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The seminar focus will be to exchange and discuss current research of PhD students, in particular governance, organization and technical set-up of both polling station and Internet-based e-voting.

This seminar continues the tradition of PhD workshops on e-voting. Since 2006 the PhD seminars have focused on various aspects of e-voting including technical aspects, legal challenges, identity management, verifiability of the vote, etc. The seminars took place in various locations in Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, Catalonia, and Switzerland.The goal of the seminar series is to foster understanding and collaboration between PhD students from various disciplines working on e-voting. To this end, the program allows plenty of space for discussion and initiating collaboration based on presentations by attendees.

The target audience is:

• PhD students in the field of e-voting (computer scientists, mathematicians, logicians, legal experts, public administration, political science, social scientists, cryptographers, anthropologists, etc.);

• PhD students in related areas, where privacy, authentication, integrity and trust play a role, and for whom e-voting constitutes an interesting application domain;

• Master students in e-voting and related areas are welcome to participate. Proposals for presentations will be considered if possible.

• Academics and professionals with an interest in the topic of e-voting and who are willing to assist the participating PhD students with their research are welcome to join the seminar.

• The deadline for application is February 19, 2018.
• Notification of acceptance will be given by March 1, 2018.

• Bernhard Beckert, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Jörn Müller-Quade, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
• Oksana Kulyk, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany
• Melanie Volkamer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

• Robert Krimmer, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia
• Melanie Volkamer, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology / Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

For information and general enquiries please contact Oksana Kulyk (oksana.kulyk@secuso.org).