Call for Contributions for the 15th International

E-Voting PhD Seminar

October 8-9, 2015
Copenhagen, Denmark

IT University of Copenhagen – in co-operation with TU Darmstadt, Tallinn University of Technology, Gesellschaft für Informatik, and E-Voting.CC – will host a 2-day PhD seminar on October 8-9, 2015, in Copenhagen.

The seminar focus will be to exchange and discuss current research of PhD students, in particular governance, organisation and technical set-up of both polling station and Internet-based e-voting.

This seminar continues the tradition of PhD workshops on e-voting. Since 2006 the PhD seminars have focused on various aspects of e-voting including technical aspects, identity management, verifiability of the vote, etc. The seminars took place in various locations in Austria, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland. It will be hosted for the first time in Denmark.

The goal of the seminar series is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees.

What makes this seminar series special is that it is truly interdisciplinary, where PhD students from legal backgrounds are joined by PhD students with computer science and cryptography backgrounds and by social scientists.

Programme

The programme starts on Thursday, October 8 at 14:00 (local time) and will finish on Friday, October 9.

• Thursday, October 8: Welcome, introduction to the seminar and social event.
• Friday, October 9: PhD Seminar

Read the full programme here.

Target audience

• PhD students in the field of e-voting (computer scientists, mathematicians, logicians, legal experts, public administration, political science, social scientists, cryptographers, anthropologists, etc.);
• PhD students in related areas, where privacy, authentication, integrity and trust play a role, and for whom e-voting constitutes and interesting application domain;
• Master students in e-voting and related areas are welcome to participate. Proposals for presentations will be considered if possible.

Academics and professionals with an interest in the topic of e-voting and who are willing to assist the participating PhD students with their research are welcome to join the seminar.

Contribution

Each interested participant should submit his/her research proposal (or alternatively ideas for papers, open problems, or other issues where feedback from colleagues would be helpful etc.) of some two pages length using the conference platform provided at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evote2015-phdseminar

The PhD chairs will facilitate feedback which will be available ahead of the event in order to improve the submission before presentation.

Venue

The conference will be held at the IT University of Copenhagen. See our guide to finding the IT University.

Key dates

• September 4, 2015: Extended deadline for submitting research proposals and papers
• September 7, 2015: Notification of acceptance
• September 11, 2015: Deadline for final registration and payment of fee

Costs

The participation is € 150.00. The fee includes lunch and drinks during the colloquium.

Organiser

• Olivier Bélanger, IT University of Copenhagen

PhD seminar series Steering Committee

• Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Melanie Volkamer, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany

Jointly organized by

• IT University of Copenhagen, Democratic Technology Research Project DemTech
• Technische Universität Darmstadt, Center for Advanced Security Research Darmstadt CASED
• Tallinn University of Technology, Ragnar Nurkse School of Innovation and Governance
• Gesellschaft für Informatik German Informatics Society, SIG SEC/ECOM
• E-Voting.CC GmbH Competence Center for Electronic Voting and Participation

For information and general enquiries Olivier Bélanger, IT University of Copenhagen obla@itu.dk