[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

[Shitong Zhu]

Hi all,

This is a reminder that we *WON'T* have the reading group tomorrow (Feb 22)
as the presenter will be attending NDSS at the same time. Sorry for the
consecutive delays -- I am sure we will finally start the group on
next Monday (Feb 29). Hope everyone going to NDSS will enjoy the talks and
all the virtual events there!

Best,
- Shitong


On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 10:56 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> First, I would like to thank all of you for signing up for the
> presentations. Now we already have four presenters for the coming weeks
> (thanks to @Zhenxiao, @Ju, @Zheng and @Jinghan).
>
> Second, this is a friendly reminder we *WON’T* have our reading group
> today due to President's Day holiday. I’ll send another reminder later this
> week for next Monday's group (Feb 22) including its details.
>
> Best,
> Shitong
>
> On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 12:14 AM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Hope you all had a great weekend!
>>
>> Unfortunately, our signup sheet is still empty at the moment without any
>> volunteers, which is why I have to postpone our reading group indefinitely,
>> until there is at least one showing up in the sheet.
>>
>> I’m sincerely encouraging anyone who has read, or even written
>> interesting papers recently, to participate in the upcoming presentations.
>> Also, I’m hoping faculty members can encourage your students in doing so.
>> Even though I’m doing my best to keep this event voluntary, I’ll have no
>> choice but start asking around if there is still no one showing up later
>> this week. Please consider participating in this and share the work you are
>> interested in. Thanks and looking forward to starting the group as soon as
>> next Monday (Feb 15)!
>>
>> Best,
>> Shitong
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2021 at 6:02 PM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for marking your availability in the poll. Based on all
>>> votes, *Monday 11AM to noon (PST)* is the most shared time slot. Let's
>>> tentatively schedule our group meetings for this time then.
>>>
>>> For presentations, unfortunately we don't have any volunteers who have
>>> signed up on
>>> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing at
>>> the point. Therefore, let's wait for another week and start the group
>>> meeting on *Feb 8*. Again, please feel free to share any paper that you
>>> find interesting and present it. There were quite some conferences that
>>> took place over the past months -- in security, software engineering, PL,
>>> ML and even other domains. I am sure there were many interesting and worthy
>>> papers that study security-related topics on those venues. I very much look
>>> forward to seeing volunteers to sign up!
>>>
>>> Best,
>>> - Shitong
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 3:31 PM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> According to the Doodle poll (we only have 9 participants so far),
>>>> Monday 10AM-11AM, Monday 11AM-noon, Thursday 2PM to 3PM have the most votes
>>>> (8 for each). I'll keep the poll open for this week and if the
>>>> availability remains the same at the end of the week, I'll pick one from
>>>> these three slots as the recurring reading group time and start the group
>>>> from next week.
>>>>
>>>> In order to maximize the coverage for the reading group, I hope all
>>>> security faculty members can encourage your students to participate, as
>>>> they would probably be the ones who benefit the most from the presentations
>>>> and discussions -- thanks for your support in advance!
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> - Shitong
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 4:10 PM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>
>>>>> Welcome back and hope you all are well and had a wonderful new year!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm Shitong Zhu, a final-year CS PhD student. I'll be helping organize
>>>>> the security reading group for Winter 2021. As you know, our reading group
>>>>> has been suspended for a while since mid-2020, due to the pandemic and
>>>>> other reasons. Entering a new year, both students and faculty members have
>>>>> been gradually noticing that without a venue where students can present and
>>>>> discuss latest research in the community, many folks have found it
>>>>> challenging to keep a fresh/update-to-date research mindset, and more
>>>>> importantly, engaging discussions with other participants. Moreover, due to
>>>>> the pandemic, people are becoming disconnected socially. In these regards,
>>>>> we have decided to resume the reading group, and hope that its
>>>>> reopening would bring not only new ideas, ignite the research sparkles, but
>>>>> also re-connect people together with the wide reach this group has been
>>>>> covering.
>>>>>
>>>>> As usual, we plan to reserve 1 hour per week for presenting papers and
>>>>> follow-up discussions. Additionally, we will keep the Zoom channel open
>>>>> after the 1 hour so that folks can have free chats if they are interested.
>>>>> I have created a Doodle poll for converging on a time slot for the 1 hour
>>>>> presentation/discussion allocation: *https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link
>>>>> <https://doodle.com/poll/t4f52syt8w5qegxy?utm_source=poll&utm_medium=link>*.
>>>>> Note that even the poll shows times for this week, it presents all weeks
>>>>> until the end of Winter 2021.
>>>>>
>>>>> Besides the poll, please also sign up/volunteer for the upcoming
>>>>> presentations in this sheet: *https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing
>>>>> <https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FJanYoWV1WlVXMVTg4hJ_O-wyZcOxGsCcAYAAHKOhIY/edit?usp=sharing>*.
>>>>> With all the conferences held over the past months, I believe there are
>>>>> tons of interesting papers that are worth presentations and discussions.
>>>>> Please don't be shy -- both literature review and presentation skills are
>>>>> at the very core for the development of graduate students.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks a lot and have a great weekend!
>>>>>
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> - Shitong
>>>>>
>>>> --
>>
>> Best,
>> - Shitong
>>
> --
>
> Best,
> - Shitong
>
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