CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS We are pleased to invite you to participate to the "2016 International Summer School on Social Networks Security, Privacy, and Trust" . http://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2016/SNSPT/index.html September 4-9th, 2016 Padova, Italy Organized by University of Padua -- SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group and the National Research Council (CNR) -- IIT "Istituto di Informatica e Telematica", Trustworthy and Secure Future Internet Group. Supported by Registro.it project MIB, My Information Bubble ( mib.projects.iit.cnr.it). ******************************************************************************* We are pleased to announce the "2016 International Summer School on Social Networks Security, Privacy, and Trust" The school is open to graduate students, researchers and practitioners from academia and industry. The school aims at bringing together members from the international scientific community to debate contemporary issues in Online Social Networks (OSN) trust, privacy and security. The main part of the school consists of lectures given by world-leading researchers in the field of trust, security and privacy in a social networking environment. The school will bring the participants through technical aspects of OSN trust, privacy and security, with a special consideration to the social and psychological side, and with an eye to social networks growing and dynamics phenomena, and spread of mis(information). It is also our intention to build strong research relations and exchange opportunities between the involved institutions and participants. APPLICATION To ensure a high ratio between tutors and students the school will be limited to 40 participants. Applications are submitted by filling the Application Form available at the address http://goo.gl/forms/LVZYng1eEY Also, please send via email (with subject "SNSPT registration", to ALL the following addresses: conti@math.unipd.it; marinella.petrocchi@iit.cnr.it; cascavilla@di.uniroma1.it), the following documents: - a one-page CV; - an application letter explaining your interest in the school and your experience in the area; - a copy of your bachelor (or equivalent, or higher) certificate. Application deadline: July 18th, 2016 Notification deadline: July 23rd, 2016 LECTURERS Prof. N. Asokan (Aalto University and University of Helsinki, Finland) Prof. Guido Caldarelli (IMT Lucca, Italy) Prof. Elena Ferrari (Insubria, Italy) Prof. Alan Mislove (Northeastern University, Boston, USA) Prof. Walter Quattrociocchi (IMT Lucca, Italy) Prof. Ahmad Sadeghi (TU Darmstadt, Germany) Prof. Giuseppe Sartori (University of Padova, Italy) Prof. Thorsten Strufe (TU Dresden, Germany) Prof. Gene Tsudik (University of California, Irvine, USA) SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Prof. Mauro Conti - University of Padua, Italy (co-Director) Dr. Marinella Petrocchi - IIT-CNR, Italy (co-Director) Prof. Roberto Di Pietro - Nokia Bell Labs, France Prof. Luciano Gamberini - University of Padua, Italy Dr. Domenico Laforenza - IIT-CNR, Italy Dr. Angelo Spognardi - DTU Compute, Denmark REGISTRATION Registration fee: 200 euros (the fee is quite small: thanks to our co-organizers!) The organization of the school will support students in finding accommodation possibly at the University residences. A limited number of waived registrations and student travel grants might be available (info at http://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2016/SNSPT/Application.html). FURTHER INFORMATION Please check out the school website at http://spritz.math.unipd.it/events/2016/SNSPT/index.html. If you need further information, please send an email with subject "SNSPT information" to ALL the following addresses: conti@math.unipd.it; marinella.petrocchi@iit.cnr.it; cascavilla@di.uniroma1.it. ORGANIZERS Prof. Mauro Conti - University of Padua, Italy Dr. Marinella Petrocchi - IIT-CNR, Pisa, Italy SUPPORTED BY Registro.it project MIB, My Information Bubble (mib.projects.iit.cnr.it) University of Padua, Italy Nokia Bell Labs, France DTU Compute, Denmark Aalto University, Finland University of Helsinki, Finland