transport, climate change, defence and security, economic patriotism, scale and food production photon. The report recognises that the photonics industry is well established and is fundamental to many advanced technologies and industries, however, it also highlights that photonics innovation needs to undergo a 'step change' in order to combat the challenges indentified to be facing photonics in the future.

Finally, the report makes seven recommendations which include researchers, research agencies, funding agencies, policy makers and Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund (ISCF) Directors taking action in order to enable the identified topics to become research activity within the UK and for the potential benefits of photonics to be realised.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Future-Horizons-for-Photonics-Research_PL...
 
Description Hub investigators have organised jointly with NCSC a 2-day workshop on Quantum Communications and Cyber Security for industrial partners of the Hub and national quantum technologies programme stakeholders from BEIS, NPL, Satellite Catapult etc. (24/11 & 08/12/20) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigators have organised jointly with NCSC a 2-day workshop on Quantum Communications and Cyber Security for industrial partners of the Hub and national quantum technologies programme stakeholders from BEIS, NPL, Satellite Catapult etc. (24/11 & 08/12/20). This is part of an initiative for closer collaboration between the quantum and classic cryptography communities. A report will follow in 2021.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Hub investigators participated with many demos in the 2020 online national quantum technologies showcase 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The annual UK National Quantum Technologies Showcase, organised by the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) and Innovate UK, took place virtually for the first time, on Friday 6 November 2020. The event, which is usually held in London and attended by over 700 people from industry, government and media, was held online with a record 1200 delegates registered to attend. The virtual nature of the event meant that the expertise, capabilities and advances of quantum technologies in the UK and its real-world impact, along with the progress made so far in the second phase of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, could be shared with a global audience. The Quantum Communications Hub had three virtual stands at the Showcase and two virtual booths, through which, investigators gave technical demonstrations of our work, including some of our core technologies and technologies created through funded collaborations and partnerships. Across the two booths, the Hub showcased five demonstrations including: Consumer Quantum Key Distribution; Quantum Networking; Quantum Random Number Generators; Satellite QKD Ground-Based Receivers; and Quantum Communication with CubeSats. The Hub's virtual stands, which include a plethora of resources including leaflets and videos, are still available on the exhibitor section of the event website and will remain there for three months. Delegates were able to book one-to-one meetings with Hub colleagues to discuss our technologies and potential collaborations further.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/quantum-communications-hub-exhibits-at-first-ever-virtual-uk-na...
 
Description Hub organised workshop on Next Generation Quantum Protocols beyond QKD (September 2022, online) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigators Erika Andersson, Adrian Kent and Damián Pitalúa-García gave talks in the Next Generation Quan-tum Protocols Workshop that took place online on the 13th of September and was organised by the Hub with the National Cyber Security Centre. Erika gave the talks "Quantum Message Authentication" and "Quantum Fingerprinting". Adrian gave the talks "Quan-tum Money and Secure Tokens on Relativistic Networks" and "Quantum Position Authentication". Damián gave the talk "Quantum Money and Secure Tokens: Implementations and Trade-Offs". The aim of the workshop was to initiate a dialogue between the quantum cryptography and classical cryptography communities.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Hub researcher Joshi SK wrote a piece in online magazine The Conversation highlighting Hub's work on an entanglement-based quantum network (2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Hub researcher Joshi SK wrote a piece in online magazine The Conversation highlighting Hub's work on an 8-user, entanglement-based quantum network and based on this paper: Joshi et al., "A trusted node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network." Science Advances 6, no. 36 (2020): eaba0959
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://theconversation.com/our-quantum-internet-breakthrough-could-help-make-hacking-a-thing-of-the...
 
Description Hub researchers Aktas D. et al. gave a presentation on Quantum Networking at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researchers Aktas D. et al. gave a presentation on Quantum Networking at the 2020 virtual National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-...
 
Description Hub researchers and PhD students took part in a Catalyst Online Training workshop, delivered by QTEC (University of Bristol) and focused on commercialisation of quantum technologies (May 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researchers and PhD students took part in a Catalyst Online Training workshop, delivered by QTEC (University of Bristol) and focused on commercialisation of quantum technologies (May 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Igor Konieczniak gave a poster presentation (Increasing loss-budget of a free-space CVQKD system) at the 2020 QCrypt virtual international conference (13/08/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Koniczniak gave a poster presentation (Increasing loss-budget of a free-space CVQKD system) at the 2020 virtual QCrypt international conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/
 
Description Invited public lecture - Colbeck R (From spooky quantum phenomena to impossible quantum technologies), York Talks, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Roger Colbeck gave a public lecture on "From spooky quantum phenomena to impossible quantum technologies" as part of the University of York's York Talks series of presentations, 12 January 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nid2h0o7tlE
 
Description Invited talk - Nejabati R.: "Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, OCT 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator R. Nejabati gave an invited talk ("Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing") at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA, OCT 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Invited talk - R. Nejabati ("Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing") Virginia Tech, USA, OCT 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator R. Nejabati gave an invited talk ("Dynamic Quantum Network in Support of Quantum Internet from Security to Distributed Quantum Computing") at Virginia Tech, USA, OCT 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Ittoop Puthoor gave a poster presentation (Unambiguous elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication) at the 2020 virtual QCrypt international conference (13/08/20) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Puthoor have a poster presentation (Unambiguous elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication) at the 2020 virtual QCrypt international conference
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/
 
Description J. Sidhu - Contributed talk (Practical quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) as part of the Superconducting Amplifiers and Detectors session at APS Conference, March 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Practical quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) as part of the Superconducting Amplifiers and Detectors session at the APS March Meeting 2022 (online, 17 March 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR22/Session/T38.8
 
Description Jasminder Sidhu - online seminar (Practical advances in quantum information theory) for MIT, 4 February 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Jasminder Sidhu gave an online MIT seminar with the title "Practical advances in quantum information theory" for a group of fellow quantum researchers at MIT (04/02/2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Joint press release by Hub teams at the Universities of Strathclyde and Heriot-Watt on breakthrough related to nanomaterials and quantum encryption, June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researchers working alongside international collaborators on a Hub funded partnership resource project have achieved remarkable new results in quantum secure encryption over standard optical-fibre networks. The results were published in Nature Communications.
Led by Heriot-Watt and involving researchers from the Universities of Strathclyde, California and Leiden, the collaboration focused on the potential of 'quantum dots' - semiconductor nanostructures that behave like artificial atoms - to act as single-photon sources. The results of this new work overcome these limitations, achieving record key rates and distance results by converting the photons from a high-quality quantum dot to wavelengths used in low-loss telecom networks.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/press-release-quantum-nanomaterials-achieve-breakthrough-encryp...
 
Description Joshi S.K - Invited public lecture (Quantum Communications Networks) at the IET Coventry and Warwickshire 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Siddarth Joshi gave an invited public lecture on quantum communications networks at the IET Coventry and Warwickshire branch [online - 14 October 2021). There were lots of questions afterwards and the feedback was highly positive.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=7adda7&trk=c-45c266
 
Description Joshi SK gave a presentation on quantum communications at QTech 2020 - (02 - 04 November 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Joshi SK gave a presentation on quantum communications at QTech 2020 - (02 - 04 November 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://qtech2020.exordo.com/programme/presentation/305
 
Description Joshi, Organiser, ISSIQP Summer school in Integrated Quantum Photonics (University of Bristol, July 2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Hub researcher Siddarth Joshi was one of the organisers of the international ISSIQP Summer school in Integrated Quantum Photonics (University of Bristol, July 2023) for British and North American postgraduate students.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/qet-labs/events/issiqp/#:~:text=ISSIQP%20will%20present%20the%20fundamenta...
 
Description Joshi, participation in the "Quantumania: What it is and why you should care" outreach event organised by Engine Shed, Bristol on 9/10/2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Siddarth Joshi was a panellist and demonstrator at the "Quantumania: What it is and why you should care" outreach event organised by Engine Shed, Bristol on 9/10/2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/quantumania-what-it-is-and-why-you-should-care-tickets-714695101287
 
Description Ke Guo ; Thomas Hebdige ; Thomas Cope ; Roger Colbeck ; Christopher Chunnilall - poster presentation (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics), QCrypt 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ke Guo ; Thomas Hebdige ; Thomas Cope ; Roger Colbeck ; Christopher Chunnilall - poster presentation (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics), QCrypt 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Ke Guo presented a contributed talk (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (04/09/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Ke Guo presented a contributed talk (Assessment of a quantum random number generator based on photon number statistics) at the Photon 2020 virtual international conference (04/09/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30393&eventID=1255
 
Description Kent - invited talk "Quantum Foundations and Quantum Technology" to a group of Dutch business and thought leaders, organised by the Comenius Foundation, in March 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Kent - invited talk "Quantum Foundations and Quantum Technology" to a group of Dutch business and thought leaders, organised by the Comenius Foundation, in March 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Kent - public engagement lecture "The Closeting of Secrets", as part of the 2023 Darwin College Lecture Series, Cambridge (and online) January 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Kent - public engagement lecture "The Closeting of Secrets", as part of the 2023 Darwin College Lecture Series, Cambridge (and online) January 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/darwin-college-lecture-series
 
Description Kent, contributed talk at QPV 2023: Advances in quantum position verification" workshop, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 18-22 September 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Adrian Kent gave a talk on quantum position verification theory and implementation at the "QPV 2023: Advances in quantum position verification" workshop, which took place in Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on 18-22 September 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/48/
 
Description Kent, organiser, outreach conference "Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One day meeting" in collaboration with the Cambridge Philosophical Society, Cambridge, UK, 18th March 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigatgor Adrian Kent co-organized the one-day conference "Our Quantum World: How Quantum Technologies will Shape the Future - One day meeting" with the help of the Cambridge Philosophical Society, in Cambridge, UK on the 18th March 2023 This was a conference for the general public with hundreds of participants. There was a set of highly recognized speakers: Professor Jian-Wei Pan, Professor Mete Atatüre, Harry Buhrman, Giuseppe Carleo and Barbara Terhal.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.cambridgephilosophicalsociety.org/events/event/our-quantum-future-one-day-meeting
 
Description Kent, outreach talk on quantum cryptography as part of the 2023 Darwin College Lecture Series, January 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Adrian Kent gave a talk, "The Closeting of Secrets", opening the 2023 Darwin College Lecture Series, in January 2023. These are normally attended by an audience of hundreds, and many more viewers online. Adrian Kent also wrote an article based on the lecture for the lecture series companion volume.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.darwin.cam.ac.uk/lectures/entry/the-closeting-of-secrets/
 
Description Khalid - invited talk at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Secure and Efficient Post-Quantum Cryptography in Hardware and Software on the April 10 to April 13, 2023 at Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik in Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ayesha Khalid invited as a speaker at the Dagstuhl Seminar on Secure and Efficient Post-Quantum Cryptography in Hardware and Software on the April 10 to April 13, 2023 at Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik in Germany
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Khalid et al - Experimental Integration of QKD and Post-Quantum Cryptography in a Hybrid Quantum-Safe Cryptosystem. Contributed talk at the 9th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography workshop at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis from 13-15 February 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Ayesha Khalid, Ciara Rafferty and Maire O'Neill: Muckle++: Experimental Integration of QKD and Post-Quantum Cryptography in a Hybrid Quantum-Safe Cryptosystem. Contributed talk at the 9th ETSI/IQC Quantum Safe Cryptography workshop at ETSI Headquarters in Sophia Antipolis from 13-15 February 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.etsi.org/events/2117-2023-02-9th-etsi-iqc-quantum-safe-cryptography-workshop
 
Description Khalid et al - Tutorial ("Efficient Cryptography on Reconfigurable Hardware") at the 32nd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), August '22, Belfast, UK 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact A Khalid, E. Kavun, F. Regazzoni, gave a Tutorial "Efficient Cryptography on Reconfigurable Hardware" in the 32nd International Conference on Field-Programmable Logic and Applications (FPL), August '22, Belfast, UK
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.fpl.org/
 
Description Khalid, contributed talk, ETSI/IQC workshop, February 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Ayesha Khalid presented research on Muckle++ at the ETSI/IQC workshop in February 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.etsi.org/events/2117-2023-02-9th-etsi-iqc-quantum-safe-cryptography-workshop
 
Description Khalid, participation in expert workshop on the infrastructure needs for scaling-up the UK quantum sector over the next decade, 27th September, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Khalid was invited to the RAEng organized expert workshop exploring the infrastructure needs for scaling-up the UK quantum sector over the next decade on 27th September, 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://raeng.org.uk/quantum-infrastructure-review
 
Description Khalid, presentations at the SPRITE+ community conference on 28-29 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Khalid gave talks at the SPRITE+ community conference on 28-29 June 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://spritehub.org/sprite-conference-belfast-28-29-june/
 
Description Konieczniak I. (with Kumar R. & Spiller T.), Poster Presentation (Building A Two-mode Squeezed Vacuum Source for Quantum Communications) at QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Igor Konieczniak gave an online poster presentation (Building A Two-mode Squeezed Vacuum Source for Quantum Communications) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Kumar R. et al., Poster presentation (" QKD attack rating: prioritizing is the key to practical security") at the SPIE Quantum Technologies 2022 international conference, Strasbourg, France, 3-7 April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Kumar R., Mazzoncini F., Qin H., and Alléaume R. prepared a poster on "QKD attack rating: prioritizing is the key to practical security" which was presented buy Mazzoncini at the SPIE Quantum Technologies 2022 in Strasbourg, France, on 3-7 April 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://spie.org/EPE/conferencedetails/quantum-technologies?SSO=1
 
Description Kumar R. gave a presentation on "Satellite QKD Ground-Based Receivers" during the 2020 virtual international National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub PDRA Rupesh Kumar gave a presentation on "Satellite QKD Ground-Based Receivers" during the 2020 virtual international National Quantum Technologies Showcase (06/11/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://web-eur.cvent.com/event/e042ae20-0da6-425a-bd9d-d62e517503c4/websitePage:645d57e4-75eb-4769-...
 
Description Morozov D - contributed talk (Development of mid-infrared arrays of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors) at Workshop on low temperature electronics, WOLTE15, Matera Italy 7/6/22 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact D Morozov (& RH Hadfield) gave a contributed talk (Development of mid-infrared arrays of superconducting nanowire single-photon detectors) at Workshop on low temperature electronics, WOLTE15, Matera Italy 7/6/22
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Mortzou G - invited outreach talk on Quantum City initiative during the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub project manager gave a talk on the Quantum City public engagement initiative during the Quantum Technologies for Fundamental Physics Engagement Event, Warwick, 3 February 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ukri.org/events/quantum-technologies-for-fundamental-physics-engagement-event/
 
Description Naomi Solomons, poster presentation at Q-Turn 2020 (23/11/2020- 27/11/2020) (Virtual): Poster P1.7 "Scalable authentication in a quantum network". 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Naomi Solomons, poster presentation at Q-Turn 2020 (23/11/2020- 27/11/2020) (Virtual): Poster P1.7 "Scalable authentication in a quantum network".
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://drive.google.com/file/d/1mgi8_zYgQhrCkVSEDadwZ0mRNqYiJtmN/view
 
Description Nejabati R - contributed talk "Quantum Data centre :, Inside Quantum Technology The Hague conference, Feb 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact R. Nejabati gave a contribute talk "Quantum Data centre :, Inside Quantum Technology The Hague conference, Feb 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://quantum-internet.team/event/inside-quantum-technology-iqt-2022/
 
Description Nejabati R. - contributed talk (Dynamic and autonomous quantum entanglement network) at the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Reza Nejabati talked about the work of the Hub on "Dynamic and autonomous quantum entanglement network" during the QNetworks 2022 international workshop which took place at Cambridge on 11-12 April 2022 as a hybrid event (in person and with virtual participants).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantum...
 
Description Nejabati has organised a "Security Solutions Enabled by Physics in Fiber" workshop at the ACP 2020 conference (Oct. 2020, Beijing, China) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Nejabati has organised a "Security Solutions Enabled by Physics in Fiber" workshop at the ACP 2020 conference (Oct. 2020, Beijing, China)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.acpconf.org/Home/Details?M_Id=Meeting-20200421-MBL2HU4S&N_Id=News-20200617-LX9YXIWO#3
 
Description Nejabati, Contributed talk: "Building a Dynamic Quantum Network: Use Cases and Challenges from Security to Scalable Quantum Computing", IEEE Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2023, San Diego USA 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigators Reza Nejabati gave a contributed talk ("Building a Dynamic Quantum Network: Use Cases and Challenges from Security to Scalable Quantum Computing") at the IEEE Optical Fiber Communication Conference and Exhibition (OFC) 2023, San Diego USA
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Nejabati, Invited talk, "BUILDING A SCALABLE AND DYNAMIC QUANTUM NETWORK," May 2023, Q2B23, Paris, France 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub investigator Reza Nejabati gave an invited talk ("BUILDING A SCALABLE AND DYNAMIC QUANTUM NETWORK") at the May 2023, Q2B23, Paris, France
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://q2b.qcware.com/2023-conferences/paris/videos/
 
Description Nejabati, Public talk and tutorial on quantum security and networks, IET, Swindon , May 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub investigator, Reza Nejabati, gave a public talk and tutorial on quantum security and networks, IET, Swindon , May 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://localevents.theiet.org/register.php?event=e78344
 
Description Nejabati, invited talk, "Role of Quantum Technologies in 6G" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Reza Nejabati gave an invited talk with the title "Role of Quantum Technologies in 6G" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/events/2023/smart-2023-conference.html
 
Description O'Connor et al - contributed talk ( 'Better Security Estimates for Approximate, IoT-Friendly R-LWE Cryptosystems') at the IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS) 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Ruth O'Connor, Ayesha Khalid, Maire O'Neill, Weiqiang Liu, 'Better Security Estimates for Approximate, IoT-Friendly R-LWE Cryptosystems'. The IEEE Asia Pacific Conference on Circuits and Systems (APCCAS) 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL http://www.apccas2022.org/
 
Description O. Alia et al. poster presentation ("Wavelengths assignment of entangled photons pairs for quantum networks") at the Quantum 2020 Virtual Conference. October 2020. Poster Reference No. 31136. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact O. Alia et al (E. Hugues-Salas, R. Stange Tessinari, R. Wang, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati and D.Simeonidou) gave a poster pressentation ("Wavelengths assignment of entangled photons pairs for quantum networks") at the Quantum 2020 Virtual Conference. October 2020. Poster Reference No. 31136.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Oi - invited departmental seminar at Warwick University on Space Quantum Science and Technology, 20th May 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Oi - invited departmental seminar at Warwick University on Space Quantum Science and Technology, 20th May 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oi D - Airbus Briefing on Space Quantum Internet (9 February 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a briefing on Space Quantum Internet for company Airbus (9 February 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oi D - Internal Strathclyde Briefing to the Space Strategy Cluster on Space Quantum Technologies (6 April 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi participated in an internal University of Strathclyde briefing to the Space Strategy Cluster on Space Quantum Technologies (6 April 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oi D - invited talk ('How to fast-track the quantum internet') at the Italian Space Agency meeting (Matera, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited talk ('How to fast-track the quantum internet') at the Italian Space Agency meeting (Matera, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana) June 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oi D - Contributed talk ('Precision bounds on simultaneous quantum estimation theory') at Institute of Physics Singapore Meeting (Singapore) September 28-30 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contributed talk at Institute of Physics Singapore Meeting (Singapore) September 28-30 2022, 'Precision bounds on simultaneous quantum estimation theory' (talk)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ipsmeeting.org/
 
Description Oi D - Contributed talk (Quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at low powers ) at American Physical Society March Meeting (Chicago, USA) March 14-18 2022, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contributed talk (Quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at low powers ) at American Physical Society March Meeting (Chicago, USA) March 14-18 2022,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.aps.org/meetings/meeting.cfm?name=MAR22
 
Description Oi D - contributed talk (Key generation analysis for satellite quantum key distribution) at the SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contributed talk (Key generation analysis for satellite quantum key distribution) at the SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://optics.org/events/2021/909
 
Description Oi D - contributed talk (Tight bounds on the simultaneous estimation of incompatible parameters) at the Quantum Optics X (Torún, Poland) August 30 - September 3 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Oi gave a contributed talk (Tight bounds on the simultaneous estimation of incompatible parameters) at the Quantum Optics X (Torún, Poland) August 30 - September 3 2021,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://quantumoptics.faj.org.pl
 
Description Oi D - presentation to the Washington DC Quantum Computing Meetup, 28th August 2022 on the Space Quantum Internet 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub investigator Danie Oi gave a presentation to the Washington DC Quantum Computing Meetup, 28th August 2022 on the Space Quantum Internet
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oi D et al - poster presentation (Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution) at Pasadena, USA March 7-11 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Oi D et al. gave a poster presentation (Finite key effects in satellite quantum key distribution) at Pasadena, USA March 7-11 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://web.cvent.com/event/8adf8248-432b-499c-91e2-63b83ba3f69e/summary
 
Description Oi D. - Contributed talk ('Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD') at QTX-6 conference for quantum technologies on small satellites (Singapore) September 27-27 2022, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave a contibuted talk 'Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD' at QTX-6 conference for quantum technologies on small satellites (Singapore) September 27-27 2022,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://qtx.quantumlah.org/
 
Description Oi D. - Invited talk ('Quantum networks for sensing, communication, and computation' ) at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) November 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited talk ('Quantum networks for sensing, communication, and computation' ) at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) November 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oi D. - invited seminar ( 'Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD") at Centre for Quantum Technologies International Seminar Series (Singapore) September 2022,. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave an invited seminar ( 'Finite Key Effects and Parameter Optimisation for Satellite QKD") at Centre for Quantum Technologies International Seminar Series (Singapore) September 2022,.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Oi, David Elder Lecture (public talk), Glasgow Science Centre, 22/2/2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniei Oi gave a public talk, the David Elder Lecture at the Glasgow Science Centre, which was also livestreamed online/on 22/2/2023. The talk was an introduction to quantum communications.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.youtube.com/live/nJsJNLfc8JE?si=1sjnD6gIHWqbFW_7
 
Description Oi, Interview by Tech Monitor 5/6/2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi was interviewed by Tech Monitor on 5/6/2023 on the topic of quantum encryption.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://techmonitor.ai/hardware/quantum/quantum-encryption-seeks-its-first-and-final-frontier
 
Description Oi, Interview with That's TV Scotland, 27/6/2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi was interviewed by That's TV Scotland, 27/6/2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Oi, online public talk for Zen4Quantum, 8/4/2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Daniel Oi gave an outline outreach talk on quantum communications for Zen4Quantum, on 8/4/2023. Zen4Quantum is a community for the curious minds in the emerging quantum technology space.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.meetup.com/zen4quantum/
 
Description Oi, organiser for International Network in Space Quantum Network (INSQT) Workshop 2.1, RAL Space, Harwell 22-23/5/2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Oi was one of the main organisers for the International Network in Space Quantum Network (INSQT) Workshop 2.1, RAL Space, Harwell 22-23/5/2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.insqt.ac.uk/insqt-workshops/workshop-2-ral-space-application-guidance/
 
Description Oi, organiser for the International Network on Space Quantum Technologies Workshop 3, 30 August - 1 September 2023, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Strathclyde and Hub investigator Oi are the main organisers for the International Network on Space Quantum Technologies Workshop 3 on the Space Quantum Internet. The third workshop took place on 30 August - 1 September 2023 and was hosted at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.insqt.ac.uk/insqt-workshops/workshop-3-space-quantum-internet/
 
Description Oliveira et al - Contributed talk "Demonstration of a Resilient and Quantum-Secured Time-Shared Optical Network with Multi-Level Programmability," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact R. D. Oliveira, E. Arabul, R. Wang, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati and D. Simeonidou, "Demonstration of a Resilient and Quantum-Secured Time-Shared Optical Network with Multi-Level Programmability," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-3.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9748318
 
Description Oliveira, invited talk, "QKD and FPGAs protecting the 5G O-RAN fronthaul" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Romerson Oliveira gave an invited talk with the title "QKD and FPGAs protecting the 5G O-RAN fronthaul" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/events/2023/smart-2023-conference.html
 
Description Oral presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García, ("Fichas cuánticas sin memorias cuánticas: hacia una demostración experimental". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Virtual presentation delivered to the Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, September 30, 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Oral presentation by Damián Pitalúa-García, ("Fichas cuánticas sin memorias cuánticas: hacia una demostración experimental". Work in collaboration with Adrian Kent, David Lowndes and John Rarity). Virtual presentation delivered to the Institute of Physics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, September 30, 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Organisation of international (UK/Canada) summer school on quantum technologies, August 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact The Hub co-authored a proposal with the other three national Quantum Technologies Hubs for an international summer school for 60 of the most talented postgraduate students in quantum from the UK and Canada. The team was led by Professor Miles Padgett at the University of Glasgow and funding was secured from the EPSRC for the School. The International Summer School in Quantum Technologies (ISSQT 2023), took place at the University of Birmingham campus (1-10 August) for the benefit of 60 PhD students from the UK and Canada, and was hugely successful with very complimentary feedback received by the students. Co-investigator Siddarth Joshi lectured at the School focusing on the work of the Hub in quantum communications. The idea is that this will constitute the first such residential event in a series of summer schools in quantum technologies alternating between the UK and Canada for students of the two countries.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.ukri.org/news/uk-quantum-summer-schools-launched-will-build-international-links/
 
Description Outreach - Imad Faruque: Pint of Science talk 24 May 2023 ("Quantum Photonic Interconnects.") 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub researcher Imad Faruque gave a public engagement talk on the work of the Hub as part of the 2023 Pint of Science outreach activities at Bristol (May 2023)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2023/may/pint-of-science-2023.html#:~:text=Bristol%20will%20host%2015...
 
Description Panel discussions as part of the Careers in Quantum 2023 job fair (Bristol, 2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Hub investigator Siddarth Joshi organised panel discussions on "Future of Quantum Technologies" for 100 participants as part of the Careers in Quantum 2023 job fair, organised by the University of Bristol and partly sponsored by the Quantum Communications Hub project.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Papanastasiou P - contributed talk: "Continuous-variables quantum key distribution in a multi-way setting", SPIE Photonics for Quantum 2022, 6-9 June 2022, Rochester, NY, United States 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher P. Papanastasiou gave a contributed talk: "Continuous-variables quantum key distribution in a multi-way setting", SPIE Photonics for Quantum 2022, 6-9 June 2022, Rochester, NY, United States
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Participation in New Scientist Live North science festival, Manchester, 11-14 March 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The Quantum Communications Hub organised and participated in the Quantum City exhibition stand at the first ever New Scientist Live North science festival outreach event in Manchester (11-14 March 2022). Alongside partners NPL and the University of Nottingham, Hub researchers from the University of Sheffield took part showcasing three exhibits explaining how light is used in quantum mechanics to carry secure information. Friday was a School only day and the Hub team engaged with 100s of school children. In total more than 2000 people visited the Quantum City stand.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/quantum-city-exhibits-at-new-scientist-live-manchester/?return=...
 
Description Participation in York Festival of Ideas outreach event, York, 12 June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The York Hub team took part in the York Festival of Ideas outreach day on 12 June 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/public-discovers-more-about-communicating-with-quantum-at-york-...
 
Description Participation in exhibition (National Quantum Technologies Showcase 2022), London, November 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Various research teams from across the Quantum Communications Hub programme of work (quantum networking - University of Bristol; handheld consumer QKD - University of Oxford; satellite quantum communications - University of Strathclyde; detectors and sources - Heriot-Watt University) plus the Hub Director, Hub Business Director and Hub Project Manager took part in the 2022 National Quantum Technologies Showcase on 11/11/2022 (QEII exhibition centre, London). The event is the flagship engagement event organised by the UK National Quantum technologies Showase, aimed at professional practioners, government officials, and industry representatives. The 2022 event was attended by more than 1000 delegates from the UK and abroad (US, Canada, Singapore, Australia, Japan, EU countries). The Hub teams had the opportunity to showcase progress across many of their deliverables and engage with parties interested in potential collaborations
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/hub-developed-quantum-technologies-demonstrated-at-this-years-n...
 
Description Participation in the 2023 National Quantum Technologies Showcase, London, November 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Members of the Quantum Communications Hub project team from the Universities of Bristol, York and from RAL Space took part in the 2023 National Quantum Technologies Showcase, the flagship UK quantum community event. The event took place at the Business Design Centre in London on November 2nd. The Hub participated with two exhibition stands - a Hub stand showcasing next generation quantum networking technologies (including quantum entanglement networking) and a joint stand with STFC/RAL Space showcasing nanosatellite models for the UK's two quantum space missions: Speqtre (the UK/Singapore joint mission ran in the UK by RAL Space) and SPOQC, the Hub's own quantum satellite mission. The event was attended by over 1000 people and many of the visitors attended the Hub stand(s) asking for more information about our work, while as a result of this activity there were also follow-up meetings with a number of organisations, including the UKTIN.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/uk-national-quantum-technologies-showcase-2023/
 
Description Paul - collaborative meetings with Quantum Technology leads from the US Department of Defence and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group. (Nov. 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Douglas Paul participated in the AUKUS Quantum PNT meetings at Porton Down in November 2022 with the Quantum Technology leads from the US Department of Defence and the Australian Defence Science and Technology Group.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Paul - invited talk ("A Guide to the Benefits of Quantum Sensors") which included Ge on Si SPADs to the MOD Defence Technology and Innovation Board on the 6th December 2022. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Prof Douglas Paul gave a presentation on "A Guide to the Benefits of Quantum Sensors" which included Ge on Si SPADs to the MOD Defence Technology and Innovation Board on the 6th December 2022. This committee includes the MOD 2nd Permanent Under Secretary, MOD Chief Scientific Advisor, 2*s from all the Commands, Head of the Defence Science Expert Committee and the Head of MOD Defence Science and Technology.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Peide Zhang presented a poster (Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering) at BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Peide Zhang presented a poster (Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering) at BQIT2020 conference (27/04/2020, online)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Peide Zhang, Poster presentation "Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering for CubeSat QKD) at QCrypt 2020 conference (10/08/2020, online) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Peide Zhang gave a poster presentation "Timing and Noise Tolerant Absolute Pulse Numbering for CubeSat QKD) highlighting the work of the Hub at QCrypt 2020 conference (10/08/2020, online)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/
 
Description Perez-Delgado, New Scientist interview on quantum computing, June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Hub investigator Carlos A. Perez-Delgado was interviewed by the New Scientist for an article appearing on the 24th of June 2023 edition, page 10.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.newscientist.com/article/2379058-quantum-computers-could-slash-the-energy-use-of-cryptoc...
 
Description Phillips et al - Contributed talk (Towards a >1 GHz Quantum Dot Single Photon Source at 1550 nm) at Northern Quantum Meeting 2022, 16th September, University of Manchester 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Catherine Phillips, Max Godsland, Andrew Foster, Alistair Brash, René Dost, Nasser Babazadeh, Elisa Sala, Nick Martin, Luke Wilson, Jon Heffernan, Maurice Skolnick and Mark Fox. Contributed talk (Towards a >1 GHz Quantum Dot Single Photon Source at 1550 nm) at Northern Quantum Meeting 2022, 16th September, University of Manchester
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Phillips et al - contributed talk (Towards a 10 GHz Single Photon Source at 1550 nm using Photonic Crystal Cavities ) at UK Semiconductors Conference 2022, 6-7 July, Sheffield 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Catherine Phillips, . Godsland, A. Foster, A. Brash, R. Dost, N. Babazadeh, E. Sala, N. Martin, L. Wilson, J. Heffernan, M. S. Skolnick, A. M. Fox, contributed talk (Towards a 10 GHz Single Photon Source at 1550 nm using Photonic Crystal Cavities ) at UK Semiconductors Conference 2022, 6-7 July, Sheffield.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://uksemiconductors.com
 
Description Phillips et al, Contributed talk (Towards a >1 GHz Single Photon Source at 1550 nm using Photonic Crystal Cavities) at 2. IOP Quantum Dot Day in Manchester 7th-8th September 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Catherine Phillips gave a contributed talk at the IOP Quantum Dot Day in Manchester, 7th-8th September 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Phillips et al, Contributed talk (Towards a >1 GHz Single Photon Source at Telecommunication Wavelengths using Photonic Crystal Cavities) at 3. NOEKS-16: The International Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors, September 17-20, 2023, Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Catherine Phillips gave a contribute talk at NOEKS-16: The International Conference on Nonlinear Optics and Excitation Kinetics in Semiconductors, September 17-20, 2023, Chiemsee, Bavaria, Germany
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.mcqst.de/noeks16/
 
Description Phillips et al, contributed talk (Towards a 10 GHz Single Photon Source at 1550 nm using Photonic Crystal Cavities ) at UK Semiconductors Conference, Sheffield, 12-13 July 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Phillips and her colleagues gave a contributed talk (Towards a 10 GHz Single Photon Source at 1550 nm using Photonic Crystal Cavities) at the UK Semiconductors Conference, Sheffield, 12-13 July 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.nationalepitaxyfacility.co.uk/news-and-events/uk-semiconductors-conference-12-13-july-20...
 
Description Phillips et al, poster presentation at Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS 18), Lecce, Italy 12-16 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Catherine Phillips, Alistair Brash, Max Godsland, Andrew Foster, René Dost, Nasser Babazadeh, Elisa Sala, Nick Martin, Luke Wilson, Jon Heffernan, Maurice Skolnick, Mark Fox, Poster presentation (Towards a > 1 GHz Single Photon Source at telecommunication wavelengths using photonic crystal cavities) at Optics of Excitons in Confined Systems (OECS 18), Lecce, Italy 12-16 June 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://oecs18.nanotec.cnr.it/
 
Description Phllips, poster presentation at the inaugural Materials for Quantum Technology Horizon Scanning UK Conference for Early Career Researchers, Cambridge, 20-21 November 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Catherine Phllips attended and presented a poster at the inaugural Materials for Quantum Technology Horizon Scanning UK Conference for Early Career Researchers held at the University of Cambridge on 20-21 November 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Pickston - Contributed talk ("Quantum Networking Advantage With Graph States") Optica Quantum 2.0 conference, Boston, June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Alex Pickston gave a contributed talk ("Quantum Networking Advantage With Graph States") Optica Quantum 2.0 conference, Boston, June 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.optica.org/en-us/events/meeting_archives/2022/quantum/
 
Description Pirandola - Invited Seminar on "Bounds for quantum communications", Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy (30/5/2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator S. Pirandola gave an invited seminar on "Bounds for quantum communications", Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Florence, Italy (30/5/2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Pitalua-Garcia - contributed talk ( "Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at Single Photon Workshop 2022, Seoul, South Korea, 31 October - 4 November 2022, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pitalua-Garcia - contributed talk ( "Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at Single Photon Workshop 2022, Seoul, South Korea, 31 October - 4 November 2022,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://platform.qureca.com/event/single-photon-workshop-spw-2022/
 
Description Pitalúa-García - contributed talk ("Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at QCRYPT 2022, 29 August - 2 September, 2022, Taipei, Taiwan, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Pitalúa-García gave an online talk ("Multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography") at QCRYPT 2022, 29 August - 2 September, 2022, Taipei, Taiwan,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.qcrypt.net/
 
Description Pitalúa-García, poster presentation at the "QPV 2023: Advances in quantum position verification" workshop, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, 18-22 September 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Damián Pitalúa-García gave a poster presentation on multiphoton and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography (M. Bozzio et al., PRX Quantum 2, 030338, 2021) in the workshop "QPV 2023: Advances in quantum position verification", which took place in Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada on 18-22 September 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://events.perimeterinstitute.ca/event/48/
 
Description Poster presentation (Bhavsar R; Ragy S; Colbeck R): Improved device-independent randomness expansion rates from tight bounds on the two sided randomness using CHSH tests, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bhavsar et al. gave an online poster presentation (Improved device-independent randomness expansion rates from tight bounds on the two sided randomness using CHSH tests) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/
 
Description Poster presentation (Bozzio M; Cavailles A; Diamanti E; Kent A; Pitalúa-García D): Multi-photon and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Bozzio et al,. gave an online poster presentation (Multi-photon and side-channel attacks in mistrustful quantum cryptography) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Poster presentation (Dada A; Kaniewski J; Gawith C; Lavery M; Hadfield RH; Faccio D; Clerici M): Near-maximal Polarization Entanglement for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution at 2.1 µm, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Dada et al. gave an online poster presentation (Near-maximal Polarization Entanglement for Device-Independent Quantum Key Distribution at 2.1 µm) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Poster presentation (Jöhlinger F, Rosenfeld L, Semenenko H, Aktas D, & Rarity J.): Resilient Chip-Scale QKD with Integrated Hacking Prevention, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Jöhlinger F et al. gave an online poster presentation (Resilient Chip-Scale QKD with Integrated Hacking Prevention) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Poster presentation (Lupo C): Resource-efficient energy test and parameter estimation in continuous-variable quantum key distribution, Crypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Cosmo Lupo gave an online poster presentation (Resource-efficient energy test and parameter estimation in continuous-variable quantum key distribution) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/
 
Description Poster presentation (Morrison CL, Graffitti F, Xian Koong Z., Stoltz NG; Pousa TG, Bouwmeester D; Mazzarella L; Jeffers J; Oi DKL; Fedrizzi A; Gerardot BD): Quantum key distribution with a bright source of telecom single photons based on quantum frequency conversion, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Morrison (et al.) gave an online poster presentation (Quantum key distribution with a bright source of telecom single photons based on quantum frequency conversion) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Poster presentation (Reichmuth D; Puthoor IV; Wallden P; Andersson E): A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Reichmuth et al. gave an online poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at the 2021 QCrypt international conference which took place online (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/
 
Description Poster presentation (Reichmuth D; Puthoor IV; Wallden P; Andersson E): Imperfect quantum oblivious transfer with one-sided security, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Reichmuth et al. gave an online poster presentation (Imperfect quantum oblivious transfer with one-sided security) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Poster presentation (Sidhu JS; Izumi S; Neergaard-Nielsen JS; Lupo C; Andersen UL): Quantum Receiver for Phase-Shift Keying at the Single-Photon Level, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Sidhu et al. gave an online poster presentation (Quantum Receiver for Phase-Shift Keying at the Single-Photon Level) at the QCrypt 2021 international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster1/
 
Description Poster presentation - - Amanda Weerasinghe; Muataz Alhussein; He Li; Adrian Wonfor and Richard Penty, 'Experimental demonstration of practical high speed Gaussian coherent state continuous variable quantum key distribution with real-time parameter monitoring and key distillation', Qcrypt 2022, Aug 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Amanda Weerasinghe; Muataz Alhussein; He Li; Adrian Wonfor and Richard Penty, 'Experimental demonstration of practical high speed Gaussian coherent state continuous variable quantum key distribution with real-time parameter monitoring and key distillation', Qcrypt 2022, Aug 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Poster presentation - Albosh S, Spiller T, Chunnilall C. Actively-Stabilised Variable Asymmetry Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for QKD Device Characterisation, QCrypt 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Sophie Albosh gave an online poster presentation (Actively-Stabilised Variable-Asymmetry Mach-Zehnder Interferometer for QKD Device Characterisation) at the 2021 QCrypt international conference which took place virtually (23-27 August 2021).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://2021.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Poster presentation - O. Alia, A. Schreier, R. Wang, S. Bahrani, R. Singh, G. Faulkner, J. Rarity, D. O'Brien, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals", ECOC 202, Switzerland 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact O. Alia, A. Schreier, R. Wang, S. Bahrani, R. Singh, G. Faulkner, J. Rarity, D. O'Brien, G. T. Kanellos, R. Nejabati, and D. Simeonidou, "DV-QKD Coexistence With 1.6 Terabit/s Classical Channels in Free Space Using Fiber-Wireless-Fiber Terminals," in European Conference on Optical Communication (ECOC) 2022, J. Leuthold, C. Harder, B. Offrein, and H. Limberger, eds., Technical Digest Series (Optica Publishing Group, 2022), paper Tu5.67. Abstract for poster presentation delivered at European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication 2022, European Conference and Exhibition on Optical Communication 2022
Basel Switzerland, 18-22 September 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ecoc2022.org/index.php
 
Description Poster presented by Damián Pitalúa-García, "One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer". Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Poster presented by Damián Pitalúa-García, "One-out-of-m spacetime constrained oblivious transfer". Quantum Frontiers and Fundamentals, Bangalore, India, 13-18 January 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.rri.res.in/~qff2020/
 
Description Postgraduate student workshop during the Careers in Quantum 2023 job fair, Bristol, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Postgraduate students
Results and Impact Hub investigator Siddarth Joshi designed and delivered a bespoke 3-hour long workshop on "Ethical mapping for Quantum Technologies Research" for some 45 postgraduate students on 28th April 2023, as part of the Careers in Quantum 2023 job fair, which the Quantum Communications Hub project provided a partial sponsorship for. The aim of this bespoke workshop was to help participants to map uses, limitations and interdependence of various Quantum Technologies to envision the impact of the Quantum revolution on the lines of EPSRC AREA framework.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Press release on Hub funded partnership resource project in partnership with euNetworks, October 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Researchers from The University of York in collaboration with the Quantum Communications Hub and euNetworks Fiber UK Limited ("euNetworks") have for the first time successfully demonstrated that quantum communication is possible over the long geographical distance that separates England from Ireland. The team, led by Professor Marco Lucamarini from the University of York, ran a series of experiments using bandwidth infrastructure provider euNetworks' subsea cable, named Rockabill. This network is one of the newest commercial optical fibre systems in operation and connects Ireland to England in the United Kingdom, running 224 kilometres between Portrane and Southport cable landing stations. Until now, no quantum link has ever been established between the two countries, nor on a span stretching this length on a subsea fibre optic cable.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/for-the-first-time-researchers-successfully-demonstrate-over-eu...
 
Description Press release on new paper on satellite communications, November 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Press release issued jointly with the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore on co-authored paper on "Revisiting security assumptions in satellite-based quantum communications", November 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/revisiting-security-assumptions-in-satellite-based-quantum-comm...
 
Description Press release on the Hub's Optical Ground Station, January 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The Hub through one of its partner Universities (Heriot-Watt) published a press release on 24 January 2024 on the Heriot-Watt campus being selected as the location for the Hub's optical ground station construction.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/press-release-state-of-the-art-telescope-paves-way-for-space-te...
 
Description Press release on the new iteration of the originally Hub funded Quantum Ambassadors programme, April 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Press release jointly issued with the National STEM Learning Centre on new funding secured for the Hub established Quantum Ambassadors programme. The new funding will be supplied by DSIT and it will be on a pilot basis to implement the rollout of the programme across schools in the whole of the UK. The Hub had a number of meetings with DSIT members focused on skills and training for next generations of quantum technologists and presented evidence on the efficiency of the programme in bringing quantum into the classroom.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/news/press-release-funding-for-specialist-stem-ambassadors-scheme-ai...
 
Description Puthoor I. - contributed talk "Unambiguous quantum state elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication" at the virtual Quantum 2020 conference (20/10/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Puthoor I. gave a contributed talk "Unambiguous quantum state elimination of pairs of quantum states for quantum communication" at the virtual Quantum 2020 conference (20/10/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30820&eventID=1552
 
Description QSIUM X QUANTUM COMMUNICATIONS HUB OUTREACH EVENT 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact The Quantum Communications Hub team partnered with QSium - a student-led initiative that aims to democratise education in quantum computing - to deliver an outreach event on basics principles around quantum communications. The aim was to inspire current secondary school students interested in quantum to pursue a career in the field by finding out more about how to make this a reality. The event was delivered online on 23 August 2023 and registration was free. The talks were tailored for A level students with a strong background in physics and/or maths, though anyone with an interest in the area was welcome to attend. The event comprised talks by: the Hub Director, Professor Tim Spiller (University of York), on the basic principles of quantum communications and the work of the Hub; Hub co-investigator, Dr Ayesha Khalid (Queen's University Belfast), on post-quantum cryptography; Hub research associate, Dr Jasminder Sidhu (University of Strathclyde), on networked quantum technologies
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/qsium-x-quantum-communications-hub-outreach-event/?return=http...
 
Description Quantum in the Summer, Bristol UK, July, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact The Bristol University Hub team helped organise and deliver lectures at the Quantum in the Summer outreach event which aimed to teach quantum concepts to A-level students in July 2023. The Hub partly sponsored the 2023 event which has been running successfully for a number of years now.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/qet-labs/outreach/quantum-summer/
 
Description Rafferty - public engagement lecture "Ciphers & Codes: past, present, future,", Queen's University Belfast, 24 June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Local
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact Rafferty - public engagement lecture "Ciphers & Codes: past, present, future,", Queen's University Belfast, 24 June 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Rafferty and other QUB colleagues have participated in the ETSI TC CYBER QSC WG (Quantum Safe Cryptography Working Group). 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rafferty and other QUB colleagues have participated in the ETSI TC CYBER QSC WG (Quantum Safe Cryptography Working Group).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.etsi.org/technologies/quantum-safe-cryptography#:~:text=The%20ETSI%20Cyber%20Quantum%20S...
 
Description Rafferty, talks at the SPRITE+ community conference on 28-29 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Rafferty gave talks at the SPRITE+ community conference on 28-29 June 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://spritehub.org/sprite-conference-belfast-28-29-june/
 
Description Reza Nejabati gave an invited talk about "Quantum network test-bed and use cases in Bristol", in Quantum Exchange institute in Chicago University, USA, Dec 2019 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Reza Nejabati gave an invited talk about "Quantum network test-bed and use cases in Bristol", in Quantum Exchange institute in Chicago University, USA, Dec 2019
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Reza Nejabati - Panelist in the Quantum Data Centers session at the 2022 Inside Quantum Technology - The Hague workshop, 21-23 February 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Reza Nejabati took part in an online panel discussion on Quantum Data Centres as part of the 2022 Inside Quantum Technology hybrid event (online and in-person) at The Hague, 21-23 February 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://iqtevent.com/thehague/#
 
Description Roger Colbeck gave a talk (Assurance of Quantum Random Number Generators) at the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub co-investigator presented the work of the Hub on "Assurance of Quantum Random Number Generators" as part of the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, which took place at Cambridge, in April 11-12, 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantum...
 
Description Roger Colbeck gave a tutorial on device-independence at the International Telecommunications Union Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology for Networks (FG-QIT4N), Jinan, China, December 2019. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Roger Colbeck gave a tutorial on device-independence at the International Telecommunications Union Focus Group on Quantum Information Technology for Networks (FG-QIT4N), Jinan, China, December 2019.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
 
Description Rui Wang - Contributed talk (A Dynamic Multi-Protocol Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network) as part of the Quantum Networking and Resiliency session at the 2022 OFC Conference, March 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rui Wang gave a contributed talk (A Dynamic Multi-Protocol Entanglement Distribution Quantum Network) as part of the Quantum Networking and Resiliency session at the 2022 OFC Conference, March 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/schedule/?day=Thursday#th3d.1
 
Description Rupesh Kumar, Poster Presentation (Improving the performance of CV-QKD with multi-mode signals) at the 2020 QCrypt international conference (11/08/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Kumar gave a poster presentation (Improving the performance of CV-QKD with multi-mode signals) at the 2020 QCrypt virtual international conference.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://2020.qcrypt.net/accepted-papers/
 
Description Sagar, Talk at the 6th Quantum Technology conference organized by the European Space Agency at Matera, Italy, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jaya Sagar gave a contributed talk at the 6th Quantum Technology conference organized by the European Space Agency at Matera, Italy.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://nikal.eventsair.com/6th-quantum-technology-conference/
 
Description Sagar, contribute talk at BQIT 2023 conference ("Compact Quantum Key Distribution module for Nanosatellites"), Bristol, 27th April 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jaya Sagar gave a contributed talk at the BQIT 2023 conference ("Compact Quantum Key Distribution module for Nanosatellites" ) at Bristol on 27th April 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Sagar, poster presentation "Quantum Communication Payload for Nanosatellites" in "Smart Internet Lab conference", Bristol, 28-29th June 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jaya Sagar gave a poster presentation titled "Quantum Communication Payload for Nanosatellites" in "Smart Internet Lab conference" University of Bristol, 28-29th June 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/events/2023/smart-2023-conference.html
 
Description Schreier A. - contributed talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at 2022 TOP Conference, London 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub research associate Andy Schreier gave a talk (The engineering of a handheld QKD system) at the Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics Conference, London, 24 February 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://topconference.com/timetable-2022/
 
Description Schreier, Contributed Talk at ECOC conference - "A Beam Steering Platform Enabling Handheld Low-Cost Quantum Key Distribution" 1 - 5 /10/2023, Glasgow UK. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Researcher Andy Schreier: gave a contributed talk ("A Beam Steering Platform Enabling Handheld Low-Cost Quantum Key Distribution") at the 2023 ECOC conference 1 - 5 /10/2023, Glasgow UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Series of online secondary school assemblies focusing on career pathways in quantum 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact The Quantum Communications Hub organised a series of online secondary schools assemblies in collaboration with the South East England STEM Learning Partnership. The assemblies were aimed at highlighting career pathways in the area of quantum technologies with different sessions dedicated on quantum communications, computing, sensing, metrology, imaging, PhDs etc. The Hub invited the other UK QT Hubs to take part alongside also NPL and the UCL Quantum CDT. The quantum comms session took place on 18 May 2022 and the Hub researchers involved were:
Dr Catherine Phillips at the UNiversity of Sheffield, Dr Ross Donaldson of Heriot-Watt University and Dr Jasminder Sidhu of the University of Strathclyde. Over 50 schools registered to attend the event and the online assembly was recorded and uploaded to YouTube to allow more students an opportunity to see it. The researchers' presentations (on what being a quantum researcher meant on a day-to-day basis) were followed by a live Q&A session.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://youtu.be/0LgkSdSvjIY
 
Description Siddarth Joshi gave a contributed talk (A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/20) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Joshi gave a contributed talk (A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network) at the virtual Photon 2020 international conference (03/09/20)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30393&eventID=1255
 
Description Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave a contributed talk "A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network"CLEO USA 2020 (Virtual, 10/05/2020 to 15/05/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave a contributed talk "A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network"CLEO USA 2020 (Virtual, 10/05/2020 to 15/05/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.osapublishing.org/abstract.cfm?uri=cleo_si-2020-STh4G.1&origin=search
 
Description Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave an invited talk ("A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network") at SPCOM 2020 (Virtual) 19/07/2020 to 24/07/2020, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Siddarth Koduru Joshi gave an invited talk ("A trusted-node-free eight-user metropolitan quantum communication network") at SPCOM 2020 (Virtual) 19/07/2020 to 24/07/2020,
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://ece.iisc.ac.in/~spcom/2020/thematic_workshop.html
 
Description Sidhu J - contributed talk (Near optimal quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single photon level) at Asian Quantum Information Science (Tokyo, Japan) September 1-4 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Near optimal quantum receivers for phase-shift keying at the single photon level) at Asian Quantum Information Science (Tokyo, Japan) September 1-4 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL http://aqis-conf.org/2021/
 
Description Sidhu J - invited seminar at the Quantum Information Theory meeting at MIT on February 28 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jasminder Sidhu gave an nvited seminar at the Quantum Information Theory meeting at MIT on February 28 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Sidhu J. - Contributed talk ('Modelling the performance of SatQKD missions' ) at International Network in Space Quantum Technologies workshop 1(Strathclyde, UK) August 3-5 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Sidhu J. - Contributed talk ('Modelling the performance of SatQKD missions' ) at International Network in Space Quantum Technologies workshop 1(Strathclyde, UK) August 3-5 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.insqt.ac.uk/insqt-workshops/workshop-1/
 
Description Sidhu et al - Contributed talk (Quantum receiver for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) at SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Quantum receiver for phase-shift keying at the single-photon level) at SPIE Photonex + Vacuum Expo (Glasgow, UK) September 28-30 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://optics.org/events/2021/909
 
Description Sidhu et al. - poster presentation (Linear optics and photodetection achieve near-optimal unambiguous coherent state discrimination) at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Jasminder Sidhu ; Michael Bullock ; Saikat Guha ; Cosmo Lupo - poster presentation (Linear optics and photodetection achieve near-optimal unambiguous coherent state discrimination) at QCrypt 2022 conference, Taipei
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.qcrypt.net/sessions/poster2/
 
Description Sidhu, Contributed talk at American Physical Society March meeting (Las Vegas, USA) March 5-10 2023, Linear optics and photodetection achieve near-optimal unambiguous coherent state discrimination 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk at American Physical Society March meeting (Las Vegas, USA) March 5-10 2023, Linear optics and photodetection achieve near-optimal unambiguous coherent state discrimination
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Sidhu, contributed talk (Global quantum networking for distributed technologies), at Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Oct 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Global quantum networking for distributed technologies), at Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) Oct 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Sidhu, contributed talk (How to model QKD measurements and secure key rates: implementing quantum networks) at SPIE.Photonex: Quantum Devices and Applications (Glasgow, UK) Oct 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (How to model QKD measurements and secure key rates: implementing quantum networks) at SPIE.Photonex: Quantum Devices and Applications (Glasgow, UK) Oct 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Sidhu, contributed talk (Modelling resource constraints on small satellite missions) at QTX7: Quantum Technologies on small satellites (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Nov 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jasminder Sidhu gave a contributed talk (Modelling resource constraints on small satellite missions) at the QTX7: Quantum Technologies on small satellites (Abu Dhabi, UAE) Nov 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.tii.ae/qtx-7-workshop-quantum-technologies-small-satellites
 
Description Sidhu, poster presentation at Quantum information Processing 2023 conference (Ghent, Belgium), 4-10 February 2023, Quantum receivers for near-optimal unambiguous decoding 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jasminder Sidhu gave a poster presentation at the Quantum information Processing 2023 conference (Ghent, Belgium), 4-10 February 2023, Quantum receivers for near-optimal unambiguous decoding
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Smith Charles, et al. "Simulation and design optimization of germanium-on-silicon single photon avalanche diodes" SPIE Photonics West (PW23O), USA (Jan. 2023) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Smith Charles, Jaroslaw Kirdoda, Derek Dumas, Conor Coughlan, Charlie McCarthy, Hannah Mowbray, Muhammad Mirza, Univ. of Glasgow ; Fiona Fleming, Xin Yi, Lisa Saalbach, Gerald Buller, Heriot-Watt Univ.; Douglas Paul, Ross Millar, Univ. of Glasgow, "Simulation and design optimization of germanium-on-silicon single photon avalanche diodes" SPIE Photonics West (PW23O), USA (Jan. 2023)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://spie.org/PW23O/conferencedetails/silicon-photonics
 
Description Spiller & Donaldson, interview on the potential of quantum secure communications from space for Capacity online magazine, May 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller and investigator Donaldson were interviewed by Guy Matthews for a Capacity online magazine article which was published under the title Sending security to the stars on 24 May 2023. Spiller and Donaldson talked about satellite quantum communications and the Hub's own space mission SPOQC.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.capacitymedia.com/article/2boinh31lr5r4e6hhq1og/feature/sending-security-to-the-stars
 
Description Spiller - Invited talk at Quantum Communciation Standards Workshop on 12 Oct 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Tim Spiller gave an invited talk on the work of the Hub during a Quantum Communication Standards Workshop,. jointly organised by
NPL, the Quantum Communications Hub, and the British Standards Insitute, on 12 Oct 2022 (online). The workshop brought together representatives of the UK quantum communications industry to agree the priorities for future standardisation.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/npl-quantum-communication-standards-workshop-tickets-411835971477
 
Description Spiller - invited panelist on UKRI Hubs & Programme Grants: recent progress in optical communications, photonic technologies, quantum communications and quantum computing workshop, TOP Conference, London 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller was part of a panel discussion during a workshop on UKRI Hubs & Programme Grants: recent progress in optical communications, photonic technologies, quantum communications and quantum computing at the Telecommunications, Optics and Photonics Conference, London 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://topconference.com/timetable-2022/
 
Description Spiller T - invited talk (Quantum Communications at All Distance Scales) at the 2022 National Quantum Technologies Showcase, London, 11 November 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller gave an invited presentation on the work of the Hub in front of a large audience of industry representatives. The showcase is the flagship event of the national quantum technologies programme aimed at fostering new collaborations and boosting the emerging quantum ecosystem in the UK.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/uk-national-quantum-technologies-showcase-2022/
 
Description Spiller T - invited talk (Quantum communications at all distance scales, but especially the largest ones) at RAL Space 18th Appleton Space Conference, Harwell Campus, 1 December 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Tim Spiller gave an invited talk (Quantum communications at all distance scales, but especially the largest ones) at RAL Space 18th Appleton Space Conference, Harwell Campus, 1 December 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.ralspace.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/18th-Appleton-Space-Conference.aspx
 
Description Spiller T - invited talk at quantum workshop at CUNY, New York, 16 May 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Spiller T - invited talk at quantum workshop at CUNY, New York, 16 May 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Spiller T - invited talk on the work of the Hub at Third Workshop for Quantum Repeaters and Networks August 19-21, 2022, in Chicago 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller gave an invited talk on the work of the Hub at Third Workshop for Quantum Repeaters and Networks August 19-21, 2022, in Chicago
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://chicagoquantum.org/wqrn3#:~:text=We%20are%20pleased%20to%20invite,August%2019%2D21%2C%202022...
 
Description Spiller T - participation by invitation in NPL's Quantum Industry Workshop, Westminster, London 24th January 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller was personally invited to participate in NPL's Quantum Industry Workshop, Westminster, London 24th January 2023. Participants debated issues such as:
• What are the barriers limiting your use of quantum technologies and how could they be better overcome with the support of NPL?
• What measurement capabilities do you need NPL to make available to enhance your quantum development plans over the next 2-5 years?
• What are the necessary test and evaluation facilities required to help your product innovation?
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Spiller T - participation in BEIS workshop to shape the upcoming National Quantum Strategy, London 21 April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller was personally invited to take part in BEIS workshop to shape the upcoming National Quantum Strategy, London 21 April 2022. The workshop explored the UK's strengths and weaknesses in quantum technologies research and articulate the upcoming research challenges that the National Quantum Technologies Programme (NQTP) should seek to address.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Spiller T - participation in Quantum Symposium, jointly organised by Digital Catapult and the National Quantum Computing Centre, London, 28 February 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Tim Spiller was personally invited to take part in the 'Quantum Symposium' in collaboration with the Digital Regulation Cooperation Forum and the National Quantum Computing Centre (NQCC) on Tuesday 28 February 2023. The event brought together industry players, academics and other professionals into conversation with the UK's digital regulators (Ofcom, Financial Conduct Authority, Competition and Markets Authority, and the Information Commissioner's Office) to understand how quantum technologies are evolving and to unpack some of the regulatory opportunities and challenges facing both firms and public authorities. The Symposium featured a number of sessions across a full day. The morning was opened by senior staff from DRCF regulators, followed by a keynote speech from the National Quantum Computing Centre and panels staffed by quantum technology firms and industry experts to unpack quantum technologies, their opportunities and risks, and what activities regulators should consider in more detail. This was an opportunity to contribute to the discussion around Quantum Technologies and be part of some of the UK's leading digital regulators efforts to understand the ecosystem, allowing us to implement responsive policy and ensure the UK is one the best destinations to innovate responsibly and scale in.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://digicat.secure.force.com/events/event/home/quantumsymposiumvirtual
 
Description Spiller T - participation in Roundtable discussion on the adoption and commercialisation of quantum technologies, organised by the University of Cambridge and the Quantum Computing and Simulation (QCS) Hub, London, 20 June 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller was personally invited to take part in Roundtable discussion on the adoption and commercialisation of quantum technologies, organised by the University of Cambridge and the Quantum Computing and Simulation (QCS) Hub, London, 20 June 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Spiller T. - Participation in panel discussion "Commercialisation of Quantum Technology" during 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (23/09/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller took part in panel discussion "Commercialisation of Quantum Technology" during 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (23/09/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/conference-proceedings-of-spie/11573/1157301/Commercialisation-of...
 
Description Spiller T. - Participation in the 2019 Quantum Technologies Expert Mission to US 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Spiller took part in the latest Innovate UK Global Expert Mission for Quantum Technologies to the US. Between the 18th and 22nd of November, a delegation of all four Hub Directors, senior industrialists from BT, Teledyne/e2v, Riverlane and the National Physical Laboratory, along with representatives from the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme, visited a number of sites discussing opportunities for collaboration. Washington DC, Boulder and the University of Colorado, Santa Barbara, the University of California and CalTech, San Francisco, Stanford and National Laboratories as well as Google, were all key destinations for the group, whose main mission objective was to inform the UK's international strategy for quantum technologies by providing a deeper understanding of the opportunities and barriers to building collaborations and partnerships with US organisations. The mission sought to achieve this objective by providing an evidence base as to a) the existing US landscape for quantum science and technologies; and b) the priorities for US policy and investment in this area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2019
URL https://admin.ktn-uk.co.uk/app/uploads/2020/03/0183_KTN_USA-QuantumTechnologiesReport_v4.pdf
 
Description Spiller T. - outreach talk on Quantum Communications Technologies during European Quantum Week for secondary school children around Europe (03/11/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Schools
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller gave a pre-recorded outreach talk on Quantum Communications Technologies on YouTube to a number of secondary school kids around Europe as part of European Quantum Week. The recording is available on the project YouTube channel and as a result, a number of new subscribers have signed up to the project YouTube channel.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://eqw.qt.eu/eqw-education/
 
Description Spiller T. gave a talk on the UKNQTP and the work of the Hub at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore in Feb. 2020 as part of a scientific visit there to attend the advisory board meeting of the SpeQtre UK/Singapore joint mission project 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Director Spiller gave a talk on the UKNQTP and the work of the Hub at the Centre for Quantum Technologies in Singapore in Feb. 2020 as part of a scientific visit there to attend the advisory board meeting of the SpeQtral UK/Singapore joint mission project
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Spiller T. has contributed to the Emerging Technologies report published by Ofcom (published Jan. 2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Spiller T. contributed to the Emerging Technologies report published by Ofcom (published Jan. 2021), the UK's independent regulator of communications services. Ofcom's regulatory responsibilities encompass the monitoring of broadband and mobile services; TV; radio; video-on-demand services; post; and the airwaves used by wireless devices. It's imperative that Ofcom keeps abreast with technologies emerging within the field of communications and the impacts that they could have, so as to ensure that, when these technologies arrive, people benefit from them and are protected from any potential risks. An 'Emerging Technologies Programme' has been set up by Ofcom to investigate how the way people communicate and connect with each other is evolving across fixed and wireless networks for broadcast, broadband, mobile and satellite services and the report was produced as part of this. For each of the sectors, the report considers 'where we are now' and 'where we are going next', along with, in some cases, any barriers to adoption.

Quantum technologies and their applications, on which Hub Director, Professor Tim Spiller, was consulted, are highlighted within the fixed and optical communications chapter of the report, however, it is recognised that quantum technologies will have implications for connectivity too. The potential risks posed to secure communications by quantum computers is briefly discussed, along with the possibility for the deployment of Quantum Key Distribution to secure commercial networks and of quantum random number generators for use in encryption.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ofcom.org.uk/about-ofcom/latest/features-and-news/emerging-technologies-shaping-future-o...
 
Description Spiller gave a talk on quantum communications technologies at the Financial Conduct Authority /Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub organised workshop on quantum computing and finance (December 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Spiller gave a talk on quantum communications technologies at the Financial Conduct Authority /Quantum Computing and Simulation Hub-organised workshop on quantum computing and finance (December 2020). A full report will be published in 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
 
Description Spiller gave an invited talk ("Quantum Communications Hub - overview of Phase 2 work towards a future quantum internet".) at the online workshop on Quantum Internet organised by Innovate UK and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (5/01/2021) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Spiller gave an invited talk ("Quantum Communications Hub - overview of Phase 2 work towards a future quantum internet".) at the online workshop on Quantum Internet organised by Innovate UK and the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme (5/01/2021)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
 
Description Spiller, Nejabati - participation in quantum technologies showcase at Houses of Parliament, November 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact The Hub was invited to take part at a specially organised parliamentary QT showcase in the Palace of Westminster on November 29th. The Hub participated with two exhibits on quantum networking and the SPOQC mission and was represented by the Director Spiller and Co-I Nejabati.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Spiller, interview for Financial Teams piece on the dangers posed by the advance of quantum computing on current encryption techniques 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller was interviewed by Sam Learner in New York, John Thornhill, Sam Joiner and Irene de la Torre Arenas in London, throughout Spring 2023 for an eventual piece published under the title Quantum computing could break the internet. This is how, on 3 May 2023 . The piece focused on the threats of quantum computing to conventional encryption and the role of quantum communications
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://ig.ft.com/quantum-computing/
 
Description Spiller, interview for the iPaper on the dangers posed by quantum computing on existing encryption techniques, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Director Spiller was interviewed by Rob Hastings from the ipaper for a Big Read article which was eventually published on 18 May 2023 under the title: The race to protect us from a quantum computer that can break any password. The article focused on how quantum communications can help combat the encryption threats posed by quantum computing
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://inews.co.uk/news/technology/quantum-computer-can-break-any-password-2343600
 
Description Spiller, interview on the national quantum technologies programme, The Innovation Platform, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Media (as a channel to the public)
Results and Impact Article with input by Hub Director Spiller on the national quantum technologies programme ("Advancing innovation in the UK quantum space") appeared on the recent (no 15) issue of The Innovation Platform. Can be accessed via https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-innovation-platform/
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.innovationnewsnetwork.com/the-innovation-platform/
 
Description Spiller, participation in UK/Japan virtual QT workshop, 6 March 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller took part in a specially organised virtual workshop to discuss potential collaborations in the area of quantum technologies between the UK and Japan. The event was organised by the Office for Quantum (DSIT) and attended by senior stakeholders of the UK National Quantum Technologies Programme and their Japanese counterparts.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
 
Description Spiller, podcast interview (The Quantum Divide), January 2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press)
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Industry/Business
Results and Impact Hub Director Tim Spiller was interviewed about quantum communications, quantum information technology and the work of the Hub by Dan Holme and Stephen DiAdamo of Cisco for their The Quantum Divide podcast, aired on January 22nd (Episode 16)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://the-quantum-divide.transistor.fm/16
 
Description Spiller, submission of oral evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on the subject of quantum computing and the implications for cryptography (Westminster, London, 4/07/23) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Policymakers/politicians
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller has been invited to give evidence to the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee on the subject of quantum computing and the implications for cryptography (Westminster, London, 4/07/23)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Spiller,, invited external reviewer of Singapore's Quantum Engineering Programme (https://qepsg.org/), June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller travelled to Singapore (19-23 June) as an invited external reviewer of the Quantum Engineering Programme (https://qepsg.org/)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://qepsg.org/
 
Description Spiller/Buller, participation in UK Space conference exhibition, Belfast, November 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Hub's CubeSat model for the project quantum satellite mission SPOQC was exhibited at the UK Space Conference exhibition in Belfast as part of the UKRI stand, Hub Director Spiller and PI Buller were there to answer questions about the Hub's work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.spaceconference.co.uk/
 
Description Spiller/Donaldson, exhibited at Photonics for Space workshop, Leicester, 12/03/2024 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub Director Spiller and Co-Investigator Donaldson participated as exhibitors in the KTN organised Photonics for Space single-day networking event, that took place on March 12th, 2024 at the National Space Centre in Leicester. They exhibited models of the Hub's SPOQC mission 12U CubeSat and Optical Ground Station (HOGS) and gave short talks on the Hub's work in this area.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2024
URL https://iuk.ktn-uk.org/events/photonics-for-space/
 
Description Stroh - poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at QCMC 2022 conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-15 July 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Stroh - poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at QCMC 2022 conference, Lisbon, Portugal, 11-15 July 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://qt.eu/about-quantum-flagship/events/qcmc-2022-international-conference-on-quantum-communicat...
 
Description Stroh L - poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at BQIT 2022, Bristol, 25-28 April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub PhD student Lara Stroh gave a poster presentation (A non-interactive XOR quantum oblivious transfer protocol) at BQIT 2022, Bristol, 25-28 April 2022
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
 
Description Technical Demonstration - Tessinari R: Demonstration of a Dynamic QKD Network Control Using a QKD-Aware SDN Application Over a Programmable Hardware Encryptor, OFC 2021 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Rodrigo Tessinary gave a technical demonstration (Demonstration of a Dynamic QKD Network Control Using a QKD-Aware SDN Application Over a Programmable Hardware Encryptor) at the 2021 OFC - The Optical Networking and Communication Conference & Exhibition [online], 6-11 June 2021
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2021
URL https://www.ofcconference.org/en-us/home/program-speakers/demo/
 
Description Tello A. et al - contributed talk "Prospects of time-bin quantum key distribution in turbulent free-space channels" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Tello A. et al -gave a contributed talk "Prospects of time-bin quantum key distribution in turbulent free-space channels" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://spie.org/ESD/conferencedetails/emerging-imaging-sensing-technologies?SSO=1
 
Description The Hub team has launched a blog ("Quantumness, Randomness and Endless Possibilities") focusing on highlighted diverse career pathways in quantum technologies 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The Hub team has launched a blog ("Quantumness, Randomness and Endless Possibilities") focusing on highlighted diverse career pathways in quantum technologies
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/blog/site/wider-community-and-schools/
 
Description The Hub team have launched a new public engagement twitter feed (@Quantum_City) to disseminate the activities of the Quantum City outreach partnership to a wider audience (June 2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The Hub team have launched a new public engagement twitter feed (@Quantum_City) to disseminate the activities of the Quantum City outreach partnership to a wider audience (June 2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://twitter.com/Quantum_City
 
Description The Sheffield team participated at the New Scientist Live London event on 7-9th October 2022. 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach Regional
Primary Audience Public/other audiences
Results and Impact The Sheffield Quantum Communications Hub research team participated at the New Scientist Live public engagement science festival as part of the Quantum City stand. The team engaged with nearly 3000 members of the general public over the course of 3 days (7-9th October 2022) talking about how light is used in quantum mechanics to securely convey information between two parties. A tik tok video taken at the event and uploaded at the New Scientist TikTok channel has gathered more than 2M views and hundreds of thousands of likes. - https://www.tiktok.com/@newscientist/video/7152188912838905093
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.tiktok.com/@newscientist/video/7152188912838905093
 
Description Thomas et al - contributed talk (Active phase stabilisation for the distribution of high-dimensional quantum states) at ICIQP 2022 Copenhagen (October) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Molly Thomas, Daniel Llewellyn, Benjamin Slater, Caterina Vigliar, Beatrice Da Lio, Stefano Paesani, Massimo Borhi, John G. Rarity, Lief K. Oxenløwe, Karsten Rottwitt, Mark G. Thompson, Yunhung Ding, Jianwei Wang, Davide Bacco, Jorge Barreto - contributed talk (Active phase stabilisation for the distribution of high-dimensional quantum states) at ICIQP 2022 Copenhagen (October)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.conferencemanager.dk/iciqp2022
 
Description Thomas et al - contributed talk (Multiple mode phase stabilisation across integrated photonic devices) at Photon22, Nottingham (August-September 2022) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Molly Thomas, Dan Llewelly, Benjamin Slater, Jorge Barreto - contribute talk (Multiple mode phase stabilisation across integrated photonic devices) at Photon22, Nottingham (August-September 2022)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.photon.org.uk/
 
Description UK quantum networking delegation to the US (Chicago/New York), November 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact The Hub Director Spiller and investigators Buller (HWU), Chunnilall (NPL), Nejabati (Bristol) and Penty (Cambridge) plus representatives from Hub industrial partners BT and NuQuantum, and from DSIT (Caroline France) and Innovate UK (Sam Johnson) traveled to the US on November 12-17 as part of a specially organised UK/US quantum networking delegation organised by the SIN offices of Chicago and NY. The team attended the Quantum Exchange Summit while there and Spiller was an invited panellist on one of the sessions. The team visited a number of national quantum labs (Argonne, Fermi, Brookhaven, plus many NY University Labs and start-ups such as Qunnect). There were many conversations on potential collaboration opportunities and the need for a workshop in 2024 (possibly under the QNetworks branding) to consolidate planning for joint future work.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://news.fnal.gov/2024/01/u-k-delegation-visits-fermilab-to-collaborate-on-quantum-network-resea...
 
Description Ulibarrena, poster presentation at ICE8 Quantum Information in Spain, 29 May-1 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Andres Ulibarrena presented a poster at the ICE8 Quantum Information in Spain, 29 May-1 June 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Vaquero-Stainer, poster presentation (Accurate metrology to evaluate the security of QKD modules) at European Quantum Technologies Conference 2023 (EQTC), Hanover, Germany, 16-20 October 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Anthony Vaquero-Stainer, poster presentation (Accurate metrology to evaluate the security of QKD modules) at European Quantum Technologies Conference 2023 (EQTC), Hanover, Germany, 16-20 October 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://eqtc2023.qvls.de/
 
Description Vaquero-Stainer, poster presentation (Measurements to characterise QKD transmitter modules) at 15th International Conference on New Developments and Applications in Optical Radiometry (NEWRAD 2023), NPL, 12-15 September 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Vaquero-Stainer, poster presentation (Measurements to characterise QKD transmitter modules) at 15th International Conference on New Developments and Applications in Optical Radiometry (NEWRAD 2023), NPL, 12-15 September 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Vick, participation in Space Tech 2023 Expo, Bremen, 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity Participation in an activity, workshop or similar
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Andy Vick and a wider team from RAL Space participated in the Space tech Expo at Bremen in November 2023 with a model of the satellite that will be used in both the Hub's SPOQC quantum mission and the UK/Singapore bilateral quantum mission, Speqtre.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.spacetechexpo-europe.com/
 
Description Wang, invited talk "Dynamic networking for quantum communication and quantum cloud" at NIST QNGC Seminar, Feb 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Rui Wang gave an invited talk ("Dynamic networking for quantum communication and quantum cloud") at NIST QNGC Seminar, Feb 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Wang, invited talk "Dynamic networking for quantum communication and quantum cloud" at NIST QNGC Seminar, Feb 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub investigator Rui Wang gave an invited talk ("Dynamic networking for quantum communication and quantum cloud") at NIST QNGC Seminar, Feb 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Wang, invited talk, "Dynamic Entanglement Distribution Quantum Networking" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact HUb investigator Rui Wang gave an invited talk with the title "Dynamic Entanglement Distribution Quantum Networking" at Smart Internet Lab conference, 2023.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/smart/events/2023/smart-2023-conference.html
 
Description Webb, Contributed talk at CLEO/Europe-EQEC, Munich conference, 26 - 30 June 2023 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Jonathan Webb gave a contributed talk at CLEO/Europe-EQEC conference, Munich, 26 - 30 June 2023
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
URL https://www.cleoeurope.org/
 
Description White et al - contributed talk "Quantum Key Distribution in the Service Provider Network," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact C. White, A. Wonfor, P. Wright, E. H. Salas and A. Lord, "Quantum Key Distribution in the Service Provider Network," 2022 Optical Fiber Communications Conference and Exhibition (OFC), San Diego, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-3.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9748184
 
Description Wonfor A. - Contributed talk (QKD Secured Networks in the UK) at the QNetworks 2022 international workshop, Cambridge, 11-12 April 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher co-investigator Adrian Wonfor presented on the work of the Hub (QKD Secured Networks in the UK) in front of an international audience as part of the QNetworks 2022 workshop, organised by the Hub. The workshop was in hybrid format (in person with also virtual participants) and took place at Cambridge from 11-12 April 2022.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://www.quantumcommshub.net/event/save-the-date-qnetworks-2022/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.quantum...
 
Description Wooltorton L et al - Contributed talk (Tight analytic bound on the trade-off between device-independent randomness and nonlocality), QCrypt 2022 Taipei 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Wooltorton L (Brown P, Colbeck R.) - Contributed talk (Tight analytic bound on the trade-off between device-independent randomness and nonlocality), QCrypt 2022 Taipei
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://2022.qcrypt.net/schedule/#day_2022-08-29
 
Description Y. Gong et al. "Physical layer security monitoring of optical communication using a quantum pilot tone signal," 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA, 2022 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Y. Gong, A. Wonfor, J. H. Hunt and R. Penty, "Physical layer security monitoring of optical communication using a quantum pilot tone signal," 2022 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO), San Jose, CA, USA, 2022, pp. 1-2.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2022
URL https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9891642
 
Description Yi et al, Contributed talk ("Afterpulsing in Planar Ge-on-Si Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes") at Semiconductor and Integrated OptoElectronics (SIOE) conference, Cardiff, United Kingdom (April 2023). 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Contributed talk by Hub researchers Xin Yi, Zoë Greener, Fiona Flemming, Lisa Saalbach, Jaroslaw Kirdoda, Derek Dumas, Lourdes Ferre-Llin, Ross Miller, Douglas J. Paul, and Gerald S. Buller, "Afterpulsing in Planar Ge-on-Si Single-Photon Avalanche Diodes", Semiconductor and Integrated OptoElectronics (SIOE), Cardiff, United Kingdom (April 2023).
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2023
 
Description Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 virtual conference, 1st September 2020 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 virtual conference, 1st September 2020
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL http://www.photon.org.uk/home
 
Description Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Super-resolved entanglement-assisted estimation of range and velocity) at Beyond IID 8, 11th November 2020. 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach National
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Z. Huang gave a contributed talk (Super-resolved entanglement-assisted estimation of range and velocity) at Beyond IID 8, 11th November 2020.
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://sites.google.com/view/beyondiid8
 
Description Zhang C. et al - Contributed talk "Link loss analysis for a satellite quantum communication downlink" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Zhang C. et al gave a contributed talk "Link loss analysis for a satellite quantum communication downlink" at the 2020 virtual SPIE Security and Defence Digital Forum (21-24/09/2020)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://spie.org/ESD/conferencedetails/emerging-imaging-sensing-technologies?SSO=1
 
Description Zixin Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 international (virtual) conference (01/09/2020) 
Form Of Engagement Activity A talk or presentation
Part Of Official Scheme? No
Geographic Reach International
Primary Audience Professional Practitioners
Results and Impact Hub researcher Huang gave a contributed talk (Encrypting quantum computation efficiently with random circuit samplers) at the Photon 2020 international (virtual) conference (01/09/2020) organised by the Institute of Physics (IoP)
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity 2020
URL https://www.iopconferences.org/iop/frontend/reg/absViewDocumentFE.csp?documentID=30549&eventID=1255