IACR Summer School

Blockchain Technologies


from cryptographic e-cash to modern cryptocurrencies
May 30 - June 2 2016
Corfu, Greece
Corfucoin
IACR

We're running the first summer school on blockchains and cryptocurrencies. We welcome students, researchers and professionals with an interest in cryptocurrencies and blockchains to join us.

Speakers

We have a great program lined up for 2016. We're excited to welcome the leading experts on blockchains from industry and academia.

Foteini Baldimtsi

Foteini Baldimtsi

Boston University, USA

Rainer BΓΆhme

Rainer BΓΆhme

University of Innsbruck, AT

Joseph Bonneau

Joseph Bonneau

Stanford University, USA

Jerry Brito

Jerry Brito

Coin Center, USA

Jan Camenisch

Jan Camenisch

IBM Research, CH

Nicolas Christin

Nicolas Christin

Carnegie Mellon University, USA

George Danezis

George Danezis

University College London, UK

Adam Joyce

Adam Joyce

Elliptic, UK

Aggelos Kiayias

Aggelos Kiayias

University of Edinburgh, UK

>Sarah Meiklejohn

Sarah Meiklejohn

University College London, UK

>Roger Wattenhofer

Roger Wattenhofer

ETH Zurich, CH

Vassilis Zikas

Vassilis Zikas

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Organizers

Foteini Baldimtsi

Foteini Baldimtsi

Foteini is a postdoctoral researcher in the BU Security group at Boston University.

Aggelos Kiayias

Aggelos Kiayias

Aggelos is a Professor at the University of Edinburgh.

Sarah Meiklejohn

Sarah Meiklejohn

Sarah is an Assistant Professor in the departments of Computer Science and Security and Crime Science at UCL.

Donate

Bitcoin school is not-for-profit. We are accepting donations in bitcoin to help us run the school.

Thank you for your generosity!

Equal opportunity

We welcome diversity and are striving to offer equal opportunities to all students. We are dedicated to providing a harassment-free conference experience for everyone, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, disability, physical appearance, body size, race, or religion.

Stipends

All stipends are now allocated. Thanks to NSF, IOHK and INTEL for their sponsorship.

Schedule

Monday

09.00 - 09.25 Registration
09.25 - 09.30 Opening
09.30 - 10.30 Bitcoin overview (Joe)
10.30 - 11.00 β˜•
11.00 - 12.30 Scaling Bitcoin securely (Aggelos)
12.30 - 14.00 πŸ•
14.00 - 15.30 Consensus (Roger)
15.30 - 16.00 β˜•
16.00 - 17.30 Mining (Joe)
19.00 - 20.30 Reception

Tuesday

09.30 - 11.00 Cryptographic e-cash (Jan)
11.00-11.30β˜•
11.30 - 12.30 Anonymity in cryptocurrencies (Foteini)
12.30-14.00πŸ•
14.00 - 15.30 Cryptography on the blockchain (Vassilis)
15.30-16.00β˜•
16.00 - 18.00 Short talks

Wednesday

09.30-11.00 Decentralization as a privacy-enhancing technology (George)
11:00-11.30β˜•
11.30 - 12.30 Bitcoin de-anonymization in practice (Adam)
12.30-14.30πŸ•
14.30-17.30

Breakout sessions

Main hall: IOHK session

Scorex: A Modular Toolbox for Cryptocurrency Research. A Haskell Implementation of RSCoin

Alkinoos room: Corfucoin session

Corfucoin: How to implement your own cryptocurrency

Thursday

09.30-11.00 Anonymous online marketplaces (Nicolas)
11.00-11.30β˜•
11.30-13.00The Bitcoin economic ecosystem (Rainer)
13.00-14.00πŸ•
14.00-15.30Regulation in Bitcoin (Jerry)
15.30-16.00β˜•
16.00-17.30Alternatives to blockchains (Sarah)

Accommodation

The school will be hosted at the Corfu Imperial Hotel.

Participants that wish to stay at the school venue can book their rooms using the code SUMSCH at the discounted rate of €150/night for double- and €130/night for single-occupancy (taxes and breakfast included).

Alternative options Hotel Nefeli (20' walking from the venue) offers rooms in discounted rate of €42/night for double- and €34/night for single-occupancy (taxes and breakfast included). To reserve a room email them directly and mention that you are attending the cryptocurrencies event. For more options please check on booking.com.

Hotel

Travel

By plane

The best way to reach Corfu is by plane. Aegean Airlines has daily service between Athens and Corfu (3-4 flights per day) and Ryanair flies between Athens and Corfu every Sunday and Friday. Astra-airlines flies from Thessaloniki to Corfu 4 times a week.

Corfu is directly connected to various European cities via charter flights. Ryanair and EasyJet, also provide direct connection with multiple European airports.

By bus and ferry

You could also reach Corfu by bus and boat. The KTEL bus service provides 3 daily connections to Corfu from Athens. The total trip will be around 8 hours.

Corfucoin

Corfucoin is the cryptocurrency of the summer school for attendees to play around with, mine and share!

Getting the Corfucoin wallet

Address registry

If you would like to share your Corfucoin address with the other attendees, you may use the address registry.

Mining Corfucoin

Corfucoin is a fork of Litecoin, which uses a scrypt proof-of-work scheme. Corfucoins can be mined by using cpuminer.

The great companies and organizations below are supporting us – Thank you! β™₯

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