When: Friday, October 14 at MIT.
Where: 32 Vassar St (Stata Center)
G-882 (Hewlett), Cambridge MA 02139.
Program:
9:30 – 10:00. | Introduction/Coffee |
10:00 – 11:00. | Nir Bitansky, MIT From Cryptomania to Obfustopia through Secret-Key Functional Encryption |
11:00 – 12:00. | Rachel Lin, UC Santa Barbara Indistinguishability Obfuscation from DDH-like Assumptions on Constant-Degree Graded Encodings |
12:00 – 1:30. | Lunch (provided) |
1:30 – 2:30. | Jing Chen, Stony Brook Rational Proofs with Multiple Provers |
2:30 – 3:30. | Elaine Shi, Cornell Blockchains and Beyond: Rethinking Distributed Consensus in New Settings |
3:30 – 4:00. | Coffee Break |
4:00 – 5:00. | Jeremiah Blocki, Purdue Towards a Theory of Data-Independent Memory Hard Functions |