The IEEE Reliability Society is now soliciting papers for Hackademic, to be held June 29-July 1, 2012, at the Clayton Hall Conference Center at the University of Delaware, in Newark, Delaware.

The first annual Hackademic Conference aims to bridge the gap between information security researchers operating inside academia and independent researchers often referred to as “hackers.” Hackademic exits to facilitate communication and idea sharing by bringing these two communities together in one place. Hackademic will cover the latest security research as well as topics of interest to research professionals

Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to:

Hardware analysis
Virtualization-based security
Infrastructure and SCADA security
Attacks and defenses for cloud-based applications
Exploit mitigation
Vulnerability discovery techniques
Novel vulnerabilities and attacks
Observations from academia
Technology transfer
Case studies in security startups