[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

[Shitong Zhu]

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
>
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