Beschreibung:

The seminar in the summer term 2026 will be on hot topics in computer security based on two recent top security conferences. This seminar series aims at allowing students to explore computer security research presented on top conferences, i.e., taking a deep dive in recent research and gaining insights in the computer security research community.

Please note that this seminar will be in English: students are required to write their seminar work in English and give an oral presentation in English.

There will be 3 meetings throughout the semester. The first meeting is the kick-off meeting. The dates of the two remaining meetings will be announced in the kick-off meeting.

The procedure is as follows:

1. Students join the kick-off meeting on Monday, 20th of April at 12pm in SE 008 (no pre-registration is required).
2. Until 26.04. students select three sessions of the two conferences. Students provide a ranking preference of the selected sessions and submit their sessions.
3. Next, the seminar organizers assign one session to each student.
4. Meeting 2 (May/June): students enroll in this meeting to get feedback on their paper structure and their progress. This meeting is not mandatory and students have to sign in before attending the meeting.
5. Meeting 3 (mid of July): Oral presentation of the seminar work and submission of the seminar work.

Qualifikationsziele:

Die Studierenden lernen Methoden des wissenschaftlichen Arbeitens und sind in der Lage eigenständig ein Themengebiet auf Basis von wissenschaftlichen Veröffentlichungen zu erarbeiten. Durch die Seminararbeit lernen die Studierenden ein wissenschaftliches Thema zusammenzufassen sowie wissenschaftliche Publikationen zu systematisieren und bewerten. Die Studierenden üben die Präsentation über ein wissenschaftliches Themengebiet in Form der Abschlusspräsentation.