Invitation to the 18th Seminar within the Framework of the Swedish IT Security Network for PhD students (SWITS 2018)

13-15 June 2018

Place: Stockholm, KTH main campus

 

 

We hereby want to invite you to the 18th seminar of our Swedish IT Security Research Network for Ph.D. students (SWITS 2018). Previous SWITS seminars have been arranged by Karlstad University, Stockholm University/KTH, BTH, Linköping University, Chalmers University of Technology, Skövde University, Örebro University, Lund University, Uppsala University and Mälardalens Högskolan, Linköping University and Oslo (in cooperation with COINS), where at each seminar we had about 25-70 participating PhD students and supervisors from Swedish Universities/University Colleges and other Swedish research organisations

 

This year the SWITS seminar will be hosted by KTH and for the first time it will be part of the CySeP Summer School (see: https://cysep.conf.kth.se).

 

Aims of the SWITS network and seminars are:

- To enhance cooperation between research labs and PhD student

- To offer the PhD students the possibility to present their research work, to get feedback and inspirations

- To discuss future activities and projects

- To identify courseware usable on national level and make these available to participating departments

- To identify existing PhD courses at Swedish Universities/ University Colleges and make them available for all students within the network

- To participate in the organization of compact IT security courses or summer schools for PhD students at international level and open them for all students of the network

- To share outside/expert lecturers

(see also: http://www.cs.kau.se/~simone/SWITS/ ).

 

This year, the SWITS 2018 will be held at KTH, Panos Papadimitratos will be the local organiser. We decided to experiment with new forms for the SWITS seminar this year and therefore welcomed the offer by Panos to organize SWITS as part of CySeP. This also means that we will have the SWITS seminar over the 3 days that CySeP is running (13-15 June). The invited CySeP talks will be given in morning and early afternoon sessions, and the SWITS seminar presentations will take place in the afternoons. 

 

PhD students will again have the opportunity to present their research to an auditorium of other PhD candidates and research advisors. All PhD students that want to participate are requested to submit a one-page abstract of a presentation about their current research. The abstract should be in English and should be submitted by the 13th May 2018 at:

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cysep18

(Please note that Easychair is used for collecting all contributions, which will however not be reviewed).

 

This year, you can deliver a talk, or present a poster (with a short talk), or have both a regular SWITS talk and a poster. Please indicate at the title of submission which option you prefer, as explained here (https://cysep.conf.kth.se/call.html). You are welcome to submit more than one abstract (e.g., one talk, one poster).

 

Presentations will be in English and will be 10minutes (depending on the number of presentations) plus time for questions. We will also have shorter poster presentations of 5 minutes. Besides, research groups will again be invited to give an overview of their research work. Please feel welcome to send us further suggestions.

 

SWITS attendees are welcome to also attend Monday and Tuesday, June 11-12, with additional talks and hands on exercises. The overall program will be soon available here: https://cysep.conf.kth.se

 

The draft SWITS 2018 seminar program is as follows:

  

Wednesday, 13th June 2018:

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Morning: Plenary talks

Early afternoon: plenary talk

Late afternoon: Introduction to SWITS and short Research Group Presentations (5 min per SWITS partner)

SWITS parallel sessions 1 and 2

 

Thursday, 14th June 2018

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Morning: Plenary talks

Early afternoon: plenary talk

Late afternoon: SWITS parallel sessions 1 and 2

Early evening: Short poster talks

Evening: Poster session with buffet dinner

 

Friday, 15h June 2018:

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Morning: Plenary talks

Early afternoon: SWITS group overview talks

Late afternoon: SWITS parallel sessions 1 and 2

SWITS seminar summing up and outlook

 

Travel information

Please see https://cysep.conf.kth.se/accommodation.html and

https://cysep.conf.kth.se/Venue.html

 

 

 

PRICES

We will offer free accommodation for 2 nights (13-15 June 2018) incl. breakfast for all SWITS delegates at the FIRST Hotel Fridhemsplan in Stockholm. There is one registration fee for the whole CySeP, which is overall kept very low. SWITS participants can get a further discounted registration by using SWITS_DISCOUNTED_REGISTRATION at the CySeP registration site. The SWITS fee for CySeP is 600 SEK for PhD students and 1100 SEK for Senior SWITS members.

 

 

REGISTRATION and ACTIONS Required

 

 

 

(SWITS attendees that join for the entire week can use the information here for booking additional accommodation: https://cysep.conf.kth.se/accommodation.html

There is a block of rooms pre-reserved, with first cut-off date April 20).

 

 

 

We are looking forward very much to seeing you at the seminar and to further cooperation!

 

Best regards,

Simone Fischer-Hübner and Panos Papadimitratos.

 

 

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Prof. Dr. Simone Fischer- Hübner

Department of Computer Science

Karlstad University

Universitetsgatan 2

S-65188 Karlstad

Tel. +46 (0)54 7001723

simone.fischer-huebner@kau.se