English

If sufficient demand

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.

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.

- 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

- 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

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

Seminars

Self-study literature review

Seminars given by participants

Attend the seminar
Give feedback
Be active in the discussions and pass the quizzes

Failed, pass

PhD students whose research is related to security or who are interested in security

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.

 

research papers

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

EIT190F

2021-01-12

Professor Thomas Johansson