This page lists speakers that have given talks at our group meetings in reverse chronological order, as well as a short blurb on their topic of choice. The Previous Schedules section below lists the schedules for previous semesters.
Previous Schedules
Below you can find schedules for previous semesters.
| Date | Assignee | Topic | 
|---|---|---|
| 05/27/2024 | Cancelled | |
| 05/20/2024 | Kushal Babel | |
| 05/13/2024 | Sarah Allen | |
| 05/06/2024 | Mahimna Kelkar | |
| 04/22/2024 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion on illiquid staking. | 
| 04/15/2024 | Yan Ji | Yan invited Peiyao Sheng to present the projects at Witness Chain. | 
| 04/08/2024 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on his recent papers on E2EE backup vulnerabilities. | 
| 03/25/2024 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on the new evolving web3 projects, e.g., PolyMarket, EIP4844, Privacy Pools. | 
| 03/18/2024 | Round Robin Session | |
| 03/11/2024 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on the interesting papers and projects at FC and ETHDenver. | 
| 02/19/2024 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna invited Pranav Garimidi to present his recent paper Centralization in Block Building and Proposer-Builder Separation | 
| 01/29/2024 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion on what blockchains can do for AI | 
| 01/22/2024 | Sarah Allen | Sarah invited Matt Stephenson from Pantera Capitol to gave a talk on DAO. | 
| 01/12/2024 | Cancelled | |
| 01/05/2024 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk the paper The Vulnerable Nature of Decentralized Governance in DeFi | 
| 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 | 
| 11/27/2023 | James Austgen | James gave a talk on real world assets in crypto and how it might develop in the future | 
| 11/20/2023 | Round Robin Session | |
| 11/13/2023 | Round Robin Session | |
| 11/06/2023 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on his recent work on low-latency DAG based consensus | 
| 10/30/2023 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on his recent paper entitled STROBE: Streaming Threshold Random Beacons | 
| 10/23/2023 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion on risks of oracles backed by LLMs | 
| 10/16/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 10/09/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 10/02/2023 | Sarah Allen | Sarah invited Mike Neuder to give a talk on enshrining PBS. | 
| 09/25/2023 | Yan Ji | Yan gave a talk on MEV regulation | 
| 09/18/2023 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on decentralization metrics in DAO | 
| 09/11/2023 | James Austgen | James gave a talk on Privacy Pools | 
| 09/05/2023 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Angela Lu from Flashbots gave a tallk on MEV order flow | 
| 08/29/2023 | Cancelled | SBC | 
| 08/22/2023 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on his work on DAG-based protocols including Bullshark and Narwhal | 
| 08/01/2023 | Round Robin Session | |
| 07/25/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 07/18/2023 | Ari Juels | Ari led a discussion on blockchain application scenarios for LLM. | 
| 07/11/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 07/04/2023 | Cancelled | Independence Day. | 
| 06/27/2023 | Sarah Allen | Sarah gave a talk on DAO governence. | 
| 06/20/2023 | Andres Fabrega | Andres invited Ujval to talk about EVM-specific optimistic rollup design. | 
| 06/12/2023 | Cancelled | IC3 Summer Camp! | 
| 06/05/2023 | System deconstruction | Ethereum finality. | 
| 05/29/2023 | Cancelled | Memorial Day. | 
| 05/22/2023 | James Austgen | James gave a talk on [de]centralization in the Ethereum ecosystem. | 
| 05/15/2023 | Cancelled | |
| 05/08/2023 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Carolina gave a talk on backup leakage in WhatsApp and Signal. | 
| 05/01/2023 | Tyler Kell | Tyler gave a talk on NFTs. | 
| 04/24/2023 | System deconstruction | Definitions of user welfare for transaction sequencing approaches. | 
| 04/17/2023 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on DeFi tax ideas. | 
| 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. | 
| 04/03/2023 | Cancelled | Spring break. | 
| 03/27/2023 | Yan Ji | Yan presented the Tendermint Light Client and potential attacks. | 
| 03/20/2023 | Yan Ji | Yan presented SGXonerated: Finding (and Partially Fixing) Privacy Flaws in TEE-based Smart Contract Platforms Without Breaking the TEE. | 
| 03/13/2023 | Kushal Babel | Kushal invited Soubhik Deb to give a talk on EigenLayer. | 
| 03/06/2023 | Ari Juels | Ari gave a talk on new research ideas on private transaction executions inside TEEs. | 
| 02/27/2023 | Cancelled | February break. | 
| 02/20/2023 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on challenges of electronic voting for general elections. | 
| 02/13/2023 | James Austgen | James gave a talk on decentralized staking on Ethereum. | 
| 02/06/2023 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Carolina invited Jasleen to give a talk on her NDSS paper. | 
| 01/30/2023 | System deconstruction | Breaking PBS. | 
| 01/23/2023 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on research agenda on mechanism design in blockchain research. | 
| 01/16/2023 | Cancelled | IC3 Winter Retreat. | 
| 01/09/2023 | Sishan Long | Sishan presented her internship work on cross-chain bridge designs under overlapping trust. | 
| 01/02/2023 | Cancelled | Happy New Year! | 
| 12/26/2022 | Cancelled | Christmas holiday. | 
| 12/19/2022 | Yan Ji | Yan invited Tiancheng Xie to present his paper entitled zkBridge: Trustless Cross-chain Bridges Made Practical. | 
| 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. | 
| 12/05/2022 | Deepak Maram | Deepak’s B Exam. | 
| 11/28/2022 | Everyone | Attempt to break something. | 
| 11/22/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minute lightning talk per person to talk about something, anything. | 
| 11/15/2022 | Andres Fabrega | Andres gave a talk on On One-way Functions and Kolmogorov Complexity | 
| 11/08/2022 | Deepak Maram | Deepak invited Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias to give a talk entitled The Sui Smart-Contract Platform: A Technical Introduction. | 
| 11/01/2022 | James Richard Austgen | James gave a talk on Bitcoin and its evolution. | 
| 10/25/2022 | Carolina Ortega Perez | Carolinar gave a talk on the whistleblowing project to disincentivize collusion in fair ordering protocols. | 
| 10/18/2022 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on Arweave and discussed research opportunities and challenges in permanent storage. | 
| 10/11/2022 | Cancelled | |
| 10/04/2022 | Ari Juels | Feedback on the NFT Gallery | 
| 09/27/2022 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna invited Joachim Neu to give a talk entitled Ethereum After The Merge: Is It Still Secure? based on a series of his work [NNT21, NNT22, D’ANNT22]. | 
| 09/20/2022 | Phil Daian | Phil gave a talk on MEV boost. Recommended resources: All SBC MEV workshop talks; Builder innovation after the merge: Slides, Video; Vitalik talk about decentralization: Slides, Video, Blog post | 
| 09/13/2022 | Yan Ji | Yan gave a talk on Vireo, a practical verifiable reputation system | 
| 08/16/2022 | Sarah Allen | Feedback on the IC3 Summer Camp | 
| 08/09/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minute lightning talk per person to talk about something, anything. | 
| 08/02/2022 | Canceled | Canceled for IC3 Summer Camp | 
| 07/26/2022 | Tyler Kell | Tyler walked through the Trail of bits report : Are Blockchains Decentralized? | 
| 07/19/2022 | Canceled | Ari on vacation | 
| 07/12/2022 | Sishan Long | Sishan led a survey on how to do good research. | 
| 07/05/2022 | Nobody | Canceled for July 4. | 
| 06/28/2022 | Kushal Babel | Kushal gave a talk on his recent paper SHORTSTACK: Distributed, Fault-tolerant, Oblivious Data Access | 
| 06/21/2022 | Nobody | Canceled for NFT NYC | 
| 06/14/2022 | Deepak Maram | Deepak gave a talk on an optimal authentication mechanism paper he and Mahimna are working on. | 
| 06/07/2022 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna presented on the Balls and Bins problem | 
| 05/31/2022 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen gave a practice talk on her recent work at Meta. | 
| 05/24/2022 | Phil Daian | Phil gave a review of the recent Decentralized Society: Finding Web3’s Soul paper. | 
| 05/17/2022 | Ari Juels | Sunoo Park came to brainstorm and discuss research topics with the group. | 
| 05/10/2022 | Yan Ji | Yuncong Hu from Berkeley gave a talk on Decentralized Ledgers Design and Applications. | 
| 05/03/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minute lightning talk per person to talk about something, anything. | 
| 04/26/2022 | Nate Rothschild | Tyler Kell gave an overview talk on all of IC3’s research and solicited feedback for the content of the talk. | 
| 04/19/2022 | Sarah Allen | Sarah gave a talk on Money Laundering in the Contemporary Art Market X NFTs | 
| 04/12/2022 | Tyler Kell | Sebastian Büergel from Hopr Network will be coming to give a talk about the research issues they have in their work. | 
| 04/05/2022 | Nobody | Spring Break | 
| 03/29/2022 | Jasleen Malvai | Mikerah Quentin-Collins will be presenting on MPC and related research ideas. | 
| 03/22/2022 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on cryptology and historical crypto-schemes. | 
| 03/15/2022 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk about pi and some of its fun properties. | 
| 03/08/2022 | Everyone | Round Robin AriDG, 3-5 minutes per person to talk about something, anything. | 
| 03/01/2022 | Deepak Maram | TBD | 
| 02/22/2022 | Kushal Babel | TBD | 
| 02/15/2022 | Nobody | Skipped this week | 
| 02/08/2022 | Ari Juels | Ari gave a talk on his testimony in congress | 
| 02/01/2022 | Phil Daian | TBD | 
| 01/25/2022 | Yan Ji | Yan has a speaker from Dawn’s group to talk about Zk snark research. | 
| 01/18/2022 | Nate Rothschild | We brainstormed heuristics for identifying malicious NFTs from benign ones. | 
| 01/11/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah presented on the IRB approval process and we discussed research ethics. | 
| 01/04/2021 | Nobody | We discussed administrativa and organization for meetings for the year. | 
| 12/07/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Tom Yurek will discuss his recent NDSS paper: “hbACSS: How to Robustly Share Many Secrets“ | 
| 11/30/2021 | Tyler Kell | Patricio Worthalter gave a talk on the Proof of Attendance Protocol. | 
| 11/23/2021 | Sishan Long | Florian Suri-Payer gave a talk on Basil Breaking up BFT with ACID Transactions. | 
| 11/16/2021 | Kushal Babel | Kushal presented a recent SOSP paper about Kauri: scalable BFT consensus. | 
| 11/09/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari invited Tyler, who gave a talk on NFT.NYC. | 
| 11/02/2021 | Deepak Maram | Deepak invited Mahimna, who gave a talk on improvements in MPC. | 
| 10/26/2021 | Deepak Maram | Deepak forgot to prepare anything and we had a brainstorming discussion about NFTs. | 
| 10/19/2021 | Phil Daian | Phil gave an introductory talk in the “metaverse” and virtual reality. We used spatial.io for this. | 
| 10/12/2021 | Nate Rothschild + Ruth Goutkovitch | Nate & Ruth will be giving a presentation based on the work they’ve done for their internship. | 
| 10/05/2021 | Yan Ji | Zach Lieberman will join us again for a discussion about NFTs. | 
| 09/28/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | Zach Lieberman will join us for a discussion about NFTs. | 
| 09/21/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah is hosting a brainstorming session on NFTs. | 
| 09/14/2021 | CANCELED | N/A | 
| 09/07/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen gave a talk on mental poker. | 
| 08/31/2021 | Tyler Kell | Blaine Malone will be giving a talk on EIP-2981 and NFT Royalties. | 
| 08/24/2021 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on the Latency, Thoroughput, Block Size and Decentralization tradeoffs. | 
| 08/18/2021 | N/A | CANCELED in favor of S&P submission | 
| 08/11/2021 | Kushal Babel | Kushal talked about Charlotte: Composable Authenticated Distributed Data Structures. | 
| 08/04/2021 | Ari Juels | NFT Design session. | 
| 07/28/2021 | NOBODY | Canceled in favor of the IC3 Summer camp | 
| 07/21/2021 | Phil Daian | Phil gave a talk on MEV related topics. | 
| 07/14/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | This meeting is canceled for Ethan’s B Exam. Attend the exam! | 
| 07/07/2021 | Nobody | The group had a brief discussion about MEV, and takeaways from the MEV virtual summit the previous week. | 
| 06/30/2021 | Deepak Maram | Aravind spoke about his recent paper “Lockable Signatures for Blockchains: Scriptless Scripts for All Signatures.” | 
| 06/23/2021 | Yan Ji | Yashvanth Kondi will be giving a talk on “Proactive Threshold Wallets with Offline Devices.” | 
| 06/16/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD | 
| 06/09/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah will be talking about her recent Forsage research. | 
| 06/02/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Fractal SNARK Tutorial: Bring a pen and paper. | 
| 05/26/2021 | Tyler Kell | Tyler will be giving a talk about memes. | 
| 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. | 
| 05/12/2021 | Sishan Long | Soubhik Deb gave a talk on PoSAT Proof of Work Availability and Unpredictability without the Work | 
| 05/05/2021 | NOBODY | Cancelled in favor of giving more time for the CCS deadline | 
| 04/28/2021 | Kushal Babel | Kushal talked about proof systems (Coq, K framework) for formal verification. | 
| 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 | 
| 04/14/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari will be leading a discussion called NFT Design Fest | 
| 04/07/2021 | Phil Daian | Phil will give a talk called “The Third Door: Is Bribery Amazing or What?” | 
| 03/31/2021 | Deepak Maram | Deepak and Jasleen will be giving a joint practice talk on CanDID | 
| 03/24/2021 | Jasleen Malvai | Alin Tomescu will be giving a talk on vector commitments | 
| 03/17/2021 | Tyler Kell | Tyler gave a talk about DeFi. | 
| 03/10/2021 | Sarah Allen | Sarah will give a quick introduction to behavioral economics and evolutionary psychology. | 
| 03/03/2021 | Iddo Bentov | Iddo gave a talk about mitigating issues with people uploading illegal data to Bitcoin | 
| 02/24/2021 | Yan Ji | Yan gave a talk on Blockchain Denial of Service (BDoS) attacks. | 
| 02/17/2021 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna gave a talk on order fairness. | 
| 02/10/2021 | Sishan Long | Sishan gave a talk on Ansible | 
| 02/03/2021 | Kushal Babel | TBD | 
| 01/27/2021 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD | 
| 01/20/2021 | NOBODY | Canceled for the Inauguration | 
| 01/13/2021 | Ari Juels | Ari spoke about his Ring of Gyges paper. | 
| 01/06/2021 | Deepak Maram | TBD | 
| 12/30/2020 | NOBODY | Winter Break Holiday | 
| 12/23/2020 | NOBODY | Winter Break Holiday | 
| 12/16/2020 | Phil Daian | Phil led another discussion on ethics | 
| 12/09/2020 | NOBODY | Canceled in favor of IC3 Winter Retreat | 
| 12/02/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen gave a talk on “Meal Prepping Healthy SNARKS.” | 
| 11/25/2020 | NOBODY | Thanksgiving Holiday | 
| 11/18/2020 | Tyler Kell | George Kappos and Haaroon Yousaf will be talking about their recent lightning network research. | 
| 11/11/2020 | Sarah Allen | Phil will be leading a discussion on the ethics of releasing research that has direct financial implications to blockchain users. | 
| 11/04/2020 | Iddo Bentov | Iddo will present on fair secret sharing. | 
| 10/28/2020 | Yan Ji | Yunhao Zhang will be talking about his new OSDI paper: Byzantine Ordered Consensus without Byzantine Oligarchy. | 
| 10/21/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | Mahimna will be running a list of 10 exciting research ideas for group discussion. | 
| 10/14/2020 | Sishan Long | Jun-You Liu will be talking about Stablecoins 2.0: Economic Foundations and Risk-based Models. | 
| 10/07/2020 | Kushal Babel | Kushal discussed Miner Extractable Value (MEV) | 
| 09/30/2020 | Ethan Cecchetti | Ethan will be giving a primer on Information-Flow Control (IFC). | 
| 09/22/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD | 
| 09/15/2020 | N/A | Everyone will bring a 5 minute presentation about a research idea they haven’t used yet. | 
| 09/08/2020 | Ari Juels | The “Research Stork:” where do good research ideas come from? | 
| 09/01/2020 | Deepak Maram | TBD | 
| 08/25/2020 | Phil Daian | TBD | 
| 08/18/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen will be giving a practice talk about CanDID. | 
| 08/11/2020 | Tyler Kell | Tyler will give a talk about modal editing, and vim tips. | 
| 08/04/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD | 
| 07/28/2020 | NOBODY | CANCELED in favor of the IC3 Annual Blockchain Summer Camp | 
| 07/21/2020 | Kushal Babel | Benjamin Y Chan will be giving a talk on Streamlet: Simplifying Consensus. | 
| 07/14/2020 | Sishan Long | AIRS research update | 
| 07/07/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD | 
| 06/30/2020 | Yan Ji | TBD | 
| 06/23/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | Sreeram Kannan will be giving a talk on Free2Shard: Adaptive-adversary-resistant sharding via Dynamic Self Allocation | 
| 06/16/2020 | Deepak Maram | TBD | 
| 06/09/2020 | Phil Daian | TBD | 
| 06/02/2020 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD | 
| 05/26/2020 | Fan Zhang | We’ll have Long Chen from NJIT to present Proof of Storage-Time: Efficiently CheckingContinuous Data Availability (NDSS’20). | 
| 05/19/2020 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD | 
| 05/12/2020 | Tyler Kell | TBD | 
| 05/5/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD | 
| 04/28/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD | 
| 04/21/2020 | Yan Ji | TBD | 
| 04/14/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | TBD | 
| 04/07/2020 | Fan Zhang | TBD | 
| 03/31/2020 | Tyler Kell | TBD | 
| 03/24/2020 | Phil Daian | TBD | 
| 03/17/2020 | Ethan Cecchetti | TBD | 
| 03/10/2020 | Deepak Maram | TBD | 
| 03/3/2020 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD | 
| 02/25/2020 | Mahimna Kelkar | TBD | 
| 02/18/2020 | Iddo Bentov | TBD | 
| 02/11/2020 | Yan Ji | TBD | 
| 02/04/2020 | Jasleen Malvai | TBD | 
| 01/28/2020 | Fan Zhang | Job Talk | 
| 01/21/2020 | Tyler Kell | TBD | 
| 12/31/2019 | NOBODY | Winter Holidays | 
| 12/24/2019 | Yan Ji | TBD | 
| 12/17/2019 | Fan Zhang | I’ll present OPERA: Open Remote Attestation for Intel’s Secure Enclaves from CCS’19. | 
| 12/10/2019 | Phil Daian | TBD | 
| 12/03/2019 | Ari Juels | Guest lecture by James Grimmelmann | 
| 11/26/2019 | Quick scrum and various administrativa, but no presentation this week. | |
| 11/19/2019 | Phil Daian | Phil will be talking about “Blockchain Protocol Security in the Age of DeFi” | 
| 11/12/2019 | Cancelled due to CCS | |
| 11/05/2019 | Mahimna Kelkar | Tom Yurek from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign will be discussing his CCS 2019 paper HoneyBadgerMPC and AsynchroMix: Practical Asynchronous MPC and its Application to Anonymous Communication. | 
| 10/29/2019 | Deepak Maram | Vasilios Mavroudis will be presenting his recent paper Libra: Fair Order-Matching for Electronic Financial Exchanges. | 
| 10/22/2019 | Iddo Bentov | TBD | 
| 10/15/2019 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD | 
| 10/08/2019 | Yan Ji | Yan will be discussing the last few months of her research with people outside the group. | 
| 10/01/2019 | Fan Zhang | Jiaheng Zhang from Berkeley will present their CRYTP’19 paper Libra: Succinct Zero-Knowledge Proofs with Optimal Prover Computation. | 
| 09/24/2019 | Jasleen Malvai | Jasleen will be presenting her work on “SEEMless: Secure End-to-End Encrypted Messaging with Less Trust“ | 
| 09/17/2019 | Noa Oved | Noa’s friend Gal will present “Transactional Data Structure Libraries” – a paper about transactional memory. | 
| 09/10/2019 | Tyler Kell | Haaroon Yousaf will be presenting his recent work “Tracing Transactions Across Cryptocurrency Ledgers” from USENIX Security ’19 | 
| 09/03/2019 | Ethan Cecchetti | Ethan will lead a talk about DAML. | 
| 08/27/2019 | Phil Daian | Phil will talk about Joe Bonneau and Andrew Miller’s Fawkescoin paper | 
| 08/16/2019 | Mahimna Kelkar | |
| 08/06/2019 | Tyler Kell | One of Tyler’s friends that prefers to remain anonymous will be talking about threat modeling and architecture design review. | 
| 08/02/2019 | Yan Ji | Yan will lead a group discussion on XClaim, a trustlesss cryptocurrency backed assets system | 
| 07/26/2019 | Deepak Maram | TBD | 
| 07/19/2019 | Fan Zhang | Reading AVSS paper. | 
| 07/12/2019 | Iddo Bentov | TBD | 
| 07/05/2019 | Steven Goldfeder | TBD | 
| 06/28/2019 | Jasleen Malvai | Soumya Basu will be talking about topic “TBD” | 
| 06/21/2019 | Nobody | Brainstorming Meeting to discuss research data | 
| 06/14/2019 | Nobody | CANCELED – IC3 ETH Bootcamp | 
| 06/07/2019 | Nobody | CANCELED | 
| 05/31/2019 | Nobody | Short meta-meeting to discuss administrativa | 
| 05/24/2019 | Fan Zhang | Ted Yin from Cornell and Ava Labs will present Scalable and Probabilistic Leaderless BFT Consensus through Metastability. | 
| 05/17/2019 | Mahimna Kelkar | Fairness for Centralized Services | 
| 05/10/2019 | Jasleen Malvai | Benedikt Bünz (Stanford) will be presenting his paper Batching Techniques for Accumulators with Applications to IOPs and Stateless Blockchains. | 
| 05/03/2019 | Nobody | Recent advances in cryptocurrencies reading group. Paper TBD. | 
| 04/26/2019 | Lorenz Breidenbach | CANCELED | 
| 04/19/2019 | Ethan Cecchetti | Information Flow and its Application to Smart Contracts | 
| 04/12/2019 | Iddo Bentov | Mimblewimble Overview & Discussion | 
| 04/05/2019 | Phil Daian | Flash Boys 2.0: Frontrunning, Latency Wars, and Instability in Decentralized Exchanges | 
| 03/29/2019 | Deepak Maram | CHURP: CHUrn-Robust Proactive Secret Sharing | 
| 03/22/2019 | CANCELLED | |
| 03/15/2019 | Yan Ji | Amplify Selfish Mining in a World with Rational Players | 
| 03/08/2019 | CANCELLED | NYC Crypto Day | 
| 03/01/2019 | Steven Goldfeder | Joseph Bonneau (NYU) will present his work on Verifiable Delay Functions (VDFs). For more info on this research area, see https://vdfresearch.org/. | 
| 02/22/2019 | Nobody | Recent advances in cryptocurrencies reading group. Paper TBD. | 
| 02/15/2019 | Cancelled due to the IC3 retreat | |
| 02/08/2019 | Tyler Kell | Stories from the Frontlines: Pentesting (Note: Ari away) | 
| 02/01/2019 | Ian Miers | Ian’s Job Talk |