Rump Session
Call for Proposals
The FSE 2025 rump session will be great again! We solicit short and entertaining talks on any topic that is of interest to the FSE community. This includes groundbreaking results, results that don't break the ground, funny presentations, hilarious songs, and the like.
This year's rump session will again feature a quiz, and a prize for the winner.
To encourage you all to submit hilarious talks, there will be awards for the funniest talks, including:
- Best Rump Session Award;
- Salame Award: most incremental talk;
- Pinocchio Award: most overselling talk;
- Symmetry Award: most symmetric slides;
- Italy Award: most Italian talk.
Submission Guidelines
Time constraints: 1-4 minutes for serious talks, 1-6 minutes if very funny
Submission deadline: Tuesday 18 March 2025, 10:00:00 Rome time
Late submissions are allowed, but not guaranteed to be included. Nonetheless, you can update the PDF of your slides until 13:00:00 local time.
Format
Please submit your slides in PDF format. With your submission, you will need to include the following:
- Title
- Author(s)
- Requested duration (note that we may not be able to accommodate all requests)
- Category of presentation: dead-serious; serious, but also funny; or pure joke
Detailed Instructions
- The rump session will be entirely physical, we do not accept remote contributions.
- The rump session will be recorded.
- Please submit a single PDF. We require the speakers to submit at least a title slide even if they are not planning to prepare slides for the talk.
- Advertisement talks for job opportunities or conferences are restricted to a single slide, except if they include jokes.
A final reminder: do not play copyrighted music as part of your
talks. Yes, we're serious. Yes, we know it's a bummer. Since the rump
session is recorded and posted on YouTube, if you play copyrighted
music, the IACR YouTube account is at risk of being shut down. Please
don't put us at risk!
Rump Session Chairs
fse2025rump@iacr.org