From ray at unipay.nl Mon Apr 4 17:59:20 2022 From: ray at unipay.nl (R. Hirschfeld) Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2022 17:59:20 +0200 Subject: [fc-announce] Final Call for Participation: FC22 (registration deadline in one week) Message-ID: <7a703c95ac554aaa75b6cf13203d4df0@unipay.nl> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ********************************************************************** Financial Cryptography and Data Security 2022 (FC22) May 2-6, 2022, Radisson Grenada Beach Resort, Grenada https://fc22.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. ********************************************************************** EVENT FORMAT We are planning for a fully physical event, but we are closely monitoring the situation in Grenada as well as global restrictions. The number of new COVID-19 cases in Grenada has been quite low for several weeks. The US Embassy in Grenada has informed us that the CDC rating (which led to a travel advisory being issued on January 18) should change soon. Updates (weekly from about a month before the conference) are posted on the home page of the conference website at https://fc22.ifca.ai/ ********************************************************************** PRELIMINARY PROGRAM AVAILABLE ONLINE We have assembled a vibrant program featuring technical presentations of 32 full papers and 4 short papers, selected by rigorous peer review from 159 submissions. For full details please visit https://fc22.ifca.ai/program.html ********************************************************************** WORKSHOPS Five affiliated workshops will be held in conjunction with the conference: AMHIS'22: 1st Workshop on Approaches to Modelling Heterogeneous Interacting Systems CoDecFin'22: 3rd Workshop on Coordination of Decentralized Finance DeFi'22: 2nd Workshop on Decentralized Finance Voting'22: 7th Workshop on Advances in Secure Electronic Voting WTSC'22: 6th Workshop on Trusted Smart Contracts In addition there will be a tutorial on Quantum Computing Essentials for Financial Cryptographers More details on the workshops and tutorial can be found at: https://fc22.ifca.ai/workshops.html ********************************************************************** REGISTRATION DEADLINE: April 11, 2022 Registration information is available at: https://fc22.ifca.ai/registration.html ********************************************************************** CONFERENCE HOTEL A block of rooms at the conference hotel are available for conference attendees at a negotiated group rate. Participants are encouraged to book their room ASAP to avoid disappointment. Information on room rates and reservations is available at: https://fc22.ifca.ai/accommodation.html ********************************************************************** TRAVEL Information about airlines, airport transfers, and entry requirements is available at: https://fc22.ifca.ai/travel.html ********************************************************************** STUDENT GRANTS We are pleased to announce the availability of stipends for student participants to help defray the cost of attendance. The deadline for applications has passed and all of the budgeted stipends have been awarded, but additional applications might be considered if finances allow. Details of these student grants as well as additional funding opportunities can be found at: https://fc22.ifca.ai/stipends.html ********************************************************************** This conference is organized annually by the International Financial Cryptography Association. Additional information about the conference can be found at: https://fc22.ifca.ai/ **********************************************************************