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Call for Papers: International Workshop on Cryptography, Robustness, and Provably Secure Schemes for Female Young Researchers (CrossFyre) 2017.


Co-located with the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2017 and EuroCrypt 2017 in Paris, France. CrossFyre 2017 will be held on April 29-30, 2017 at UPMC Campus Jussieu.

The CrossFyre Workshop aims to bring female researchers in the fields of cryptography and information security together to promote their research as women in computer science and engineering. We hope to encourage a tighter cooperation across women in different security-related disciplines, and motivate joint papers. In this spirit, female researchers are invited to attend and give a short presentation about their research at the CrossFyre workshop.

We also welcome undergraduate students to this workshop, and strongly encourage supervisors to support their students’ active (submitting abstracts and giving talks during the workshop) or passive (mainly listening) participation.

Disclaimer: Though this workshop primarily aims to bring women together to discuss their career opportunities, network, and exchange experiences, the workshop does *not* discriminate against men. Male researchers are also encouraged to attend.


Format:

  1. Two keynote talks.

  2. Participants introducing themselves; selected fields in cryptography and information security will be briefly outlined.

  3. A plenary discussion on positions and perspectives of women in information security research.

  4. Social events (reception and dinner).


Important Information:

  1. Some grants will be awarded to students who will present their work and are least able to attend. Visit the registration page for further information: http://crossfyre17.gforge.inria.fr/index.html.

  2. CrossFyre 2017 will be co-located with Euro S&P 2017 and Eurocrypt 2017. Thus, a small registration fee will apply. Please ensure to inform us whether you would like this fee to be waived when you apply for the workshop grants.


Important Dates:

All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE: UTC - 12h).

Abstract submission deadline: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.

Grant application deadline: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.

Notification: Friday, Mar. 3, 2017.

Registration deadline: Friday, Mar. 31, 2017.

Announcement of program: Friday, Apr. 7, 2017.

CrossFyre 2017 Workshop: Apr. 29-30, 2017.


Please send your abstracts to r.abu-salma@cs.ucl.ac.uk.


Organizing Committee:

Ruba Abu-Salma, University College London (UCL), UK.

Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & ETHZ, Switzerland.

Veelasha Moonsamy, Radboud University, The Netherlands.

Cristina Onete, University of Rennes 1, France.

For further information, please contact r.abu-salma@cs.ucl.ac.uk.