What are the legal aspects of electronic voting? What technical mechanisms are, or should be, in place to ensure legal compliance and to earn the trust of voters? Dirk Pattinson from ANU, will discuss the current state of electronic voting across the globe, and explore an approach to universal verifiability that enables the public to convince themselves of the accuracy of electronic vote counting.

Lunch will be provided

About the speaker

After receiving MSc (Mathematics) and PhD (Computer Science) from Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Dirk held academic positions at the University of Leicester and Imperial College London (both UK) before taking up his present position of Associate Professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, where he is currently Associate Director (Research) at the Research School of Computer Science. Dirk held visiting positions at the University of Marseille (France), the Technical University of Vienna (Austria), the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Germany) and the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge (UK).