Charles River Crypto Day this Friday Oct 14, 2016 @ MIT

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Vinod Vaikuntanathan

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Oct 10, 2016, 9:20:15 PM10/10/16
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Dear Cryptographers,

Come to the first Charles River Crypto Day of this academic year, get your fix of coffee, blockchains, rational proofs, memory hard functions and (need we say) indistinguishability obfuscation. See below for details.

See you all there! 

Ron/Yael/Daniel/Vinod



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

Vinod Vaikuntanathan

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Oct 13, 2016, 11:00:27 PM10/13/16
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Reminder: Charles River Crypto Day happening tomorrow at MIT!

See https://bostoncryptoday.wordpress.com/ for the schedule and abstracts.
  
Vinod
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