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Call for Participation: SecVote 2012
Second International Summer School on  Secure Voting
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SecVote 2012    - http://secvote.uni.lu/
Monday 16 - Friday 20 July 2012
Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany
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The design of a successful voting system is an extremely rich problem,
requiring to reconcile requirements from fields as diverse as law,
social choice theory or political sciences into a design that can
provide trust in the correctness of an election outcome as well as
convince that privacy is guaranteed, sometimes even in the presence of
cheating or coerced voters.

The SecVote 2012 summer school, as a follow up of the successful SecVote
2010, will investigate voting technologies from these various point of
views. The program will cover fundamental tools used to build voting
systems, describe some of the most recent system designs, and give
insight on lessons taken from system deployments. Open sessions will
also be organized for the presentation of recent works and discussions. 


Programme
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- Michael Clarkson, George Washington University
  Verifiability in Electronic Voting
- Ulle Endrisse, University of Amsterdam
  Voting Theory
- Helger Lipmaa, University of Tartu
  On cast-as-intended Internet voting: the cases of Norway and Estonia
- Alon Rosen, Herzliya Interdisciplinary Center
  The Wombat Voting System
- Philip Stark, University of California Berkeley
  Evidence-Based Elections: Risk-Limiting Audits and Resilient Canvass
  Frameworks
- Melanie Volkamer,  TU Darmstadt / CASED
  * Usability of verifiability
  * Deriving requirements from the law
- Dan Wallach, Rice University
   * Real-life failures of voting systems
   * The VoteBox voting system
- Bogdan Warinschi, University of Bristol
  Vote privacy: models and cryptographic underpinnings
- Filip Zagorski, Wroclaw University of Technology
  Remotegrity

In addition to the official lectures, there will be open sessions with
room for presentations by the participants.



Venue
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The school is organized at Schloss Dagstuhl, in Dagstuhl, Germany:
    http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/about-dagstuhl/
The host venue provides accommodation, meeting rooms, and modern
conference facilities with computing services and Internet access.


Registration & accommodation
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Registration fee for SecVote is 160 Euros. Accommodation costs are per
Dagstuhl: 45 euro per person per day for a double (shared) room. This covers
full board (breakfast, lunch and dinner).


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)