Group Schedule

This is the group schedule page. Below is the calendar of group meetings. We currently meet on Tuesdays from 4:30-5:30 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
04/28/2025 Jasleen Malvai
04/21/2025 Amy Zhao
04/14/2025 Sarah Allen
04/07/2025 James Austgen
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.