Program

Sunday, May 21

19:30  -  21:30 Welcome reception

Monday, May 22

09:30 - 10:00 Opening remarks
10:00 - 11:30

Blockchain Warm-up, Part I: Crypto, Proof of Work, Consensus… (slides)

Juan Garay (Texas A&M University) 
11:30 - 12:00

Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30

Blockchain Warm-up, Part II: Blockchain  Ledgers, Proof of Stake, Nakamoto vs. iBFT  (slides)

Vassilis Zikas (Purdue University)
13:30 - 15:00

Lunch   
15:00 - 16:30

Transaction Fee Mechanism Design  (slides)

Julien Prat (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00

A 59 minutes and 60 seconds introduction to smart contracts  (slides)

Ariel Waissbein (CoinFabrik)

Tuesday, May 23

10:00 - 11:00

Main DeFi Protocols, Decentralized Exchanges, Miner Extractable Value (slides)

Julien Prat (CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique)
11:00 - 11:30

Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00

Folks Finance and Algorand Decentralized Finance (slides)

Gidon Katten (Folks Finance)
13:00 - 13:30

Lightning talks

  • AVeCQ: Anonymous Verifiable Crowdsourcing with Worker Qualities, Vlasis Koutsos (HKUST) (slides)
  • Initial survey of energy consumption in blockchain usecases, Victor Daniel Cruz (UNAM)
13:30 - 15:00

Lunch   
15:00 - 16:30

TEAL/PyTEAL Tutorial 1 (part 1)

  • Introduction to Algorand Smart Contract Programming, Muhammad Ishaq (Purdue) (slides)
  • Introducing the FolksFinance Bounty Task, Giuseppe Palazzolo (FolksFinance) 
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00

TEAL/PyTEAL Tutorial 1 (part 2) 

  • Writing an Auction Smart Contract, Joe Polny (Algorand Foundation) (slides)

Wednesday, May 24

10:00 - 11:30

Zero-knowledge proofs and applications on privacy preserving blockchains (slides)

Michele Ciampi (Edinburgh)
11:30 - 12:00

Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30

Chaining Intelligence: Exploring the Intersection of Blockchain and AI (slides)

Oshani Seneviratne (RPI)
13:30 - 15:00

Lunch   
16:00 - 19:00

Hiking and swimming (meeting point: Magus cafe, Bld A, 4pm) 

Thursday, May 25

10:00 - 10:45

How much can you know if you get access to a relay node in Algorand's network?(slides)

Esteban Mocskos (Buenos Aires)
10:45 - 11:30

Software Verification 101 (slides)

Diego Garbervetsky (Buenos Aires)
11:30 - 12:00

Coffee break
12:00 - 13:00

AlgoCRYPT at JPMC: Products and Future Directions (slides)

Antigoni Polychroniadou (JP Morgan)
13:00 - 13:30

Lightning talks

  • An Economic Analysis of Uniswap, Myriam Kassoul (École Polytechnique)
  • Systemic Risks and Where to Find Them in DeFi, Natkamon Tovanich ( École Polytechnique)
  • Open Challenges for Achieving Attribute-Based Encryption Full Decentralization without Leaking Sensitive Data, Melissa Brigitthe Hinojosa-Cabello (UNAM, Cinvestav) (slides)
  • On Rational Protocol Design, Brady Testa (TAMU) 
13:30 - 15:00

Lunch   
15:00 - 16:30

TEAL/PyTEAL Tutorial 2 (part 1)

NFT Minting DAO (slides)

Joe Polny (Algorand Foundation)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee break
17:00 - 18:00

TEAL/PyTEAL Tutorial 2 (part 2)

Programming a simple NFT based game (slides)

Argimiro del Pozo (CoinFabrik)
dusk - dawn :) Greek social event (opa!)

Friday, May 26

10:00 - 11:30

Mini Hackathon (part 1)
11:30 - 12:00

Coffee break
12:00 - 13:30

Mini Hackathon (part 2)
13:30 - 15:00

Lunch   
15:30 Departure to Athens