Monday, 23 February
Quantum Communication and Computing I
Chair: Pol Julià Farré
09:00 — Welcome
09:10 — Arun Padakandla: Rate Regions for Multi-Terminal Quantum Channels
09:40 — Daniel Kilper: Quantum Communication
10:10 — Janis Nötzel: Simulations in Quantum Communication
10:40 — Coffee Break
11:10 — René Schwonnek: Overview on Device-Independent QKD
11:40 — Ilja Gerhardt: Secure Quantum Cryptography (or Quantum Randomness)
12:10 — Konrad Banaszek: Quantum Noise in Optical Communication Systems: How to Stop Worrying and Start Lovin’ it
12:40 — Lunch
Trustworthy and Secure Communication I
Chair: Pin-Hsun-lin
14:00 —Frank Fitzek: 6G-life2 - Digital transformation and sovereignty of future communication networks for networked robotics
14:45 — Prakash Narayan: Multiterminal Secrecy
15:15 — Coffee Break
15:45 — Ugo Vaccaro: An Overview of Superimposed Codes and Their Role in Cryptography and Communication
16:15 — Svenja Lage: Security of Code-Based PIR Schemes
16:45 — Coffee Break
17:15 —Matteo Nerini: Analog Computing for Future Communication Systems
17:45 — Yanling Chen: Non-Adaptive Coding for the Two-Way Wiretap Channel With or Without Cost Constraints
18:15 — Pause/Transition
18:45 — Special Memorial Session for Volodya Sidorenko
Tuesday, 24 February
Molecular and Nanoscale Communication
Chair: Yaning Zhao
09:00 — Welcome
09:10 — Martin Korte: Microlia signalling: the good, the bad and the ugly side of neuroinflammation
09:40 — Massimiliano Pierobon: Molecular Communication for the Living: Subjective Information and Emergent Communication Paradigms
10:10 — Liubov Bakhchova: Molecular Communications
10:40 — Coffee Break
11:10 — Jessica Bariffi: Coding Theory for DNA Storage
11:40 — Falko Dressler: Molecular Communication in Different Fluids
12:10 — Panel: Challenging topics in molecular communication
12:40 — Lunch
Semantic, Context-Aware, and Goal-Oriented Communication
Chair: Vida Gholamian
14:00 — Erik G. Larsson: Decentralized learning over unreliable communication networks
14:30 — Bho Matthiesen: Resilient Radio Access Network: AI and the Unknown Unknowns
15:00 — Coffee Break
15:30 —Hossein Ahmadi: Semantic Overt–Covert Splitting with Post-Subtraction KL Guarantees and Ambiguity Constraints
16:00 — Armin Dekorsy: Semantic Communications and Links to Joint Source–Channel Coding and Data Compression with the Information Bottleneck Method
16:30 — Neha Sangwan: Byzantine Channels and Systems
17:00 — Coffee Break
17:30 — Marc Geitz: Some ideas for identification codes in practice
18:00 — Stefan Wegele: Quantum Annealer for automated dispatching in railway operations
18:30 — End of Day
Wednesday, 25 February
Resilient and Adaptive Systems (RIS and Networks)
Chair: Nils Hildebrandt
09:00 — Welcome
09:10 — Stefano Buzzi: Overcoming hardware impairments in cell-free massive MIMO through differential space time block coding
09:40 — Maurizio Magarini: Semantic and Molecular Communication
10:10 — Nam Tran: Integrated Communication and Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS)
10:40 — Coffee Break
11:00 — Mohammad Soleymani: Toward 6G Networks: Tradeoff-Aware Multi-Objective Optimization for RIS-Assisted Communications
11:30 — Sándor Fekete: Communication and Connectivity in Parallel Robot Swarm Reconfiguration
12:00 — Panel: Networks
12:45 — Lunch
6G Communications and Poster Session (all topics)
Chair: Roberto Ferrara
14:00 — Slawomir Stanczak: Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC) in 6G
14:30 — Presenters of posters: Lightning talks of the posters (2 minutes/person)
15:00 — Poster Session: (Photo of each poster and vote for best posters)
18:00 — End of Day
Thursday, 26 February
Quantum Communication and Computing II
Chair: Hadi Aghaee
09:00 — Welcome
09:10 — Anton Trushechkin: Quantum communications networks
09:40 — Christoph Hirche: Quantum Information Theory
10:10 — Coffee Break
10:40 — Andreas Winter: Playing competitive games better with separable quantum states than with any classical correlation
11:10 — Saikat Guha: Measurement-based entanglement distillation with atomic qubits and constant-rate quantum repeaters
11:40 — Coffee Break
12:10 — Panel: Quantum Technologies
12:45 — Lunch
Trustworthy and Secure Communication II
Chair: Jonas Hawellek
14:00 — Rawad Bitar: Low-Communication Secure and Private Federated Learning
14:30 — Laura Luzzi: Covert communication over additive noise channels
15:00 — Igor Bjelaković: Physical Layer Security and Privacy
15:30 — Coffee Break
15:50 — Gerhard Wunder: Applications of Wiretap Codes
16:20 — Aydin Sezgin: Enhancing Physical Layer Security with RIS: A Confidentiality-Centric Approach
16:50 — Gohar Kyureghyan: Cryptography meets Mathematics
17:20 — Coffee Break
17:50 — Rafael Felix Schäfer: TBA
18:20 — Paolo Santini: LDPC and MDPC codes in post-quantum cryptography and the issue of decoding failures
18:50 — End of Day
Friday, 27 February
THz, VLC, FSO, and Non-Terrestrial Networking
Chair: Xi Ding
09:00 — Welcome
09:10 — Thomas Kürner: Terahertz Communication
09:40 — Mahtab Mirmohseni: Semantic Communication
10:10 — Coffee Break
10:40 — Stephan ten Brink: Integrated Sensing and Communication
11:10 — Alessio Zappone: Radio resource allocation in metasurface-based wireless networks
11:10 — Coffee Break
12:10 — Panel: Challenging topics in THz/VLC/FSO & Non-Terrestrial Networking
12:45 — Lunch
Networks and Technologies / Resilience II
Chair: Athin Mohan
14:00 — Tadashi Wadayama: Mutual Information Estimation via Score-to-Fisher Bridge for Nonlinear Gaussian Noise Channels
14:30 — Karl-Ludwig Besser: Building Resilience in Wireless Communication Systems With a Secret-Key Budget
15:00 — Coffee Break
15:30 — Shun Watanabe: When is structured coding useful in goal-oriented communication? A case study of distributed function computation
16:00 — Boulat Bash: Emulation of entanglement distribution networks using quantum computer
16:30 — Coffee Break
17:00 — Stefan Schmidt: Reconfigurable Datacenter Networks
17:30 — Goodbye