Rump Session
Call for contributions
Do you have breaking news, progress reports, or other topics of interest to the cryptographic community? Can you keep your talk short* and entertaining? The Rump Session is where people show off their talents, present breaking news, humorous takes on the subject, present their rejected ASIACRYPT submission to a rowdy** audience, or present work under submission in the hope of influencing program committees.
*The actual length of your talk will be decided by the rump session chair, who accepts beer and kangaroo steak bribes for extensions.
**The audience is encouraged to be rowdy.
Submission Guidelines
Time constraints: 1-5 minutes, 6 minutes if very funny
Submission deadline: Wednesday, December 10, 12:00 UTC+11 (noon in Melbourne)
Awards
To encourage you all to send in and give humorous talks, we will be awarding the following prizes to our deserving authors: “Best Musical Performance”, “Funniest Presentation of a Serious Result”, “Best Funny Talk”. In order to ensure a fair democratic process in selecting the award winners, we will be running a state-of-the-art electronic voting protocol with cryptographic agility built on the latest advances in 3-out-of-3 threshold cryptography! A committee of election trustees will be chosen by popular acclamation and each trustee will hold a key share. In case of key share loss or other unforeseen difficulties in computing the final tally, the election protocol will be updated on the fly at the discretion of the rump session chair.
Format
Your slides must be submitted as a PDF, which we will collect together to avoid laptop changes during the presentation. If you plan to give a talk without slides, or if you do not have slides ready yet, please prepare and submit one slide with your name and talk title. If you have a sufficiently entertaining reason why you should be exempted from this requirement, let us know in your submission. If your proposed submission has any special requirements — e.g. musical instruments, extra microphones, setting up magical trick paraphernalia, etc. — please contact the rump session chair and we will let you know what is or is not possible.
Platform
The Asiacrypt'25 Rump Session will not be recorded by the IACR! However, slides will be made available online to the wider world afterwards. The act of submitting will be taken as your consent to these terms. Note that it is your responsibility as a Rump Session Contender that no plagiarism or copyright infringements take place. Make sure you are close to the stage near the appointed time.
Detailed Instructions
When submitting your slides, remember to specify the length of your presentation. Any submissions not following these guidelines may be rejected***. Some submissions may have to be rejected or shortened because of time constraints. Please remember that the Rump Session is meant for short and entertaining presentations. We will only be accepting a limited number of talks related to conference/meeting announcements or job adverts since these types of announcements are now well served by the IACR's calendar of events and open positions in cryptology pages. However, if you want to submit one slide only for such events then we may display these during the break of the Rump Session.
***The rump session chair reserves the right to accept submissions not following these guidelines after heavy modifications…
Bernardo David
Rump Session Chair
IT University of Copenhagen
Denmark