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Dr Wolfgang Tittel
Quantum Cryptography

Alongside iCORE's $750,000 investment, General Dynamics Canada has committed to provide industry support to the research chair - support that is anticipated to continue over the next five years. NSERC is expected to provide an ICE grant of $150,000 for the initial year with continued five year support. In addition, Dr Tittel benefits from important support from the University of Calgary for setting up a state-of-the-art laboratory, including a long lasting test-bed link over the standard telecommunication fibre network. Furthermore, SAIT will provide laboratory space to host the second end of the test-bed link.

Research Program Overview
Supported by General Dynamics Canada, Tittel will be exploring the threshold of quantum cryptography into next-generation security architectures. Dr Tittel sees that with the advent of quantum computing, and threatened by the development of faster classical computers and better code breaking algorithm, most cryptographic methods used nowadays are fallible.

For Dr Tittel, Calgary offers the requisite intellectual and physical infrastructure to form a worldwide unique platform for Quantum Cryptography research - a perfect building point. Partners at the University of Calgary (UofC) and the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology will allow Tittel to perform applied and fundamental research. Collaborations with industry, government and academia (Calgary’s General Dynamics Canada GDC, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment and the UofC’s Centre for Information Security and Cryptography) will ensure quality, security and standards, and will allow Tittel’s research to become solutions for digitally-enabled, mobile businesses and people.


Biographical Information
Dr Tittel studied Physics at the University of Frankfurt in Germany, was a Ph.D. student at the University of Geneva / GAP Optique in Switzerland and did post doctoral work at the University of Aarhus / Denmark and again at GAP Optique before being recruited by iCORE. Along with collaborations with his present Quantum Memory group, who continues on in Geneva, Dr Tittel has existing collaborative connections with the Institute for Quantum Computing in Waterloo, and research groups at the Lund Institute of Technology/Sweden, the University of Nice/France and Paderborn/Germany. Furthermore, within the framework of QuantumWorks, a conditionally awarded innovation platform funded by the National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC), Dr Tittel collaborates with researchers from the Universities of Toronto, Waterloo and Montreal.


Research Team
Dr Tittel is establishing his lab in the fall, and currently is working with one other team member. Itzel Lucio Martinez

Related Links:
Institute for Quantum Information Science