Conferences and Invited Talks
(A) Organised Conferences (here)
- General Co-Chair at PKC2020, International Conference on Practice and Theory of Public-Key Cryptography (IACR), Virtual, 1st - 4th June 2020 (45 speakers, 379 participants) website
- Workshop on "Cyber Security in the Age of Quantum Computing" University of Edinburgh, Part of SICSA Cyber Nexus, 27th February 2019 (5 speakers, 25 partipants) website
- Quantum Information in Scotland, Workshop of QUISCO, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, January 2018 website
- Quantum Information Technologies: Challenges and Applications, NQIT Workshop, University of Edinburgh, October 2017 (12 speakers, 55 participants) website
- NQIT Theory Workshop, Univesity of Oxford, January 2017 (7 speakers 30 participants)
- Quantum Information in Scotland, Workshop of QUISCO, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, December 2014 (6 speakers, 20 participants) website
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity, Workshop in the framework of COST Action MP1006, Imperial College, London, April 2014 (15 speakers, 48 participants) website
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Spacetime, Workshop in the framework of COST Action MP1006, University of Athens, Greece, September 2012 (19 speakers, 47 participants) website
- Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics, Workshop in the framework of COST Action MP1006, NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece, March 2012 (13 speakers, 35 participants) website
(B) Invited Talks at Universities and Institutes (here)
- Heriot Watt University, IPaQS, Edinburgh, UK, November 2018 Title: Cyber Security in the Quantum Era and the Quantum Cloud Vision
- University of York, York Centre for Quantum Technologies, UK, November 2015 Title: Quantum Digital Signatures
- University of Oxford, Department of Computer Science, UK, February 2015 Title: Non-locality and Quantum Non-contextuality
- University of Cambridge, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, UK, May 2014 Title: Non-locality and Quantum Non-contextuality
- Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Institute for Theoretical Physics, Germany, February 2014 Title: Quantum digital signatures without requiring quantum memory
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Department of Mathematics, USA, May 2013 Title: The coevents formulation: Kochen Specker, consistent histories and Modus Ponens
- University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Center for the Humanities, USA, May 2013 Title: Interpreting the path integral: The coevents formulation
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada, January 2012 Title: The co-event formulation of Quantum Theory
- Academy of Athens, Research Center for Astronomy and Applied Mathematics, April 2009 Title: Towards a Quantum Theory of Closed Systems: The co-events interpretation
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, January 2011 Title: The causal sets approach: From emerging space from causal relations to quantum dynamics of spacetime
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Physics, December 2007 Title: The problem of time in quantum gravity: The consistent histories approach
- Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada, December 2007 Title: Timeless Questions in the Decoherent Histories Approach to Quantum Theory
- École Normale Supérieure, Paris, France, Octobre 2007 Title: Quantum Gravity, Causal Sets and Cosmological Constant
- National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Philosophy and History of Science, October 2007 Title: Consistent Histories: Quantum Theory without External Observers
- Euler Mathematical Institute of the Russian Academy of Science, St. Petersburg, Russia, November 2004 Title: A review of the Decoherent Histories Approach to Quantum Theory
(C) Talks at Conferences (invited and contributed) (here)
- Quantum Information, Edinburgh-Paris Meeting, July 2019 Talk: Testing Quantum Simulators: Digital & Analogue Randomised Benchmarking
- QuHackEd, Quantum Hackathon Edinburgh, July 2019 Talk: Introduction to Quantum Computing II: The Quantum Circuit Model and Basic Quantum Algorithms
- Lattice Coding and Crypto Meetings, Royal Hollowaym London, UK, May 2019 Talk: Computational Security for Quantum Protocols: How Classical Parties can Obtain a Secure Access in the Quantum Internet
- Workshop on "Cyber Security in the Age of Quantum Computing" University of Edinburgh, Part of SICSA Cyber Nexus, 27th February 2019 Talk: Quantum Cyber Security: The Landscape and the Challenges
- 22nd Symposium on Quantum Information, Leeds, UK, December 2018 Talk: A single-device, device-independent pseudo-secret random qubits generator
- Workshop on quantum cryptography, Paris, July 2018 Talk: Towards classical client verifiable blind quantum computing
- Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Verification of Quantum Computers, Design, Automation and Test in Europe, Dresden, March 2018 Talk: Verification of Quantum Computing
- Quantum Information Technologies: Challenges and Applications, NQIT Workshop, University of Edinburgh, October 2017 Talk: Blind quantum verification: From testing quantumness to crypto applications
- QUISCO meeting, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, September 2017 Talk: The Quantum Cut-and-Choose Technique and Quantum Two-Party Computation
- Workshop on Continuous Variables and Relativistic Quantum Information, 6th International Conference on New Frontiers in Physics, Crete, Greece, August 2017 Talk: Relativistic and Device-Independent Verifiable Quantum Computation
- Trustworthy Quantum Information, Paris, France June 2017 Talk: The Quantum Cut-and-Choose Technique and Quantum Two-Party Computation
- QUISCO meeting, University of St. Andrews, UK, June 2017 Talk: Rigidity of quantum steering and one-sided device-independent verifiable quantum computation
- Quantum Information and Measurement Conference, Optical Society of America, Paris, France, April 2017 Talk: Rigidity of quantum steering and one-sided device-independent verifiable quantum computation
- Workshop of the Networked Quantum Information (NQIT) Hub, Oxford, UK, January 2017 Talk: Quantum verification: From testing quantumness to secure multiparty computation
- 20th Symposium on Topological Quantum Information, Athens, Greece, May 2016 Talk: Recent developments in verification of quantum computation
- Workshop of the Networked Quantum Information (NQIT) Hub, Oxford, UK, March 2016 Talk: From blind quantum computation to secure 2-party quantum computation
- CryptoForma Workshop, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK, October 2015 Talk: Verification of Quantum Computation
- Workshop of the Networked Quantum Information (NQIT) Hub, Oxford, UK, July 2015 Talk: Verification of Quantum Computation
- Workshop on Physics and Information 2015, Paris, France, June 2015 Talk: Quantum Measure Theory and Contextuality
- Workshop on Quantum Measure Theory, Raman Research Institute, Bangalore, India, January 2015 Talk: Zero covers in coevents and consistent histories
- 21st Central European Workshop on Quantum Optics (CEWQO), Brussles, Belgium, June 2014 Talk: Quantum digital signatures with quantum key distribution components
- Is quantum theory exact?, Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Frascati, Italy, April 2014 Talk: Quantum non-contextuality as a generalisation of quantum theory
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Gravity, Workshop in the framework of COST Action MP1006, Imperial College, London, April 2014 Talk: Characterising quantum non-locality and histories
- QUISCO meeting, University of St. Andrews, UK, December 2013 Talk: Quantum Digital Signatures without quantum memory
- The Quantum Landscape, Perimeter Institute, Waterloo, Canada, May 2013 Talk: Towards a realist's interpretation of the path integral
- Second Panhellenic Conference in Philosophy of Science, Athens, Greece, November 2012 Talk: Quantum measure theory and the meaning of probability in closed quantum systems
- Foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Relativistic Spacetime (organiser), Workshop in the framework of COST Action MP1006, Athens, Greece, September 2012 Talk: Interpreting the quantum measure
- 6th International Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy-DICE, Castinglioncello, Italy, September 2012 Talk: The co-event formulation of quantum theory and the distinction of pure initial states
- NEB XV, 15th Conference: New Developments in Gravity, Chania, Greece, June 2012 Talk: Causal Sets Dynamics: Progress and Outlook
- “Quantum Malta 2012”, Fundamental Problems in Physics, annual meeting of COST Action MP1006, University of Valletta, Malta, April 2012 Talk: Progress report of WG3: “Quantum Theory meets Relativity”
- “Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics”, in the framework of COST Action MP1006 (Organiser), National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece, March 2012 Talks: (a) COST Action MP1006: Fundamental Problems in Quantum Physics (b) An introduction to the co-event formulation of Quantum Theory
- Sixth Aegean Summer School: “Quantum Gravity and Quantum Cosmology”, Naxos, Greece, September 2011 Talk: Canonical Quantum Cosmology, the Problem of Time and Decoherent Histories
- 5th International Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy-DICE, Castinglioncello, Italy, Septemeber 2010 Talk: Reasoning in Quantum Theory: Modus Ponens and the co-event interpretation
- NEB XIV, 14th Conference: New Developments in Gravity, Ioannina, Greece, June 2010 Talk: The Problem of Time in Quantum Cosmology: A Decoherent Histories View
- Causets at DIAS II: “A workshop on recent progress in the Causal Set Approach to Quantum Gravity”, Dublin, December 2009 Talk: Structure of Quantum Measure Theory
- First Mediterranean Conference on Classical and Quantum Gravity (MCCQG), Kolymbari, Crete, Greece, September 2009 Talk: Causal Sets: Quantum gravity from a fundamentally discrete spacetime
- 4th International Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy-DICE, Castinglioncello, Italy, September 2008 Talk: The emergence of Probabilities in Anhomomorphic Logic
- Second annual conference “GRAVTUM II”, Amorgos, Greece, September 2008 Talk: Introducing Anhomomorphic Logic
- Annual Conference “Computability in Europe”, Athens, Greece, June 2008: “Logic and Theory of Algorithms” Talk: Anhomomorphic Logic: The Logic of Quantum Realism.
- NEB XIII, 13th Conference: New Developments in Gravity, Thessaloniki, June 2008 Talk: Emergent Continuum Spacetime form a Random, Discrete, Partial Order
- Fourth Aegean Summer School: “Black Holes”, Mytilene, Greece, September 2007 Talk: Entropy Bounds in the Causal Sets Approach to Quantum Gravity
- 3rd International Workshop on Decoherence, Information, Complexity and Entropy-(DICE), Piombino, Italy, September 2006 Talk: The Quantum Zeno Effect in the decoherent histories
- NEB XII, 12th Conference: New Developments in Gravity, Nafplio, Greece, June 2006 Talk: Effective topology from spacetime tomography
- ENRAGE (European Network on Random Geometry) Workshop, Utrecht University, Netherlands, December 2005 Talk: The decoherent histories analysis of timeless quantum theories