2019 EFRI ACQUIRE Grantees Meeting

该提案为“2019 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）计划的第三次年度会议。今年的会议将于9月19日至20日在华盛顿特区举行。本次受助者会议的目的是回顾当前受助者的研究进展，了解该领域的最新国际研究进展，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向评审员、获取pi和受邀主题演讲者进行海报展示并获得反馈的机会。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。本次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，本次会议为受资助学生提供了一个机会，让他们向评审员做海报展示，并从评审员那里获得反馈，获得pi和邀请演讲者。学生们将从参与讨论中受益并从中学习，这些讨论涉及大学专家和行业科学家的不同观点。他们还将接触到量子光通信的各个方面，这是传统物理和工程学科之间的桥梁。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This proposal requests funds for the "2019 EFRI ACQUIRE Grantees Meeting", the third annual meeting for the NSF-funded Advancing Communication and Quantum Information Research in Engineering (ACQUIRE) program. It will be held this year on September 19-20 in Washington, DC. The goal of this grantees meeting is to review current grantees' research progress, hear about latest international research progress in this area, discuss future research opportunities and challenges and provide feedback to ACQUIRE researchers. The support requested in this grant will be distributed to 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 PIs and invited keynote 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 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 PIs and invited speakers. Students will benefit and learn from attending discussions involving different perspectives ranging from university experts and industry scientists. They will also be exposed to diverse aspects of quantum optical communications which bridge traditional physics and engineering disciplines.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.