Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society Boot Camp

Program

Proofs, Consensus, and Decentralizing Society

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Monday, Aug. 26 – Friday, Aug. 30, 2019

About

The goal of the boot camp is to break the ice between researchers involved in the diverse themes of this program: proofs, consensus, and their applications to society. The boot camp will include tutorials and surveys of the main research questions and tools within each theme, with an emphasis on the connections and interactions across the themes. This will ensure that participants are well-equipped for fruitful discussions and collaborations throughout the semester.

Chairs/Organizers

Alessandro Chiesa (UC Berkeley; chair)

Eli Ben-Sasson (StarkWare)

Yael Kalai (MIT and Microsoft Research)

Rafael Pass (Tel-Aviv University and Cornell Tech)

Mike Walfish (New York University)

Invited Participants

Ittai Abraham (VMware), Yehuda Afek (Tel Aviv University), Gal Arnon (Weizmann Institute of Science), Nicholas Arnosti (Columbia University), Eli Ben-Sasson (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Amey Bhangale (The Weizmann Institute of Science), Dan Boneh (Stanford University), Joseph Bonneau (NYU), Jonathan Bootle (IBM Research- Zurich), Benedikt Bünz (Stanford University), Ran Canetti (Boston University), Alessandro Chiesa (UC Berkeley), Vincent Danos (CNRS), Srini Devadas (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Georg Fuchsbauer (INRIA), Eli Gafni (UCLA), Chaya Ganesh (Aarhus University), Prahladh Harsha (TIFR), Christopher Hickey (University of Warwick), Justin Holmgren (Princeton University), Yuval Ishai (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Muhammad Ishaq (University of Edinburgh), Konstantin Kakaes (MIT Technology Review), Yael Kalai (MSR), Yun Lu (University of Edinburgh), Mike Luby (ICSI), Giulio Malavolta (Friedrich-Alexander University (Erlangen-Nürnberg)), Dahlia Malkhi (Calibra), Sarah Meiklejohn (UCL), Claudio Orlandi (Aarhus University), Rafael Pass (Cornell University), Oxana Poburinnaya (Boston University), Julien Prat (CNRS), Alex Psomas (Carnegie Mellon University), Omer Reingold (Stanford University), Guy Rothblum (Weizmann Institute), Muli Safra (Tel Aviv University), Amit Sahai (UCLA), Linda Schilling (Ecole Polytechnique), Clara Shikhelman (Tel Aviv University), Justin Thaler (Georgetown University), Eran Tromer (Tel Aviv University), Muthu Venkitasubramaniam (University of Rochester), Mike Walfish (NYU), Eylon Yogev (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology), Vassilis Zikas (University of Edinburgh)