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