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 |
|---|---|---|
| 12/23/2020 | NOBODY | Winter Break Holiday |
| 12/30/2020 | NOBODY | Winter Break Holiday |
| 01/06/2021 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 01/13/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari spoke about his Ring of Gyges paper. |
| 01/20/2021 | NOBODY | Canceled for the Inauguration |
| 01/27/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD |
| 02/03/2021 | Kushal Babel | TBD |
| 02/10/2021 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on Ansible |
| 02/17/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on order fairness. |
| 02/24/2021 | Yan Ji | Yan gave a talk on Blockchain Denial of Service (BDoS) attacks. |
| 03/03/2021 | Iddo Bentov | Iddo gave a talk about mitigating issues with people uploading illegal data to Bitcoin |
| 03/10/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah will give a quick introduction to behavioral economics and evolutionary psychology. |
| 03/17/2021 | Tyler Kell | Tyler gave a talk about DeFi. |
| 03/24/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Alin Tomescu will be giving a talk on vector commitments |
| 03/31/2021 | Deepak Maram | Deepak and Jasleen will be giving a joint practice talk on CanDID |
| 04/07/2021 | Phil Daian | Phil will give a talk called “The Third Door: Is Bribery Amazing or What?” |
| 04/14/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari will be leading a discussion called NFT Design Fest |
| 04/21/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | Ethan discussed the VERY recent paper “On the Feasibility of Stealthily Introducing Vulnerabilities in Open-Source Software via Hypocrite Commits” and the drama around the Linux Kernel patches |
| 04/28/2021 | Kushal Babel | Kushal talked about proof systems (Coq, K framework) for formal verification. |
| 05/05/2021 | NOBODY | Cancelled in favor of giving more time for the CCS deadline |
| 05/12/2021 | Sishan Long | Soubhik Deb gave a talk on PoSAT Proof of Work Availability and Unpredictability without the Work |
| 05/19/2021 | Andrew Miller | This session is a crossover episode with Andrew Miller’s group at UIUC to lead a discussion and brainstorming session about NFTs. |
| 05/26/2021 | Tyler Kell | Tyler will be giving a talk about memes. |
| 06/02/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Fractal SNARK Tutorial: Bring a pen and paper. |
| 06/09/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah will be talking about her recent Forsage research. |
| 06/16/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD |
| 06/23/2021 | Yan Ji | Yashvanth Kondi will be giving a talk on “Proactive Threshold Wallets with Offline Devices.” |
| 06/30/2021 | Deepak Maram | TBD |
| 07/07/2021 | Phil Daian | TBD |
| 07/14/2021 | Ari Juels | TBD |
| 07/21/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD |
| 07/28/2021 | Kushal Babel | TBD |
| 08/04/2021 | Sishan Long | TBD |
| 08/11/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD |
| 08/18/2021 | Yan Ji | TBD |
| 08/25/2021 | Sarah Allen | TBD |