[Qsi_all] PQC school March

[Andreas Hülsing]

Heya,

We are finalizing location and date for the PQC school. Our proposal is 
March 11-15, 2024 in Porto (Nice places on the canaries got toooo 
expensive). This is Monday to Friday and we would expect that people 
already arrive on Sunday. We cannot move later as RWC is March 25-27 in 
Toronto with first affiliated events already in the week before. If 
anything, we could move one week earlier but that would move it closer 
to the QKD schools.

Porto already has beautiful Spring weather at that time of the year but 
is not yet totally overcrowded with tourists. Moreover its airport is 
only 30min by metro from the hotels that we have in mind (we have two 
offers next to casa di musica, one of them we use twice a year for 
another international meeting). Also the beach is just ~20min by bus or 
metro from the hotels (or a 5k run).

Should we ask for feedback or just fix these dates? I think right now it 
would still be easy to add another day to also accommodate the review. 
If we are fine with them, I would go ahead and start contacting speakers 
soon, so that we can advertise the school in late October / November. 
For the speakers, I would try to cover as much as possible from the 
project team, but we should invite someone from lattices, codes, and MQ 
(Alex can take cryptanalysis of these but not sure if any of us wants to 
cover the constructive side of these in a full lecture).

Cheers,

Andy