[Security-meetings] Security Reading Group for Winter 2021

Mon Mar 1 10:29:12 PST 2021

Hi all,

This is a friendly reminder that we will have our first reading group for
this quarter at 11AM PST. Zhenxiao will present and discuss two papers
today: (1) SymCC (https://www.usenix.org/system/files/sec20-poeplau.pdf)
and (2) SymQEMU (
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/ndss2021_2B-2_24118_paper.pdf
).

Please use the Zoom link https://ucr.zoom.us/j/2957702345 to join
(@Zhenxiao: I'll let you share your screen once you join). See you all soon!

Best,
- Shitong

On Sun, Feb 21, 2021 at 7:58 PM Shitong Zhu <shitong.zhu at email.ucr.edu>
wrote:

> 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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