This is the group schedule page. Below is the calendar of group meetings. We currently meet on Tuesdays from 4:00-5:00 p.m.
Meetings begin with a quick scrum: 30 seconds to 1 minute per-person (this is a hard time cap at 1 minute, no more allowed) description of what they did last week and what they’re working on.
REMEMBER: you must either get a speaker, or prepare a 20 minute talk with slides on either your work or someone else’s.
See the previous speakers page for previous speaker bios + archives of the previous schedules for prior semesters.
| Date | Assignee | Topic | |
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| 10/27/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading TBA | |
| 10/20/2025 | Amy Zhao | ||
| 10/13/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading TBA | |
| 10/06/2025 | Jasleen Malvai | ||
| 09/29/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading TBA | |
| 09/22/2025 | Sarah Allen | ||
| 09/15/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading TBA | |
| 09/08/2025 |
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Sam will talk about attacks on the Fiat-Shamir transformation, covering “How to Prove False Statements: Practical Attacks on Fiat-Shamir” and “Towards a White-Box Secure Fiat-Shamir Transformation“ | |
| 09/01/2025 | Canceled | AriDG is canceled for Labor Day. | |
| 08/25/2025 | Canceled | AriDG is canceled to prepare for the USENIX deadline. | |
| 08/18/2025 | Circle: Arc Network | Discussion with Circle. Required reading: Arc: An open Layer-1 blockchain purpose-built for stablecoin finance | |
| 08/11/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading: Accountable Liveness. Add your question to the questions document.
Andres will practice his talk on “Mitigating Injection Attacks against E2EE Applications via View-Based Partitioning” prior to our Accountable Liveness discussion. |
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| 08/04/2025 | Canceled | AriDG is canceled due to SBC 2025. | |
| 07/28/2025 | Scrum Session/Bring-Your-Own-Topic | We hosted a meta-discussion of AriDG and the lab as a whole. | |
| 07/21/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading: Jigsaw: Doubly Private Smart Contracts. Add your question to the questions document. | |
| 07/14/2025 | Dani Vilardell |
Dani will present “Efficient, Coercion-free and Universally Verifiable Blockchain-based Voting” by Tassos Dimitriou, which describes a coercion-resistant voting protocol construction. | |
| 07/07/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading: BitVM2: Bridging Bitcoin to Second Layers. Add your question to the questions document. | |
| 06/30/2025 | Ujval Mistra | Ujval will lead a discussion about strategic behavior in the attention economy. Reference: Performative Power | |
| 06/23/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading: “Kite: How to Delegate Voting Power Privately”. Add your questions to the questions document. | |
| 06/16/2025 | Andres Fabrega | Andres led a discussion about “Insecurity Through Obscurity: Veiled Vulnerabilities in Closed-Source Contracts“. | |
| 06/09/2025 | Canceled | AriDG is canceled due to the IC3 Blockchain Camp. | |
| 06/02/2025 | Cryptography Review Session | Required reading: Section 5: Simulating the View of Malicious Adversaries – Zero Knowledge (17 pages), from “How to Simulate It – A Tutorial on the Simulation Proof Technique”. | |
| 05/26/2025 | Canceled | Memorial Day | |
| 05/19/2025 | Cryptography Review Session | We’ll review how to write formal cryptographic proofs. Required reading: The first four chapters (14 pages) of “How to Simulate It – A Tutorial on the Simulation Proof Technique”. | |
| 05/12/2025 | Canceled |
AriDG is canceled due to S&P 2025 and other conflicts. | |
| 05/05/2025 | Amy Zhao |
Amy led a discussion about the US crypto/blockchain regulatory landscape. | |
| 04/28/2025 | Jasleen Malvai |
Jasleen will present “Black-box Approaches to Authenticated Dictionaries: New Constructions and Lower Bounds.” | |
| 04/21/2025 | Sarah Allen | Sarah covered some recent Ethereum protocol and ecosystem research proposals. | |
| 04/14/2025 | Canceled | Canceled due to a meeting conflict. | |
| 04/07/2025 | James Austgen | James talked about Ethereum testing and development dynamics. | |
| 03/31/2025 | Canceled | Canceled due to Spring Break. | |
| 03/24/2025 | Samuel Breckenridge | Sam will present a comparison between web and web3 authentication mechanisms and discuss issues related to authentication. | |
| 03/17/2025 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion about the concepts unifying our Complete Knowledge, Liquefaction, and Ironclad Finance work. | |
| 03/10/2025 | Dani Vilardell |
Dani explained ways to make zero-knowledge proofs more efficient from several angles, starting from the basics. | |
| 03/03/2025 | Ujval Misra | Ujval gave a talk titled “From Athens to Algorithms: Situating Blockchain Governance in Political Philosophy.” | |
| 02/24/2025 | Andres Fabrega | Andres led a discussion about “Some things we’re excited about in crypto for 2025”. | |
| 02/17/2025 | Canceled | Canceled due to February Break. | |
| 02/10/2025 | Round Robin Session | Add your slides to a shared document (this will be sent out to you in the future). | |
| 02/03/2025 | Dani Vilardell | Dani will present adversarial examples over constrained domains in machine learning and why Props will be different. | |
| 01/27/2025 | Mahimna Kelkar |
Mahimna will practice his job talk. | |
| 01/20/2025 | Canceled | Canceled due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day. | |
| 01/13/2025 | Sarah Allen |
Sarah will be discuss the blog post/talk “Seeing like a protocol” from Barnabé Monot. | |
| 01/06/2025 | Canceled | Canceled due to the IC3 Winter Retreat. | |
| 12/30/2024 | Canceled | Canceled due to New Year’s Eve. | |
| 12/23/2024 | Canceled | Canceled due to Christmas. | |
| 12/16/2024 | Feedback Session | A discussion of the AriDG format/potential improvements/potential future speakers. | |
| 12/02/2024 | Samuel Breckenridge | Sam presented a survey of the use of blockchain technologies in AI/ML. | |
| 11/25/2024 | James Austgen | James started a discussion about agentic AI-powered investment DAOs. Is it possible for one to be successful? | |
| 11/18/2024 | Ittay Eyal | Ittay presented Colordag, a PoW blockchain design where following the protocol is an “epsilon-sure” Nash equilibrium, that is, almost always a Nash equilibrium. | |
| 11/11/2024 | Canceled | Canceled due to the S&P deadline. | |
| 11/04/2024 | Round Robin Session | 3-5 minute lightning talk per person to talk about something, anything. | |
| 10/28/2024 | Andres Fabrega | Andres presented a system deconstruction of Apple Intelligence. | |
| 10/21/2024 | Ari Juels | Ari presented an idea for a privacy-preserving LLM training framework which uses TEEs to mediate the use of private, user-controlled “deep web” data. | |
| 10/14/2024 | Canceled | Canceled due to the fall break. | |
| 10/07/2024 | Isaac Sheff | Sarah invited Isaac Sheff from Heliax/Anoma to speak about Anoma’s cross-chain design. Optional reading: Cross-Chain Integrity with Controller Labels and Endorsement | |
| 09/30/2024 | David Wells | Amy will bring David Wells to talk about Enclave Markets, a product of Ava Labs which is a “fully encrypted exchange to protect against MEV, front-running, and slippage with decentralized custody you can trust.” | |
| 09/23/2024 | James Austgen | James talked about Plurality, an open-source book whose goal is to support democracy through technology. | |
| 09/16/2024 | Nir Chemaya and Robert McLaughlin | Mahimna brought Nir and Robert from UCSB to talk about CLVR: Ordering of Transactions on AMMs. | |
| 09/09/2024 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk about Arbitrum’s permissionless challenge protocol. | |
| 09/02/2024 | Canceled | ||
| 08/26/2024 | Mahimna Kelkar | We explained the lab’s projects to Dani and Sam. Mahimna began giving a talk about Arbitrum’s permissionless challenge protocol. | |
| 08/19/2024 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion about DAOs and attacks on them. | |
| 08/12/2024 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk about attacks on password managers which allow users to share credentials with others in an organization. | |
| 08/05/2024 | Cancelled | Cancelled for SBC | |
| 07/29/2024 | Round Robin Session | Everyone gets to present for 4 minutes, each followed by 1 minute of discussion/questions. | |
| 07/22/2024 | Jay Yu | Jay explained the responsibilities of being a voting delegate for Uniswap governance. | |
| 07/15/2024 | Kushal Babel | Kushal led a discussion about “building like Satoshi” in which we discussed how cryptocurrency is used and how values have shifted over time. | |
| 07/08/2024 | Sarah Allen | Sarah led a discussion on Vitalik’s updated Endgame 2.0 post. | |
| 07/01/2024 | Discussion | We discussed the Edge Esmeralda crypto workshop, including its format, what we learned and possible improvements. | |
| 06/24/2024 | Cancelled | ||
| 06/17/2024 | Scrum Session | Yan passed on the role of AriDG czar. | |
| 06/10/2024 | Cancelled | ||
| 06/03/2024 | Discussion | We discussed how to improve the structure of AriDG meetings. |