[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

[Shitong Zhu]

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
>>
>
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