Events and Activities

Internal Events

External Events

(Conferences, Workshops, Tutorial)

The Members of NESTiD have been involved with the organization of the following events outside Durham.

Workshop Series

BlockSecSDN Workshop Series
- BlockSecSDN 2023
  - 3rd International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2023), May 28 – June 1, Rome, Italy
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
  - (https://icc2023.ieee-icc.org/workshop/ws-11-workshop-blocksecsdn-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities)
- BlockSecSDN 2022
  - 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2022), May 16 – 20, Seoul, South Korea
    
    Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
    
    (https://icc2022.ieee-icc.org/program/workshops#ws-2)
- BlockSecSDN 2021
  - 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Secure Software-defined Networking in Smart Communities in conjunction with IEEE International Conference on Communications (IEEE ICC 2022), 6-9 July 2020 – Toronto, Canada
  - Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla
  - https://infocom2020.ieee-infocom.org/workshop-blockchain-secure-software-defined-networking-smart-communities

BlockCPS Workshop Series
- BlockCPS 2023
  - 3rd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems (Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 23rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2023) , 1-4 May, 2023 -Bangalore, India
    
    Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
    
    (https://sites.google.com/view/blockcps2023/)
- BlockCPS 2022
  - 2nd International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems ;(Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 15th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2021), December 6-9, 2022 – Portland, Oregon, USA
    
    Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
    
    (https://ucc-conference.org)
- BlockCPS 2021
  - 1st International Workshop on Blockchain for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems ;(Adhering to Security, Trust and Integrity) in conjunction with 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (IEEE/ACM UCC 2021), December 6 – 8 2021- Leicester, UK
    
    Workshop Chairs: Gagangeet Aujla and Anish Jindal
    
    Publicity Chair: Ehsan Toreini
    
    (https://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/UCC2021)
SC2 Workshop Series
- SC2 202023
  - 4th IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2) in conjunction with 24th IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2023), June 12 – 15, 2023, Boston, USA.
    
    Workshop chairs: Anish Jindal
    
    Further details and link to submission: https://sites.google.com/view/sc2-wowmom2023/home
- SC2 2022
  - 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC²)
  - in conjunction with 23rd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2022), June 14 – 17, 2021 Belfast, United Kingdom
  - Workshop Chair: Anish Jindal
  - (https://sites.google.com/view/sc2-wowmom2022/home)
Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs Workshop Series

Invited Talks and Guest Lectures:

The Members of NESTiD presented invited talks and guest lecture outside Durham.

Activity	Details	Date
Invited Talk	Anish Jindal presented a talk on “Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing Seminar” series at the University of Glasgow.	September 2022
Keynote Talk	Thomas Erlebach presented a talk on “Explorable Uncertainty and Untrusted Predictions” at the MAPSP 2022 (15th Workshop on Models and Algorithms for Planning and Scheduling).	June 2022
Keynote Talk	Amitabh Trehan presented a talk on Self-healing Networks at the 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC²) in conjunction with 23rd IEEE International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (IEEE WoWMoM 2022), Belfast, United Kingdom	14th June 2022
Invited Talk	Anish Jindal delivered an invited talk in Short term training program on “Tomorrow’s Electrical Power Grid” for SFIT Mumbai, India.	03-07 January 2022
Invited Talk	Thirupathaiah Vasantam delivered a talk on “A throughput optimal scheduling policy for a quantum switch” at University of York, UK	4th April 2022
Tutorial	Amitabh Trehan presented a tutorial on Self-healing Distributed Algorithms at the 10th The Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC) 2021 (https://ladc.lisha.ufsc.br/ladc2021/Tutorial).	23rd November 2021
Keynote Talk	Gagangeet Aujla provided a keynote talk on Edge-Cloud Interplay using Software-defined Networking for Smart City Applications at 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Smart Computing for Smart Cities (SC2) in conjunction with IEEE WoWMoM 2021.	7th June 2021
KeynoteTalk	Gagangeet Aujla provided a keynote talk on EVaaS: Energy Trading in SDN-enabled Smart Transportation System at SOFA 2020 – 9th International Workshop on Soft Computing Applications, Arad, Romania	29th November 2020

Event	Details
NESTiD Mini Seminar (Virtual)	Online mini seminar held on Thursday 25 February 2021 between 10-12 am. Participants: Tom Friedetzky, Ioannis Ivrissimtzis, Wanqing Tu, Gagangeet Aujla, Ehsan Toreini, Amitabh Trehan, George Mertzios, Iain Stewart, Daniel Paulusma, Konrad Dabrowski, Barnaby Martim, Matthew Johnson, and Stamos Katsigiannis.