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IACR News item: 04 June 2013

Conference Report Conference Report

The 9th IACR Theory of Cryptography Conference (TCC'12) was held at the Hotel "Villa Diodoro" in Taormina, Italy, on March 19-21, 2012. The organizing committee included Rosario Gennaro and Nelly Fazio (General Co-chairs) and Dario Catalano (Local Arrangements Chair).

The technical program featured 36 papers selected from 131 submissions, along with two invited lectures: "Locally Decodable Codes" by Sergey Yekhanin of Microsoft Research and "Non-Interactive Zero-Knowledge" by Jens Groth of the University College of London. The program was assembled by a 20-member Program Committee led by Ronald Cramer as Program Chair.

The conference attracted 108 delegates, including 29 students of which 16 were given financial aid to attend the conference in the form of free registration and free housing.

The generous financial support of the conference sponsors (Bell Labs, IBM Research, Microsoft, AT&T and Oxford University Press) was also an important factor for the success of the event, and is gratefully acknowledged.

This was the first IACR workshop or conference where printed proceedings were optional, and had to be ordered at the time of registration for an extra fee of $50. Conference delegates received an electronic copy of the proceedings stored on a USB stick which was donated by DEShaw.

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