2017 EFRI ACQUIRE Grantees Meeting, San Jose, May 14, 2017

该提案要求为“2017年EFRI ACQUIRE受赠者会议”提供资金，这是NSF资助的推进通信和量子信息工程研究（ACQUIRE）计划的第一次年度会议。今年将于2017年5月14日在美国加州圣何塞的圣何塞会议中心举行。这个为期一天的受助人会议的目标是审查当前受助人的研究进展，听取这一领域的最新国际研究进展，通过分组会议在研讨会般的环境中讨论未来的研究机会和挑战，并向ACQUIRE研究人员提供反馈。这笔赠款中要求的支持将分发给受邀演讲者和学生，以支付部分差旅费，并帮助支付其他关键后勤和组织费用的一部分。本次会议为受助学生提供了一个机会，使海报演示文稿，并从评审员，获取PI的和全体会议邀请发言人的反馈。该研讨会将提供工程和物理学科之间的跨学科互动，使学生的参与和学习机会。这个为期一天的受助人会议的智力价值是审查当前受助人的研究进展，讨论未来的研究在收购计划，并提供反馈。工程和物理研究人员在为期四年的探索中面临着重大挑战，即为大规模网络设计微型量子通信系统组件。具有挑战性的目标是创建一种紧凑实用的量子通信技术，在具有纠缠光子的光纤网络中以低能量在室温附近运行。正在研究各种各样的主题和技术，包括源，检测器，上变频器，量子存储器，同步器，纠错器等。本次年度受资助者会议为ACQUIRE计划以及量子光通信研究相关和更广泛主题的未来发展提供了一个机会，并与来自学术界，工业界，政府实验室和资助机构的主要研究人员和决策者进行了安全光通信。在教育方面，本次会议为受资助者学生提供了一个机会，让他们可以制作海报演示，并从评审员、ACQUIRE PI和代表该主题广泛国际多样性的全体受邀演讲者那里获得反馈。学生将受益，并从参加和划线集中分组会议讨论学习。学生将从涉及大学专家和行业科学家的不同观点的讨论中受益，并接触到连接传统物理学和工程学科的量子光通信的各个方面。

This proposal requests funds for the "2017 EFRI ACQUIRE Grantees Meeting",the first annual meeting for the NSF-funded Advancing Communication and Quantum Information Research in Engineering (ACQUIRE) program. It will be held, this year, on May 14, 2017 at the San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, California, United States. The goal of this one-day grantees meeting is to review current grantees research progress, hear about latest international research progress in this area, discuss future research opportunities and challenges in a workshop-like environment through breakout sessions, and provide feedback to ACQUIRE researchers. The support requested in this grant will be distributed to invited speakers and students to partially defray travel costs, and to help cover a portion of other key logistical and organizational costs. This meeting provides an opportunity for grantees students to make poster presentations to, and get feedback from reviewers, ACQUIRE PI's and plenary invited speakers. The workshop will provide inter-disciplinary interactions between engineering and physics disciplines for enabling student participation and learning opportunities. The intellectual merit of this one-day grantees meeting is to review current grantees research progress, discuss future research in the ACQUIRE program, and provide feedback. Engineering and physics researchers are confronting major challenges in a four-year quest to engineer micro-scale quantum communication system components for large-scale networks. The challenging goal is to create a compact and practical quantum communication technology operating near room temperature with low energy in a fiber optic network with entangled photons. A diverse range of topics and techniques are being investigated, including sources, detectors, up-converters, quantum memories, synchronizers, error correctors, etc. with various material platforms. This annual grantees meeting offers an opportunity for recommendations for the ACQUIRE program and future growth of the related and broader topics of quantum optical communications research, and secure optical communications with key researchers and decision makers from academia, industry, government laboratories and funding agencies.In terms of educational aspects, this meeting provides an opportunity for grantees students to make poster presentations to, and get feedback from reviewers, ACQUIRE PI's and plenary invited speakers who represent the broad international diversity of this topic. Students will benefit and learn from attending and scribing focused breakout session discussions. Students will benefit from discussions involving different perspectives ranging from university experts and industry scientists, and be exposed to diverse aspects of quantum optical communications which bridge traditional physics and engineering disciplines.