Frontiers In Security Research
I säkerhetsforskningens framkant

EIT190F, 7.5 högskolepoäng

Gäller från och med: Spring 2021
Beslutad av: Professor Thomas Johansson
Datum för fastställande: 2021-01-12

Allmänna uppgifter

Avdelning: Electrical and Information Technology
Kurstyp: Ren forskarutbildningskurs
Undervisningsspråk: English

Syfte

The course aims at widening the student's knowledge about and understanding of different research areas connected to practical and theoretical security issues. This goal is pursued through readying, studying, explaining and discussing recent results published in well-established peer-reviewed venues in the past 2 years. The acquired knowledge will give students a perspective on the width of security-related research and possible tools to progress in and boost their own research path.

Mål

Kunskap och förståelse

För godkänd kurs skall doktoranden

• - identify high-quality research articles that are relevant to the studnet's research
• - explain the principles and key ideas in other people's results in an intuitive way
• - demonstrate broad knowledge and systematic understanding of hot topics in the area of security and cryptography

Färdighet och förmåga

För godkänd kurs skall doktoranden

• - identify, formulate and explain problems in the areas of security and cryptography, both to an introductory level and with technical jargon;
• - pose questions that identify new, meaningful research directions stemming from the discussed works
• - demonstrate the capacity for scholarly analysis and critical assessment of others' work
• - demonstrate familiarity with research methodology in general

Värderingsförmåga och förhållningssätt

För godkänd kurs skall doktoranden

• - create a platform to assess other students' learning (e.g., a quiz)
• - assess others' understanding of research work

Kursinnehåll

The course is organized as a series of seminars. Every meeting is dedicated to a different research question or article. The chosen papers must be published within the last 2 years and constitute the course literature.

Kurslitteratur

research papers

Kursens undervisningsformer

Undervisningsformer: Seminarier, litteraturkurs som självstudier

Kursens examination

Examinationsform: Seminarieföredrag av deltagarna. Attend the seminar Give feedback Be active in the discussions and pass the quizzes
Betygsskala: Underkänd, godkänd
Examinator:

Antagningsuppgifter

Förkunskapskrav: PhD students whose research is related to security or who are interested in security
Urvalskriterier: Applicants will be selected according to their background and to how relevant security and cryptography are in their line of research. Up to 12 students can sign up to the course at the same time.

Övrig information

Course coordinator: Elena Pagnin, elena.pagnin@eit.lth.se

Kurstillfällesinformation

Kontaktinformation och övrigt

Kursansvariga:
Hemsida: https://github.com/epagnin/frontiers-in-security-research