Invited Talks
  • "Is information the key?", Workshop on Conceptual Foundations and Foils for Quantum Information Processing, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, May 9, 2011.

  • "NSERC and me", presentation given to CRSNG's council members, Ottawa, March 7, 2011.

  • "Quantum magic for everyone", Lakehead University, Thunder Bay, February 17, 2011.

  • "Quantum magic in secret communication", Distinguished Lecture Series, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, February 10, 2011.

  • "Quantum pseudotelepathy", National University of Singapore, Singapour, January 18, 2011.

  • "Quantum Merkle puzzles revisited", 14th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing, Rump Session (not really an invited talk), Singapour, January 13, 2011.

  • "Quantum pseudotelepathy", Silver Jubilee Symposium on 75 Years of Quantum Entanglement, Kolkata, Inde, January 6, 2011.

  • "Quantum magic for everyone", Bose Institute, Kolkata, Inde, January 5, 2011.

  • "Magie quantique pour tous", general public conference, Université de Montréal, December 2, 2010.

  • "Quantum magic for everyone", Royal Canadian Institute, The Foundation Lectures, Toronto, November 2,5 2010.

  • "Quantum information and privacy", ETH (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule), Zürich, Novembre 2010. (Joint talk with Charles Benett given for the reception of our honorary doctorate)

  • "Can free will emerge from determinism in quantum theory?", Conference on Is Science Compatible with our Desire for Freedom?, Social Trends Institute, Barcelone, October 29, 2010.

  • "Key distribution and oblivious transfer à la Merkle", Université du Luxembourg, Luxembourg, July 1st, 2010.

  • "Gentlemen cannot read each other's quanta", The New Codebreakers: A Celebration of the 80th Birthday of David Kahn, Luxembourg, June 28 2010.

  • "Quantum Foundations in the Light of Quantum Information", INTRIQ meeting, Saint-Sauveur, June 7 2010.

  • "Quantum magic in secret communication", Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, May 28 2010.

  • "Silver quantum cryptography", The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Barcelona, May 20 2010.

  • "Loss-tolerant quantum coin flipping", The Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO), Barcelona, May 13 2010.

  • "The ABC's of quantum magic / L'ABC de la magie quantique", Bacon & Eggheads Breakfasts, Parliament of Canada, Ottawa, April 22 2010.

  • "Quantum magic in secret communication", PIMS-Calgary Collaborative Research Groups (CRG) Launch, University of Calgary, April 6 2010.

  • "Quantum Cryptography", University of Ottawa, April first 2010.

  • "Silver Quantum Cryptography", 13th Workshop on Quantum Information Processing (QIP), After Dinner speech, Zürich, January 21 2010.

  • "Vingt-cinq ans après, with apologies to Alexandre Dumas", 4th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems (CRiSIS), Toulouse, October 20 2009.

  • "How John inadvertently sent me on a quantum quest", Symposium en l'honneur du 70e anniversaire de John Hopcroft, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, October 9 2009.

  • "Quantum cryptography", Zürich Physics Colloquium, ETH, Zürich, 30 septembre 2009.

  • "Loss-tolerant quantum coin flipping", Classical and Quantum Information Assurance Foundations and Practice, Dagstuhl Schloss, July 29 2009.

  • "Quantum magic in information processing", Canadian Higher Education IT Conference (CANHEIT), Montreal, June 10 2009.

  • "Introduction to quantum cryptography", Workshop annuel de l’INTRIQ, Jouvence, QC, May 21, 2009.

  • "Les codes secrets à travers les âges", Série des Grandes Conférences du Centre de recherches mathématiques, Montréal, April 16, 2009.

  • "The origin of quantum cryptography", Santa's Crypto Get-Together, Prague, December 4, 2008.

  • "Magie quantique en informatique", Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, November 19&20, 2008.

  • "Informatique quantique", Université du Québec à Montréal, November 13, 2008.

  • "La cryptographie quantique", Club mathématique, Université de Montréal, November 12, 2008.

  • "The origin of quantum key distribution: A personal perspective", Quantum Key Distribution Network Demonstration Scientific Conference (SECOQC), Vienna, Austria, October 10, 2008.

  • "Vingt-cinq ans après, with apologies to Alexandre Dumas", IACR Distinguished Lecture, Crypto 2008, Santa Barbara, CA, August 18, 2008.

  • "Quantum communication complexity and pseudo-telepathy", La Sapienza, Rome, July 10, 2008.

  • "A quarter century of quantum key distribution – A personal perspective", La Sapienza, Rome, June 27, 2008.

  • "Pile ou face quantique tolérant aux pertes", Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France, May 9, 2008.

  • "A quarter century of quantum key distribution – A personal perspective" (after-banquet speech), Solvay Workshop on Bits, Quanta and Complex Systems, Bruxelles, May 2, 2008.

  • "Les codes secrets, de l’Antiquité à demain", Belles Soirées, Université de Montréal, March 12, 2008.

  • "A strict hierarchy of Bell theorems", Workshop on Multiparty Quantum Information, McGill’s Bellairs Research Institute, Barbade, March 13, 2008.

  • "Quantum Merkle puzzles", Séminaires du LITQ, Université de Montréal, February 22, 2008.

  • "Twenty-five years of quantum key distribution" (Keynote Address), Second International Conference on Quantum, Nano, and Micro Technologies (ICQNM08), Sainte Luce, Martinique, February 11, 2008.

  • "A personal perspective on quantum cryptography" (Faculty of Science Distinguished Lecture), University of Calgary, September 28, 2007.

  • "Quantum information processing" (tutorial), Sixth International Conference on Unconventional Computation (UC'07), Queen's University, Kingston, August 14, 2007.

  • "Quantum foundations in the light of quantum information", C&O@40 Conference : A celebration of 40 years of Combinatorics and Optimization at the University of Waterloo, June 23, 2007.

  • "Intrication : Mystères et applications", Colloque Nouvelles perspectives sur la Matière, la Lumière et l’Univers, Université Interdisciplinaire de Paris, Sorbonne, Paris, June 2, 2007.

  • "Pseudo-Telepathy", Colloque panquébécois des étudiants, ISM, Concordia, May 13, 2007.

  • "Loss-Tolerant Quantum Coin Tossing", Institut canadien de recherche avancée (ICRA), St John’s, Terre-Neuve, May 2, 2007.

  • "Quantum Foundations in the Light of Quantum Information", New Directions in the Foundations of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, April 14, 2007.

  • "La cryptographie : Un futur au passé moins-que-parfait", Grande conférence dans le cadre des festivités du 40e anniversaire, DIRO, Université de Montréal, November 2, 2006.

  • "Calcul réversible et démon de Maxwell" (conférence principale), 50e congrès de l’Association mathématique du Québec (AMQ), Shawinigan, October 20, 2006.

  • "Quantum Cryptography", First Annual QuantumWorks Conference, Waterloo, September 27, 2006.

  • "Quantum Cryptography: The Past, the Present and the Future", University College London, Londres, August 4, 2006.

  • "And God said: Let there be Confidentiality", IEEE Lasers & Electro-Optics Society Summer Topical Meeting (LEOS), Québec, July 17, 2006.

THE LIST OF INVITED TALKS GIVEN BETWEEN JUNE 2002 AND MAY 2006 IS NOT AVAILABLE NOW

  • "Mysteries of entanglement and Symmetries with communication", Symmetries and Mysteries : A Symposium on the Occasion of David Mermin's Retirement, Cornell University, May 2002

  • "A new elicitation algorithm to teach quantum information processing", NL-2002: World Conference on Networked Learning in a Global Environment, Berlin, Germany, May 2002 (with Esma Aïmeur)

  • "Tradeoffs between quantum entanglement and classical communication", McGill University, April 2002

  • "Quantum information processing", rencontre entre le MRST et son pendant NYSTAR de l'état de New York, Montreal, March 2002

  • "Quantum information processing", école QPIP'02 sur l'informatique quantique, Mumbai, India, February 2002

  • "Quantum information processing", tutoriel dans le cadre de la conférence SSGRR, L'Aquila, Italy, January 2002

  • "Quantum information processing", Centre de Sécurité des Télécommunications, Ottawa, June 2001

  • "Quantum cryptography", Summer School in Quantum Information Processing, Fields Institute, Toronto, Mai 2001

  • "Trading entanglement for communication", Fourth Conference on Quantum Information Processing (QIP'01), Amsterdam, January 2001

  • "Quantum communication complexity", Rencontre de l'ICRA, Banff, September 2000

  • "Quantum communication complexity", University of California, Berkeley, August 2000

  • "Quantum communication complexity", NATO Workshop on Decoherence and its Implications in Quantum Computing and Information Transfer, Mykonos, Grèce, June 2000

  • "Quantum foundations in the light of quantum cryptography", Workshop on Quantum Foundations in the Light of Quantum Information, Montreal, May 2000

  • "Quantum information processing", Florida State University, Thallahassee, March 2000

  • "Challenges in quantum cryptography", DARPA Workshop, University of California, Berkeley, February 2000

  • "Trading entanglement for classical communication", Annual Meeting of the American Mathematics Society, Washington, January 2000

  • "Unconventional information processing", Institut canadien de recherche avancée, Toronto, October 1999

  • "Quantum information processing", University of British Columbia, Vancouver, November 1999

  • "Quantum information processing", Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, November 1999

  • "Quantum information processing", Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Kingston, June 1999

  • "Quantum communication and cryptography", NSF Workshop on Quantum Information Science, Arlington, October 1999

  • "Quantum information processing", Université de Lettonie, Riga, May 1999

  • "Spooky communication complexity", RAND Workshop, Gif-sur-Yvette, France, May 1999

  • "Quantum teleportation", University of Maryland, Baltimore, April 1999

  • "The many faces of quantum nonlocality", Subtle Technologies Conference, Toronto, April 1999

  • "Quantum computing", University of Western Ontario, March 1999

  • "Constructive logic", University of Western Ontario, March 1999

  • "Informatique quantique", Université du Québec à Montréal, March 1999

  • "Quantum information processing", Photonics Research Ontario, University of Toronto, February 1999

  • "The security of quantum bit commitment schemes", 2nd Workshop on Algorithms in Quantum Information Processing (AQI'?99), Chicago, January 1999

  • "The security of quantum bit commitment schemes", 23rd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science, Brno, Tcheck Republic, August 1998

  • "Quantum cryptography", Summer School in Cryptology and Data Security, Aarhus, Danemark, July 1998

  • "New horizons in quantum information processing", 25th International Conference on Automata, Languages and Programming (ICALP), Aalborg, Danemark, July 1998

  • "Téléportation quantique", Colloque international aux frontières de la physique, Université interdisciplinaire de Paris, July 1998

  • "Quantum Information Processing", 36th Annual Allerton Conference on Communication, Control and Computing, September 1998

  • "Quantum information processing", McGill University, October 1998

  • "Théorie de l'information quantique", Colloque de l'ISM, Université Laval, Québec, April 1998

  • "Théorie de l'information quantique", Colloque CRM-ISM, Université de Montréal, March 1998

  • "Quantum teleportation", University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, March 1998

  • "Quantum information processing", Third Latin American Theoretical Informatics Conference, LATIN'98, Campinas, Brasil, April 1998

  • "Quantum information processing", London, Ontario, April 1998

  • "Quantum information processing", City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, March 1998

  • "Quantum cryptography", Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, March 1998

  • "Multi-particle entanglement via 2-particle entanglement", First NASA International Conference in Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications, Palm Springs, CA, February 1998

  • "The Impact of Quantum Mechanics on Cryptology", The University of Telecommunications of St-Petersbourg, St-Petersbourg, Russia, September 1997

  • "What are the Pros and Cons of Cryptography", International Conference on Privacy, Montreal, September 1997

  • "Quantum information processing : The good, the bad and the ugly", Crypto'97, Santa Barbara, CA, August 1997

  • "Quantum Information Processing", University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 1997

  • "Quantum information processing", Ninth Annual Frontiers of Science Symposium of the US National Academy of Sciences, Irvine, CA, November 1997

  • "Quantum information processing", Fourth Canadian Undergraduate Mathematics Conference, CUMC/CCÉM, Université de Montréal, July 1997

  • "Quantum entanglement purification", Quantum Computation Workshop, Turin, Italy, July 1997

  • "Quantum mysteries in computer science", Société Sigma Xi, Ottawa, February 1997

  • "Quantum mysteries in computer science", Société Sigma Xi, Montreal, January 1997

  • "Ordinateurs quantiques", École Polytechnique de Montréal, March 1997

  • "Cryptographie quantique", École Polytechnique de Montréal, February 1997

  • "Recent developments in quantum cryptography", Pragocrypt '96, Prague, Tcheck Republic, October 1996

  • "Quantum mysteries in computer science", McGill University, November 1996

  • "Quantum mysteries in computer science", Société Royale du Canada, Montreal, October 1996

  • "Quantum information theory", Technion, Haifa, Israel, June 1996

  • "Quantum computing: The end of classical cryptography?", University of New England, Armidale, Australia, June 1995

  • "Quantum computing: The end of classical cryptography?", International Conference on Cryptography: Policy and Algorithms, Brisbane, Australia, July 1995

  • "Ordinateurs quantiques", Club mathématique, Université de Montréal, October 1995

  • "Mystères quantiques en informatique", Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf, Montreal, November, 1995

  • "Quantum magic", Informatics Colloquia, University of Wollongong, Australia, 1995

  • "Quantum factoring", University of Wollongong, Australia, 1995

  • "Quantum computing: The end of classical cryptography" (2 conférences), University of Wollongong, Australia, 1995

  • "Quantum computing", Distinguished Lecturers Series, École Polytechnique Fédérale (ETH), Zürich, Switzerland, 1995

  • "Quantum cryptography", University of Sydney, Australia, 1995

  • "Quantum cryptography", Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1995

  • "La physique quantique en informatique" (2 conférences), Université de Marseilles, France, 1994

  • "La physique quantique en informatique" (2 conférences), Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium, 1994

  • "La physique quantique en informatique" (2 conférences), École Polytechnique, Palaiseau, France, 1994

  • "Introduction to quantum crytography", NIST Workshop on Quantum Computing and Communication, Gaithersburg, Maryland, 1994

  • "The strange properties of quantum information", Clarkson University, 1994

  • "Survey of cryptographic techniques", Cryptography Day, IBM T.J. Watson Research Laboratory, 1994

  • "Cryptographie quantique", conférencier Eastman de l'Optical Society of America, Centre de recherche pour la défense de Valcartier, 1994

  • "Quantum cryptography (and other magic)", Distinguished Lecturer, University of Waterloo, 1994

  • "Quantum cryptography (and other magic)", CMS-MAA Joint Invited Address, First Joint AMS-CMS-MAA Meeting, Vancouver, 1994

  • "Les propriétés bizarres de l'information quantique", Université Laval, 1994

  • "L'ordinateur quantique", Université du Québec à Montréal, 1994

  • "Generalized privacy amplification", Dagstuhl Schloss, Germany, 1993

  • "Distillation de secrets", École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, 1993

  • "Quantum cryptography and other magic", University of Toronto, 1993

  • "Cryptographie quantique ou comment protéger l'information privée à l'heure de l'autoroute électronique", Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montréal (CRIM), 1993

  • "Classical techniques for quantum cryptography", Dagstuhl Schloss, Germany, 1993


  • AND A HUNDRED OTHER OLDER CONFERENCES