Preannouncement of 5th Swedish Summer School in Computer Science

This is a preannouncement that the Theoretical Computer Science Group at KTH Royal Institute of Technology will again arrange the Swedish Summer School in Computer Science (S3CS) in August next year.

We will celebrate our 5th summmer school anniversary by going significantly out of our comfort zone and learn about quantum computation. Ronald de Wolf (https://homepages.cwi.nl/~rdewolf/) will give a series of lectures accessible to people who do not know quantum from before. The idea is that this will help all those of us who routinely skip intimidating quantum talks at workshops and conference to overcome our deepest fears and learn enough so that during the next conference we can confidently go to the quantum sessions and actually understand some of what is going on (and maybe even ask a smart question or two).

Another reason for being scared about quantum is that the crypto systems we know and love might no longer be safe. But fear not: Oded Regev (https://cims.nyu.edu/~regev/) will give lectures on lattices and cryptography, explaining, among other things, how to survive in a post-quantum world. Other exciting topics that Oded will touch upon are the Learning with errors (LWE) problem and fully homomorphic encryption.

S3CS 2018 will again be held at the beautiful venue Djuronaset in the Stockholm archipelago. A formal call for participation with more detailed information should appear at http://s3cs.csc.kth.se/ in February or so, but for now you can make note of the following tentative timeline:
- Mid-March: Application deadline
- Mid-April: Notification
- Sun Aug 5: Arrival
- Mon Aug 6 -- Fri Aug 10: Lectures
- Sat Aug 11: Departure

With best regards,
Jakob Nordstrom

Jakob Nordström, Associate Professor
School of Computer Science and Communication
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
http://www.csc.kth.se/~jakobn/