[quantum-info] FW: ICITS 2012 workshop deadline: April 23

[Daniel Gottesman]

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Subject: ICITS 2012 workshop deadline: April 23

Dear colleagues,

The deadline for submitting workshop papers to ICITS was supposed to
be today. However, because of holidays (Easter, Passover) and
proximity to other deadlines, the submission deadline has been
extended by two weeks to Monday, April 23 (at 3pm Eastern).

So if you have exciting recent work in information-theoretic security
that you'd like to talk about, and the prospect of visiting Montreal
in August is appealing (which it should be), please submit! ICITS is
an especially good venue for work that has been published in one
community but has not been as visible in other communities working on
information-theoretic security. Papers which broaden the applicability
of information-theoretic techniques (say, to areas such as data
privacy or anonymity) would also be very welcome.

[Recall that ICITS will have two tracks this year, one which will act
as a regular
computer science-style conference (published proceedings, original
work only) and the other which will behave more like a workshop,
without proceedings, where presentations on previously published work
or work in progress are welcome. The conference deadline is now past.
The workshop deadline is (now) April 23.]

For more information, see http://icits2012.iro.umontreal.ca/

Please distribute this announcement to any groups or mailing lists you
feel it might interest. I apologize if you receive multiple copies.

Best regards,
Adam Smith
Program Chair, ICITS 2012


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Call for Papers á á--- á áICITS 2012

6th International Conference on Information-Theoretic Security
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
August 15--17, 2012
http://icits2012.iro.umontreal.ca/

This is the sixth in a series of conferences that aims to bring
together the leading researchers in the areas of information theory,
quantum information theory, and cryptography. áICITS covers all
aspects of information-theoretic security, from relevant mathematical
tools to theoretical modeling to implementation. Papers on all
technical aspects of these topics are solicited for submission.

Note that this year there will be two distinct tracks for submission.

Important Dates:

áConference Track Submission: á--past--
áConference Track Notification: á Friday, May 4, 2012
áProceedings version: á á á á á á á á á Tuesday, May 29, 2012

áWorkshop Track Submissions: Monday, April 23, 2012, 3pm EDT
áWorkshop Track Notification: áMonday, May 28, 2012

á[Note: ICITS (Aug. 15-17, Montreal) is the week before CRYPTO 2012
á(Aug. 20--23, Santa Barbara).]


Two Tracks: Conference and Workshop

The goal of ICITS is to bring together researchers on all aspects of
information-theoretic security. To this end, ICITS 2012 will consist
of two types of contributed presentations. The conference track will
act as a traditional conference (original papers with published
proceedings). The workshop track will operate more like an informal
workshop, with papers that have appeared elsewhere or that consist of
work in progress.

1) Conference Track (with proceedings): Submissions to this track must
ábe original papers that have not previously appeared in published
áform. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and will
áalso be published in the conference proceedings (which will appear
áin Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science series). We note
áthat simultaneous submission to journals is acceptable, but
ásimultaneous submission to other conferences with published
áproceedings is not.

2) Workshop Track (no proceedings): To encourage presentation of work
áfrom a variety of fields (especially those where conference
ápublication is unusual or makes journal publication difficult), the
ácommittee also solicits "workshop track" papers. Accepted papers
áwill be presented orally at the conference but will not appear in
áthe proceedings. Submissions to this track that have previously
áappeared (or are currently submitted elsewhere) are acceptable, as
álong as they first appeared after January 1, 2011. Papers that
ádescribe work in progress are also welcome. We note that the same
ástandards of quality will apply to conference and workshop papers.

Confirmed invited speakers include:

áSerge Fehr (CWI Amsterdam)
áPatrick Hayden (McGill University)
áNegar Kiyavash (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
áXin Li (University of Washington)
áKrzysztof Pietrzak (IST Austria)
áAlexander Vardy (University of California, San Diego)

Conference Organization:

Program Chair: Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University)

Program Committee:

áAnne Broadbent (University of Waterloo)
áThomas Holenstein (ETH Zurich)
áYuval Ishai (Technion)
áSidharth Jaggi (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
áBhavana Kanukurthi (UCLA)
áAshish Khisti (University of Toronto)
áYingbin Liang (Syracuse University)
áPrakash Narayan (University of Maryland)
áLouis Salvail (Universite de Montreal)
áAnand Sarwate (TTI Chicago)
áChristian áSchaffner (University of Amsterdam)
áAdam Smith (Pennsylvania State University)
áStephanie Wehner (National University of Singapore)
áDaniel Wichs (IBM Research)
áJuerg Wullschleger (Universite de Montreal)

General Chair: Juerg Wullschleger (Universite de Montreal)

Local Co-Chairs: Claude Crepeau (McGill University) and Alain Tapp
(Universite de Montreal)

Detailed instructions for authors can be found in the full CFP,
available on the website: http://icits2012.iro.umontreal.ca/