Overview

The Graduate Symposium at PST 2008 will provide an interactive forum for graduate students in the area of information security to discuss their ongoing research work and obtain a constructive feedback from the community of the established researchers for the successful completion of the thesis research as well as expose students to peers’ work and establish ground for future inter-institutional collaborations.

Selected students will be invited to present their work in front of an audience of their peers, a committee of expert researchers as well as other interested attendees. Each participant will give a 10-15 minute presentation followed by 10-15 minutes of discussions led by an assigned mentor. The symposium will be organized as a half-day pre-conference workshop followed by a social event for students and their mentors.

Each student will also be invited to participate in the poster session during the main conference.

Submission
Students are invited to submit original, unpublished work in the area of information security that reflects their thesis research at MS or PhD level. Submissions are not expected to contain polished work with complete results and should focus on the
1. problem description (i.e., current problem state, the significance of the problem)
2. research goal (i.e., research contributions)
3. proposed approach (i.e., methods, algorithms, experiments, (if any) preliminary results)

Each paper will be reviewed by a mixed team of both students and program committee members. Submissions are limited to 2 pages of double column text and must conform to the formatting instructions of the IEEE format. Note that the submitting student must register for the full conference in order to participate in the symposium. A letter from the student's supervisor must accompany the submission, attesting to the student's full time status. The submissions in PDF format should be sent to <gradSymp@unb.ca>.

The accepted papers will be published in PST 2008 Graduate Symposium Proceedings or included in the main conference proceedings.

Financial Assistance.
The Graduate Symposium is offering a limited number of financial grants to students who have their work accepted at the Symposium. The grant will cover part of the registration fee, travel costs and accommodations for the student to attend the Symposium. The application details can be found here.

Registration Details
Presenting students must register for the symposium or conference in order to participate in the symposium. Please note that the Symposium registration ($200) includes Wednesday activities only (the Symposium, luncheon, Networking Reception). If you wish to attend the conference activities as well, you must register for a full conference ($400) which will include the symposium and the conference activities (including keynotes, paper presentations, luncheons and Thursday evening banquet).

Posters
The students of the accepted papers are invited to participate in the poster session during the main conference. Each student will be provided with an 8x4 ft board to mount the poster.

PST08 Graduate Student Symposium program (Wednesday October 1)

9:00 - 10:00 am – Registration and Refreshments

10:00 - 10:30 am - Invited Speaker: David Skillicorn "A dozen tips for grad           students"

10:30 – 12:00 Noon – Session 1

• “Evolving Allergy Attacks”
  Patrick LaRoche, Dalhousie University, Canada
  Mentor leading the discussion: To be announced
• “An Arms Race Between Attacker and Detectors Using Evolutionary Computation”
  H. Güneş Kayacık, Dalhousie University, Canada
  Mentor leading the discussion: To be announced
• “A Framework for the Evaluation of Dynamic IT Service Infrastructures Security Assurance”
  Moussa Ouedraogo, University of East London, United Kingdom
  and Public Research Center Henri Tudor, Luxembourg
  Mentor leading the discussion: To be announced
  

12:00 Noon – 1:30 pm – Luncheon and Keynote: Elizabeth Denham, Assistant            Privacy Commissioner of Canada

1:30 – 3:00 pm – Session 2

• “Multimodal Biometric Identification using Face and Iris Features”
  Md. Maruf Monwar, University of Calgary, Canada
  Mentor leading the discussion: To be announced
• “Preservation of Sensitive Data throughout Its Life Cycle”
  Lotfi Ben Othmane, Western Michigan University, USA
  Mentor leading the discussion: To be announced
• “Intrusion Detection in Opportunistic Networks”
  Tahira Mehjabeen, Ryerson University, Canada
  Mentor leading the discussion: To be announced
• “Preservation of Trust and Security in Long-Term Record Management”
  Jianqiang Ma, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
  Mentor leading the discussion: To be announced

3:00 – 3:30 pm - Refreshment Break

5:30 - 7:30 pm - Networking Reception

More Information
For additional information, or questions, please contact the Graduate Symposium chairs.

Important Dates:

Full paper submission due: June 9, 2008 (new)
Notification of acceptance: June 30, 2008
Final paper due: August 1, 2008
Graduate Student Symposium: October 1, 2008

Graduate Symposium Chairs
Wei Lu, University of New Brunswick, wlu@unb.ca
Natalia Stakhanova, University of New Brunswick, natalia@unb.ca

Program Committee
José M. Fernandez, École Polytechnique de Montréal
Yanguo Michael Liu, HSBC
Srinivas Sampalli, Dalhousie University
Julie Thorpe, Carleton University
Lingyu Wang, Concordia University
Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University
Nur Zincir-Heywood, Dalhousie University
Sheilkh Iqbal Ahamed, Marquette University, USA

Student Program Committee
Sonia Chiasson, Carleton University, Canada
Alexander Hoole, University of Victoria, Canada
Chris Strasburg, Iowa State University, USA