Program

Unfortunately, due to the current issues in the region of Bertinoro, the event is cancelled. 

Sunday, May 28

• 18:00-21:00 Check-in & Reception (Via Frangipane, 4)

• 19:30-21:00 Welcome Buffet (“Center Canteen” - Via Frangipane, 2)

Monday, May 29

• 07:30-09:15 Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

• 09:30-11.00 Session 1 (“Fresco Room” - La Rocca, Via Frangipane, 6) 

  • Juan Garay, Welcome & Blockchain Warm-Up

  • Krzysztof Pietrzak, Sustainable blockchains from Proof of Space and Time

• 11:00-11:30 Coffee break

• 11:30-12.30 Session 2

  • Vipul Goyal, Efficient MPC using Packed Secret Sharing

  • Victor Shoup, Lightweight Asynchronous Verifiable Secret Sharing with Optimal Resilience

• 12:45-13:45 Lunch (“Center Canteen”)

• 14:00-15:30 Session 3

  • Giulio Malavolta, New Developments in Timed Cryptography

  • Yashvanth Kondi, Witness-Succinct Universally-Composable SNARKs

• 15:30-16:00 Coffee break

• 16:00-18:00 Session 4

  • Vassilis Zikas, CryptoGT: Cryptography and Game Theory for the Analysis of Blockchains

  • Tal Rabin, Threshold Signatures

  • Paul Gerhart, Practical Schnorr Threshold Signatures without the Algebraic Group Model

  • Aris Pagourtzis, Designated-Verifier Linkable Ring Signatures

• 19:30-21:30 Dinner (local restaurant)

Tuesday, May 30

• 07:30-09:00 Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

• 09:15-10.45 Session 5

  • Peter Gazi, Practical Settlement Bounds for Longest-Chain Consensus

  • Matthias Fitzi, Fast Inclusion of Off-Chain Data in Nakamoto-Style Blockchains

• 10:45-11:15 Coffee break

• 11:15-12.45 Session 6

  • Christian Cachin, Distributed protocols with asymmetric trust

  • Hong-Sheng Zhou, Best-Possible Unpredictable Proof-of-Stake: An Impossibility and a Practical Design

  • Ittay Eyal, Interactive Authentication

• 13:00-14:00 Lunch (“Center Canteen”)

• 14.00-22.00 Excursion (including dinner)

Wednesday, May 31

• 07:30-09:00 Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

• 09:15-10.45 Session 7

  • Aggelos Kiayias, Resource Based Systems : Rethinking Multiparty Protocols from the Lens of Blockchain Technology

  • Dominique Shröder, Security of Adaptor Signatures and Constructions in the Standard Model

• 10:45-11:15 Coffee break

• 11:15-12.45 Session 8

  • Rutvik Patel, Concurrent Asynchronous Byzantine Agreement in Expected-Constant Rounds, Revisited

  • Tal Moran, Simpler Agreement Over Byzantine Gossip

  • Ran Cohen, Completeness Theorems for Adaptively Secure Broadcast

• 13:00-14:00 Lunch (“Center Canteen”)

• 14:15-15:45 Session 9

  • Georg Fuchsbauer and Michele Orrù, The security of Mimblewimble

  • Sebastian Faust, Blockchain Wallets

• 15:45-16:15 Coffee break

• 16:15-17:45 Session 10

  • Bernardo David, Large Scale MPC in the Blockchain Era

  • Cecilia Boschini, Some Thoughts on Distributed Signing from Lattices

  • Fang Song, Post-quantum blockchains

• 19:30-21:30 Dinner (local restaurant)

Thursday, June 1

• 07:30-09:00 Breakfast (“Center Canteen”)

• 09:15-10.45 Session 11

  • Mark Simkin, Foundations of Data Availability Sampling

  • Antigoni Polychroniadou, Prime Match: A Privacy-Preserving Inventory Matching System

• 10:45-11:15 Coffee break

• 11:15-12.15 Session 12

  • Christian Badertsher, On the Self-healing Property of Nakamoto-Consensus

  • Yu shen, Permissionless Clock Synchronization

• 12:30-13:30 Lunch (“Center Canteen”)