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 |
|---|---|---|
| 06/23/2025 | Dani Vilardell |
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| 06/16/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading TBA |
| 06/09/2025 | Ujval Misra | |
| 06/02/2025 | Reading Review Session | Required reading TBA |
| 05/26/2025 | Andres Fabrega | |
| 05/19/2025 | Proof session |
We’ll review how to write formal cryptographic proofs. Required reading <TBD, remind me if it’s after 5/8…> |
| 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. |