>VITAE: Nicolas Cerf is associate professor at the Ecole Polytechnique, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, where he teaches information and coding theory, and leads the Centre for Quantum Information and Communication. Ph.D. in Physics from the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, and formerly postdoc at the Division de Physique Theorique, Universite Paris XI (Orsay), and at the California Institute of Technology.