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We are very happy to announce that Florian Speelman has switched groups within IvI to become a member of the TCS group. His research interests include quantum communication, quantum cryptography and complexity theory.

Divya Ravi has switched groups within IvI to become a member of the TCS group. Her research interests in Secure Multi-Party Computation fit well our current expertise. For the coming 5 years, Divya will be working on the new NWO Gravitation project “Challenges in Cyber Security (CiCS)”.

John van de Wetering, assistant professor in the TCS group has been awarded a personal VENI grant from NWO, congratulations!!

On Wednesday, 26 June 2024, the IvI TCS group organized a TCS alumni lunch from 12.00 to 14.00 in L3.36 at Lab42. The goal of the meeting to get to know about current and past research of the IvI TCS group. From 12.00 - 12.30 the current TCS members gave a quick personal introduction and overview of their ongoing research, education and valorisation activities. After that, the retired guests of the TCS group (Inge Bethke, Jan Bergstra, Alban Ponse, Kees Middelburg, Piet Rodenburg) presented their ongoing research efforts.

To celebrate (Dutch) summer, Chris invited the TCS group members for a BBQ to his house on IJburg. Sarah volunteered as chef to prepare loads of tasty Korean BBQ.

The TCS Group of the Informatics Institute has the pleasure to host the following public lecture on Monday, June 10 from 4-5pm in the CWI Turingzaal. Following the lecture, we will host a reception in the Newtonzaal, where refreshments will be provided.

Cyber security is often portrayed as an educational problem or a resource problem, shifting blame on users, system administrators, or the budget holders limiting the system administrators’ abilities. However, there are many hard problems that remain unsolved and that require a coordinated scientific investigation. The “Challenges in Cyber Security” project brings together top researchers from the hard sciences areas of cyber security to tackle these hard open problems. It is led by Eindhoven University of Technology and has been rewarded 21.5 million for a 10-year program. UvA-scientists Christian Schaffner, Zoltan Mann, Francesco Regazzoni, Kostas Papagiannopoulos and Karst Koymans from the Informatics Institute are also involved in the project.

Having grown significantly in the number of group members of the last months, Ailsa organised a TCS group outing to the Jaap Eden Baan, where we had great fun ice skating! We finished off with a nice group dinner in the neighborhood.