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

该提案为“2017 EFRI ACQUIRE受资助者会议”申请资金，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。今年的会议将于2017年5月14日在美国加利福尼亚州圣何塞市圣何塞会议中心举行。这次为期一天的受资助者会议的目标是回顾当前受资助者的研究进展，听取该领域最新的国际研究进展，通过分组会议在类似研讨会的环境中讨论未来的研究机遇和挑战，并向ACQUIRE研究人员提供反馈。这笔赠款所要求的支助将分发给应邀的发言者和学生，以部分支付旅费，并帮助支付其他主要后勤和组织费用的一部分。本次会议为受资助学生提供了一个机会，让他们制作海报展示，并从评审员、收购PI和全体会议邀请演讲者那里获得反馈。研讨会将提供工程和物理学科之间的跨学科互动，使学生参与和学习的机会。这个为期一天的受资助者会议的智力价值在于回顾当前受资助者的研究进展，讨论ACQUIRE项目的未来研究，并提供反馈。工程和物理研究人员在为大规模网络设计微尺度量子通信系统组件的四年探索中面临着重大挑战。具有挑战性的目标是创造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下运行。各种各样的主题和技术正在研究中，包括各种材料平台的源、探测器、上转换器、量子存储器、同步器、纠错器等。这次年度受资助者会议为ACQUIRE计划和量子光通信研究的相关和更广泛主题的未来增长提供了一个机会，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提供了安全光通信。在教育方面，这次会议为受资助的学生提供了一个机会，让他们向评审员、ACQUIRE PI和全体邀请演讲者做海报展示，并从他们那里得到反馈，他们代表了这个主题的广泛的国际多样性。学生将从参加和记录重点分组讨论中受益和学习。学生将受益于来自大学专家和行业科学家的不同观点的讨论，并接触到跨越传统物理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.