This is the group schedule page. Below is the calendar of group meetings. We currently meet on Tuesdays from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Bloomberg 397.
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. No interruptions, no tangents, and no questions are allowed during this time.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12/12/2022 | Kushal Babel | Kushal presented (1) an SGX vulnerability in the Secret Network; and (2) the experimental design and results of complete knowledge. |
| 12/19/2022 | Yan Ji | Yan invited Tiancheng Xie to present his paper entitled zkBridge: Trustless Cross-chain Bridges Made Practical. |
| 12/26/2022 | Cancelled | Christmas holiday. |
| 01/02/2023 | Cancelled | Happy New Year! |
| 01/09/2023 | Sishan Long | Sishan presented her internship work on cross-chain bridge designs under overlapping trust. |
| 01/16/2023 | Cancelled | IC3 Winter Retreat. |
| 01/23/2023 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on research agenda on mechanism design in blockchain research. |
| 01/30/2023 | System deconstruction | Breaking PBS. |
| 02/06/2023 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Carolina invited Jasleen to give a talk on her NDSS paper. |
| 02/13/2023 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on decentralized staking on Ethereum. |
| 02/20/2023 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on challenges of electronic voting for general elections. |
| 02/27/2023 | Cancelled | February break. |
| 03/06/2023 | Ari Juels | Ari gave a talk on new research ideas on private transaction executions inside TEEs. |
| 03/13/2023 | Kushal Babel | Kushal invited Soubhik Deb to give a talk on EigenLayer. |
| 03/20/2023 | Yan Ji | Yan presented SGXonerated: Finding (and Partially Fixing) Privacy Flaws in TEE-based Smart Contract Platforms Without Breaking the TEE. |
| 03/27/2023 | Yan Ji | Yan presented the Tendermint Light Client and potential attacks. |
| 04/03/2023 | Cancelled | Spring break. |
| 04/10/2023 | Sishan Long | Sishan invited Xuechao Wang to give a talk on his paper entitled Security Analysis of Filecoin’s Expected Consensus in the Byzantine vs Honest Model. |
| 04/17/2023 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on DeFi tax ideas. |
| 04/24/2023 | System deconstruction | Definitions of user welfare for transaction sequencing approaches. |
| 05/01/2023 | Tyler Kell | Tyler gave a talk on NFTs. |
| 05/08/2023 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Carolina gave a talk on backup leakage in WhatsApp and Signal. |
| 05/15/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 05/22/2023 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on [de]centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. |
| 05/29/2023 | Cancelled | Memorial Day. |
| 06/05/2023 | System deconstruction | Ethereum finality. |
| 06/12/2023 | Cancelled | IC3 Summer Camp! |
| 06/20/2023 | Andres Fabrega | Andres invited Ujval to talk about EVM-specific optimistic rollup design. |
| 06/27/2023 | Sarah Allen | Sarah gave a talk on DAO governence. |
| 07/04/2023 | Cancelled | Independence Day. |
| 07/11/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 07/18/2023 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion on blockchain application scenarios for LLM. |
| 07/25/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 08/01/2023 | Round Robin Session | |
| 08/22/2023 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on his work on DAG-based protocols including Bullshark and Narwhal |
| 08/29/2023 | Cancelled | SBC |
| 09/05/2023 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Angela Lu from Flashbots gave a tallk on MEV order flow |
| 09/11/2023 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on Privacy Pools |
| 09/18/2023 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on decentralization metrics in DAO |
| 09/25/2023 | Yan Ji | Yan gave a talk on MEV regulation |
| 10/02/2023 | Sarah Allen | Sarah invited Mike Neuder to give a talk on enshrining PBS. |
| 10/09/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 10/16/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 10/23/2023 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion on risks of oracles backed by LLMs |
| 10/30/2023 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on his recent paper entitled STROBE: Streaming Threshold Random Beacons |
| 11/06/2023 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on his recent work on low-latency DAG based consensus |
| 11/13/2023 | Round Robin Session | |
| 11/20/2023 | Round Robin Session | |
| 11/27/2023 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on real world assets in crypto and how it might develop in the future |
| 12/15/2023 | Yan Ji | Yan led a discussion on the article Platforms, Encryption, and the CFAA: The Case of WhatsApp v NSO Group and how it may apply to side channel attacks on Secret Network |
| 01/05/2024 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk the paper The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi |
| 01/12/2024 | Cancelled | |
| 01/22/2024 | Sarah Allen | Sarah invited Matt Stephenson from Pantera Capitol to gave a talk on DAO. |
| 01/29/2024 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion on what blockchains can do for AI |
| 02/19/2024 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna invited Pranav Garimidi to present his recent paper Centralization in Block Building and Proposer-Builder Separation |
| 03/11/2024 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on the interesting papers and projects at FC and ETHDenver. |
| 03/18/2024 | Round Robin Session | |
| 03/25/2024 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on the new evolving web3 projects, e.g., PolyMarket, EIP4844, Privacy Pool. |
| 04/08/2024 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on his recent papers on E2EE backup vulnerabilities. |
| 04/15/2024 | Yan Ji | |
| 04/22/2024 | Ari Juels | |
| 04/29/2024 | Mahimna Kelkar | |
| 05/06/2024 | Kushal Babel | |
| 05/13/2024 | Sarah Allen |