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STORK Cryptography Workshop: Towards a Roadmap for Future Research
Late-breaking news: the preliminary program is online.STORK Cryptography Workshop: Towards a Roadmap for Future Research November 26-27, 2002 Golden Tulip Hotel de'Medici, Bruges, BELGIUM ------------------------------------------------------- http://www.stork.eu.org/workshop.html ------------------------------------------------------- Introduction The IST project STORK has the objective of establishing a roadmap for future European research in cryptography within the 6th Framework Programme (2002-2006). To this end, an open workshop is being held on November 26-27, 2002, with the following objectives: * to identify gaps between state of the art in cryptology research and current and forthcoming requirements for cryptographic algorithms and techniques; * to establish a constituency of interested parties to contribute to and monitor the work of the STORK project in its planning of future research under FP6. The workshop is open to all interested parties. It will last for one and a half days, starting in the morning on Tuesday 26th November and ending with lunch on Wednesday 27th November. The preliminary program is now available. Submitting a position paper is no prerequisite for participation in the workshop. The deadline for early registration is October 28 ! The workshop will take place in Bruges at the Golden Tulip Hotel de'Medici, situated just off the busy tourist centre of the city. Registration fee There are two possibilities : * Early registration : EUR 170,00. Form and payment must be received before October 28. * Normal registration : EUR 200,00. Form and payment received after October 28. In addition to the scientific program, payment of the registration fee entitles to : * a 3-course lunch on Tuesday November 26 * a group dinner in a restaurant in Bruges on the evening of November 26 * a 3-course lunch on Wednesday November 27 * coffee breaks and refreshments during the meeting How to register to the workshop Download and print out the registration form which is available on this website (Word or PDF). Complete the form carefully and return it with your payment information to the organizing secretariat. You will receive a confirmation of your registration by e-mail. Payments Payment must accompany the registration for the meeting. Payment by credit card is the preferred method. Cheques will not be accepted. However payment by bank transfer is possible, but only for Belgian participants. Please contact the organizing secretariat for bank account details. Cancellations Cancellations in writing to the Organizing Secretariat Momentum before November 9, 2002 will be considered for a full refund less EUR 25 handling fee. After this date no refund will be made. Refunds will be handled after the workshop and only through the participant's credit card account. Organizing secretariat Momentum C/O Anne De Smet Industrieweg 3 B-3001 Leuven Phone +32 16 40 45 55 Fax +32 16 40 35 51 E-mail: [email protected] Hotel accommodation Hotel accommodation has been reserved at a special group rate in the hotel where the workshop will take place, the Golden Tulip Hotel de'Medici****. Room rates are quoted per room, per night including breakfast , VAT and city tax. These rates will only be valid when booking through the conference organizer, Momentum, and not when booking directly to the hotel.
8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS)
8th Estonian Winter School in Computer Science (EWSCS) Palmse, Estonia March 2 - 7, 2003 CALL for PARTICIPATION BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES EWSCS is a series of regional-scope international winter schools held annually in Estonia. EWSCS are organized by CIDEC, a joint initiative of Institute of Cybernetics (Tallinn), Tallinn Technical University and University of Tartu for the advancement of higher education in computer science and information technology. EWSCS'03 is the eighth event of the series. The main objective of EWSCS is to expose Estonian, Baltic, and Nordic graduate students in computer science (but also interested students from elsewhere) to frontline research topics usually not covered within the regular curricula. The subject of the schools is general computer science, with a bias towards theory, this comprising both algorithms, complexity and models of computation, and semantics, logic and programming theory. The working language of the schools is English. PROGRAMME The schools' scientific programme consists of short courses by renowned specialists and a student session. The course list for EWSCS'03 is the following: * Gregory Chaitin (IBM T.J. Watson RC): Algorithmic Information Theory * Patrick Cousot (ENS): Abstract Interpretation * Ivan Damgård (Aarhus U.): Theory and Practice of Multiparty Computation * Johan Håstad (KTH): The PCP Theorem with Some Applications to Inapproximability For the student session, short presentations (20 min) are solicited from the participants of the school. The selection is based on abstracts of roughly one page (50-60 lines of plain text). The social programme consists of an excursion and a conference dinner. VENUE Palmse is a small settlement in the county of Lääne-Viru, 80 kms to the east from Tallinn, renowned for a large manor that used to belong to the von Pahlen family, today hosting the visitors' center of the Lahemaa National Park. Tallinn, Estonia's capital, is famous for its pictoresque mediaeval Old Town, a UNESCO World Heritage site. There are direct ights to Tallinn from London, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Vienna, Moscow, Warsaw, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Helsinki, ferries from Stockholm and Helsinki. From Vilnius, Riga, the Eurolines coach service is the practical travel option. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Jaan Penjam, Institute of Cybernetics (co-chair) Jüri Vain, Tallinn Technical University (co-chair) Monika Perkmann, Institute of Cybernetics (secretary) Helger Lipmaa, Helsinki University of Technology Tarmo Uustalu, Institute of Cybernetics Heli Uibo, University of Tartu Varmo Vene, University of Tartu Jaak Vilo, EBI, Cambridge WEBPAGE www.cs.ioc.ee/yik/schools/win2003/ EMAIL CONTACT [email protected]
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