From fc19general at ifca.ai Fri Feb 8 09:12:26 2019 From: fc19general at ifca.ai (FC General Chairs) Date: Fri, 08 Feb 2019 09:12:26 +0100 Subject: [fc-announce] Final Call for Participation: FC19 (registration deadline TODAY) Message-ID: FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************************** Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2019 (FC19) February 18-22, 2019, St. Kitts Marriott Resort, St. Kitts http://fc19.ifca.ai/ ********************************************************************** ABOUT THE CONFERENCE Financial Cryptography and Data Security is a major international forum for research, advanced development, education, exploration, and debate regarding information assurance, with a specific focus on commercial contexts. The conference covers all aspects of securing transactions and systems. The goal of the conference is to bring security and cryptography researchers and practitioners together with economists, bankers, implementers and policy-makers. Intimate and colourful by tradition, the FC program features invited talks, academic presentations, technical demonstrations and panel discussions. ********************************************************************** PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE We have assembled a vibrant program featuring a keynote address by Neha Narula, Director of MIT's Digital Currency Initiative, and technical presentations of 33 full papers and 7 short papers, selected by rigorous peer review from 178 submissions. For full details visit http://fc19.ifca.ai/program.html ********************************************************************** WORKSHOPS Three affiliated workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference: CIW'19: 1st Cryptocurrency Implementers' Workshop VOTING'19: 4th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting WTSC'19: 3rd Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts More details on the workshops can be found at: http://fc19.ifca.ai/workshops.html ********************************************************************** REGISTRATION DEADLINE: February 8, 2019 (last-minute registration after this date is on a space-available basis for an additional fee) Registration information is available at: http://fc19.ifca.ai/registration.html ********************************************************************** CONFERENCE HOTEL Please contact the hotel directly to check whether rooms are still available at the negotiated group rate. Information on room rates and reservations is available at: http://fc19.ifca.ai/accommodation.html ********************************************************************** AIRLINE DISCOUNTS Discounted airfares to St. Kitts have been arranged for those attending the conference. Information about the discounts is available at: http://fc19.ifca.ai/travel.html ********************************************************************** STUDENT GRANTS We hope to be able to award stipends to student participants to help defray the cost of attendance. Stipend applications should be submitted by February 8, 2019. Details can be found at: http://fc19.ifca.ai/stipends.html ********************************************************************** This conference is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association. Additional information about the conference can be found at: http://fc19.ifca.ai/ **********************************************************************