<!DOCTYPE html><html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Dear Andy, dear all, </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Many thanks for your effort to organize the PQC School. Your proposal, regarding the location and dates, sounds very good to me. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Unless someone raises an objection before next Friday, September 29, we will consider the proposal approved, and you can proceed with the booking and organization of the event. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Cheers,</span></span></span></span></div><div><span style='font-family: "Luxi Sans", Tahoma, Loma, Geneva, Meera, sans-serif;'><span style='font-family: "Nimbus Sans L", "Liberation sans", "Arial Unicode MS", Arial, Helvetica, Garuda, Utkal, FreeSans, sans-serif;'><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Marcos. </span></span></span></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><p>September 21, 2023 at 9:20 AM, "Andreas Hülsing" <<a href="mailto:andreas@huelsing.net?to=%22Andreas%20H%C3%BClsing%22%20%3Candreas%40huelsing.net%3E" target="_blank" tabindex="-1">andreas@huelsing.net</a>> wrote:</p><blockquote><div>Heya,</div><div><br></div><div>We are finalizing location and date for the PQC school. Our proposal is </div><div>March 11-15, 2024 in Porto (Nice places on the canaries got toooo </div><div>expensive). This is Monday to Friday and we would expect that people </div><div>already arrive on Sunday. We cannot move later as RWC is March 25-27 in </div><div>Toronto with first affiliated events already in the week before. If </div><div>anything, we could move one week earlier but that would move it closer </div><div>to the QKD schools.</div><div><br></div><div>Porto already has beautiful Spring weather at that time of the year but </div><div>is not yet totally overcrowded with tourists. Moreover its airport is </div><div>only 30min by metro from the hotels that we have in mind (we have two </div><div>offers next to casa di musica, one of them we use twice a year for </div><div>another international meeting). Also the beach is just ~20min by bus or </div><div>metro from the hotels (or a 5k run).</div><div><br></div><div>Should we ask for feedback or just fix these dates? I think right now it </div><div>would still be easy to add another day to also accommodate the review. </div><div>If we are fine with them, I would go ahead and start contacting speakers </div><div>soon, so that we can advertise the school in late October / November. </div><div>For the speakers, I would try to cover as much as possible from the </div><div>project team, but we should invite someone from lattices, codes, and MQ </div><div>(Alex can take cryptanalysis of these but not sure if any of us wants to </div><div>cover the constructive side of these in a full lecture).</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Andy</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>-- </div><div>Qsi_all mailing list</div><div><a href="mailto:Qsi_all@qsiproject.eu">Qsi_all@qsiproject.eu</a></div><div><a href="https://listas.qsiproject.eu/listinfo/qsi_all" target="_blank">https://listas.qsiproject.eu/listinfo/qsi_all</a></div></blockquote><div><br></div></body></html>