NSF/DIMACS Workshop for Aspiring PIs in Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace

October 15, 2012
Sheraton Raleigh Hotel, Room: Oak Forest B, Raleigh, North Carolina

Organizer:: Rebecca Wright, DIMACS Director, Rutgers University, satc-aspiring at dimacs.rutgers.edu

Presented under the auspices of the DIMACS Special Focus on Cybersecurity with additional support from the National Science Foundation under grant number CNS-1265542.

Workshop Program:

Monday, October 15, 2012

  8:15 -  9:00  Breakfast and registration
 
  9:00 -  9:10  Welcoming Remarks
                Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University
 
  9:10 - 10:30  Overview of NSF's Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace Program (SaTC)
                NSF Program Officers

                - SaTC Overview and Strategic Plan, Sam Weber, NSF Slides Video
                - SaTC perspectives: Trustworthy Computing Systems (TWC), Transition to Practice (TTP), Jeremy Epstein, NSF Slides Video
                - SaTC Perspectives: Social, Behavioral, and Economics (SBE), Peter Muhlberger, NSF Slides Video
                - Cybersecurity Education, Victor Piotrowski, NSF Slides Video
                - Q&A 
 
 10:30 - 11:00  Break and one-on-one's with NSF Program Officers
 
 11:00 - 12:30  Brief talks by current SaTC PIs.

                - Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Slides Video
                - Daniela Oliveira, Bowdoin College Slides Video
                - Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers University Slides Video
                - Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University Slides Video
 
 12:30 -  1:45  Working Lunch
                One-on-one's with NSF program officers starting at 1pm. 
 
  1:45 -  2:30  Small group discussions AND continue one-on-one's with NSF program officers.
 
  2:30 -  3:30  Panel: How to develop a successful proposal?

                Moderator: Rebecca Wright, Rutgers University
                Panelists:
                     Janne Lindqvist, Rutgers University
                     Anna Lysyanskaya, Brown University
                     Daniela Oliveira, Bowdoin College
                     Ting Yu, North Carolina State University
 
  3:30 -  4:00  Break and one-on-one's with NSF Program Officers
 
  4:00 -  5:00  Closing Session 

                - Advice on creating a successful proposal, how to avoid common mistakes, etc. Vijay Atluri, NSF Slides
                - Discussions: revisiting SaTC scope, more on common mistakes made in SaTC proposals, open Q&A with NSF program officers.  
                - Wrap-up, Jeremy Epstein, NSF