2019 EFRI ACQUIRE Grantees Meeting

该提案要求为NSF资助的先进通信和量子信息工程研究(Acquire)计划的第三次年度会议--2019年EFRI收购受赠人会议提供资金。它将于今年9月19日至20日在华盛顿特区举行。本次受赠者会议的目的是回顾当前受赠者的研究进展，了解这一领域的最新国际研究进展，讨论未来的研究机会和挑战，并为获得研究人员提供反馈。这笔助学金中要求的支持将分配给学生，以支付部分旅费，并帮助支付部分其他关键的后勤和组织费用。这次会议为受赠者的学生提供了一个机会，让他们向评审者做海报演示，并从他们那里获得反馈，获得PI和受邀的主旨演讲者。工作坊将提供工程和物理学科之间的跨学科互动，以促进学生的参与和学习机会。这次受赠人会议的学术价值是审查受赠人目前的研究进展，讨论收购计划中未来的研究，并提供反馈。在为大规模网络设计微型量子通信系统组件的四年探索中，工程和物理研究人员面临着重大挑战。具有挑战性的目标是创造一种紧凑而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工作。人们正在研究各种各样的主题和技术，包括源、探测器、上变频器、量子存储器、同步器、纠错器等，以及各种材料平台。这次一年一度的受赠者会议提供了一个机会，为收购计划以及相关和更广泛的量子光通信研究主题的未来增长提供建议，并与来自学术界、工业界、政府实验室和资助机构的关键研究人员和决策者进行安全的光通信。在教育方面，这次会议为受资助者的学生提供了一个机会，让他们向评审员做海报演示，并从评审员那里获得反馈，获得PI和特邀演讲者。学生将从参加由大学专家和行业科学家参与的涉及不同观点的讨论中受益和学习。他们还将接触到连接传统物理和工程学科的量子光通信的各个方面。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势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.