<div dir="ltr"><p style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers: International Workshop on Cryptography, Robustness, and Provably Secure Schemes for Female Young Researchers (<span class="gmail-il">CrossFyre</span>) 2017.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Co-located with the IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy 2017 and EuroCrypt 2017 in Paris, France. <span class="gmail-il">CrossFyre</span> 2017 will be held on April 29-30, 2017 at UPMC Campus Jussieu.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The <span class="gmail-il">CrossFyre</span> 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 <span class="gmail-il">CrossFyre</span> workshop.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Format:</span></p><ol style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Two keynote talks.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Participants introducing themselves; selected fields in cryptography and information security will be briefly outlined.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A plenary discussion on positions and perspectives of women in information security research.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Social events (reception and dinner).</span></p></li></ol><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Information:</span></p><ol style="font-size:12.8px;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Some grants will be awarded to students who will present their work and are least able to attend. Visit the </span><a href="https://www.crossfyre2016.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/de/the-workshop/registration/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">registration page</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> for further information: </span><a href="http://crossfyre17.gforge.inria.fr/index.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://crossfyre17.gforge.<wbr>inria.fr/index.html</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:decimal;font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-il">CrossFyre</span> 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.</span></p></li></ol><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Important Dates:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">All deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE: UTC - 12h).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstract submission deadline: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Grant application deadline: Friday, Feb. 24, 2017.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Notification: Friday, Mar. 3, 2017.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Registration deadline: Friday, Mar. 31, 2017.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Announcement of program: Friday, Apr. 7, 2017.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><span class="gmail-il">CrossFyre</span> 2017 Workshop: Apr. 29-30, 2017.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Please send your abstracts to </span><a href="mailto:r.abu-salma@cs.ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:consolas;background-color:transparent;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">r.abu-salma@cs.ucl.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br style="font-size:12.8px"><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Organizing Committee:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ruba Abu-Salma, University College London (UCL), UK.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Katerina Mitrokotsa, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden & ETHZ, Switzerland.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Veelasha Moonsamy, Radboud University, The Netherlands.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cristina Onete, University of Rennes 1, France.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-size:12.8px;line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:8pt"><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For further information, please contact </span><a href="mailto:r.abu-salma@cs.ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-family:consolas;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">r.abu-salma@cs.ucl.ac.uk</span></a><span style="font-family:consolas;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p></div>