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		First International Summer School on
			   Secure Voting
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			     SecVote 2010
		      http://secvote2010.uni.lu/ 

	Wednesday 1 - Saturday 4 September 2010, Bertinoro, Italy

			Call for Participation
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In recent years, interest in electronic voting has soared. However, the
security of electronic voting systems is not trivially assessed. The
SecVote summer school aims to provide researchers interested in this
field a fundamental basis for further research.



Programme
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The school is divided into 3 blocks, as follows.

Block 1: Voting Systems
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- Peter Ryan (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)
- Jacques Traore (France Telecom, France)
- Michael Clarkson (Cornell University, USA)
- Tal Moran (Harvad University, USA)
- James Heather (University of Surrey, UK)
- Hugo Jonker (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg)


Block 2: Cryptography for voting
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- Vanessa Teague (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Jens Groth (University College London, UK)
- Douglas Wikstrom (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)


Block 3: Analysis and Verification of voting systems
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- Stephanie Delaune (ENS Cachan, France)
- Steve Kremer (INRIA, France)
- Ralf Kuesters (University of Trier, Germany)



Organising committee
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- Peter Ryan (University of Luxembourg)
- Olivier Pereira (Universite Catholique de Louvain)
- Mark Ryan (University of Birmingham)
- Hugo Jonker (University of Luxembourg)


Venue
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The school is organized at the University Residential Center of
Bertinoro, Italy:
	http://www.ceub.it/
The host venue provides accommodation, meeting rooms, and modern
conference facilities with computing services and Internet access.


Registration
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Registration fee is 400 Euros and covers costs for 4 nights (from 31st
of August) in double room, half board (breakfast and lunch), dinner of
31 August included.

A limited number of student grants are available, see the website for
more details.


Sponsors
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SecVote 2010 is organised with the kind support of the ECRYPT II
European Network of Excellence and the University of Melbourne.


School partners
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FOSAD 2010 summer school on Foundations of Security Analysis and Design.
	http://www.sti.uniurb.it/events/fosad10/

The FOSAD 2010 program will cover foundations of cryptography,
verification of cryptographic protocols, trust management, wireless
security, anonimity and privacy, analysis security APIs, and web
services security.

For those wishing to attend both SecVote and FOSAD, please keep an eye
on the website for special arrangements (currently being investigated).