ConsensusDays 21
6-7 October 2021
Virtual
Virtual
| Home | Calls | Registration | Programme |
| 14:00 UTC | Welcome and Logistics |
| 14:10 UTC | Opening Talk: A Vision for ConsensusLab and Decentralized Computing (video) |
| Marko Vukolić (Protocol Labs) |
| 15:00 UTC | Session 1.1 - Sharding |
| 15:00 | MITOSIS: Practically Scaling Permissioned Blockchains (video) |
| Giorgia Azzurra Marson (NEC Labs Europe), Sebastien Andreina (NEC Labs Europe), Lorenzo Alluminio (NEC Labs Europe), Konstantin Munichev (NEC Labs Europe), Ghassan Karame (NEC Labs Europe) |
| 15:15 | Shard Scheduler: Object Placement and Migration in Sharded Account-based Blockchains (video) |
| Michał Król (City, University of London), Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University), Sergi Rene (University College of London), Albert Sonnino (Facebook Novi), Mustafa Al-Bassam (Celestia Labs), Etienne Rivière (UCLouvain) |
| 15:30 | Efficient Fault-Tolerant Cluster-Sending: Reliable and Efficient Communication between Byzantine Fault-Tolerant Clusters (video) |
| Jelle Hellings (McMaster University), Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California, Davis) |
| 15:45 | RingBFT: Resilient Consensus over Sharded Ring Topology (video) |
| Sajjad Rahnama (University of California, Davis), Suyash Gupta (University of California, Davis), Rohan Sogani (University of California, Davis), Dhruv Krishnan (University of California, Davis), Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California, Davis) |
| 16:00 | Q&A (video) |
| 16:15 UTC | Break |
| 16:30 UTC | Session 1.2 - Scaling and Performance |
| 16:30 | Dandelion: Multiplexing Byzantine Agreements to Unlock Blockchain Performance (video) |
| Kadir Korkmaz (Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS), Joachim Bruneau-Queyreix (Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS), Sonia Ben Mokthar (CNRS - LIRIS), Laurent Réveillère (Univ. Bordeaux, Bordeaux INP, CNRS) |
| 16:45 | Basil: Breaking up BFT with ACID (transactions) (video) |
| Florian Suri-Payer (Cornell University), Matthew Burke (Cornell University), Zheng Wang (Cornell University), Yunhao Zhang (Cornell University), Lorenzo Alvisi (Cornell University), Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley) |
| 17:00 | Kauri: Scalable BFT Consensus with Pipelined Tree-Based Dissemination and Aggregation (video) |
| Ray Neiheiser (INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa & UFSC/DAS), Miguel Matos (INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa), Luis Rodrigues (INESC-ID, IST, U. Lisboa) |
| 17:15 | Q&A (video) |
| 17:30 UTC | Session 1.3 - Stronger Security |
| 17:30 | Formal Verification of Blockchain Byzantine Fault Tolerance (video) |
| Pierre Tholoniat (Columbia University), Vincent Gramoli (University of Sydney and EPFL) |
| 17:45 | PoSAT: Proof-of-Work Availability and Unpredictability, Without the Work (video) |
| Soubhik Deb (University of Washington), Sreeram Kannan (University of Washington), David Tse (Stanford University) |
| 18:00 | No-Commit Proofs: Defeating Livelock in BFT (video) |
| Neil Giridharan (UC Berkeley), Heidi Howard (University of Cambridge), Alin Tomescu (VMware Research), Ittai Abraham (VMware Research), Natacha Crooks (UC Berkeley) |
| 18:15 | Themis: Fast, Strong Order-Fairness in Byzantine Consensus (video) |
| Mahimna Kelkar (Cornell Tech), Soubhik Deb (University of Washington), Sishan Long (Cornell Tech), Ari Juels (Cornell Tech), Sreeram Kannan (University of Washington) |
| 18:30 | Q&A (video) |
| 18:45 UTC | Session 1.4 - Mempool and P2P Communication |
| 18:45 | Topic-based Service Discovery for the Ethereum P2P Network (video) |
| Michał Król (City, University of London), Sergi Rene (University College of London), Onur Ascigil (Lancaster University), Etienne Rivière (UCLouvain), Felix Lange (Ethereum) |
| 19:00 | Narwhal and Tusk: A DAG-based Mempool and Efficient BFT Consensus (video) |
| George Danezis (Facebook Novi), Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (Facebook Novi), Alberto Sonnino (Facebook Novi), Alexander Spiegelman (Facebook Novi) |
| 19:15 | DETER: Denial of Ethereum Txpool sERvices |
| Kai Li (Syracuse University), Yibo Wang (Syracuse University), Yuzhe Tang (Syracuse University) |
| 19:30 | Q&A (video) |
| 19:45 UTC | Closing Remarks |
| 14:00 UTC | Welcome and Logistics |
| 14:05 UTC | Opening Talk: The Importance of Consensus R&D Breakthroughs (video) |
| Juan Benet (Protocol Labs) |
| 14:30 UTC | Panel Discussion: Collaborative Research (video) |
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Moderator: Karola Kirsanow (Protocol Labs) Christian Cachin (University of Bern), Zarko Milosevic (Informal Systems), Jorge Soares (Protocol Labs), Dawn Song (Oasis Labs) |
| 15:15 UTC | Session 2.1 - Asynchrony and Asymmetry |
| 15:15 | Protocols with Asymmetric Trust (video) |
| Christian Cachin (University of Bern) |
| 15:30 | The Dumbo Protocol Family: Making Asynchronous Consensus Practical (video) |
| Qiang Tang (University of Sydney) |
| 15:45 | Jolteon and Ditto: Network-Adaptive Efficient Consensus with Asynchronous Fallback (video) |
| Rati Gelashvili (Novi Research), Lefteris Kokoris-Kogias (Novi Research & IST Austria), Albert Sonnino (Novi Research), Alexander Spiegelman (Novi Research), Zhuolun Xiang (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) |
| 16:00 | Q&A (video) |
| 16:15 UTC | Break |
| 16:30 UTC | Session 2.2 - Checkpointing |
| 16:30 | Shades of Finality and Commitchain Scaling (video) |
| Bennet Yee (Oasis Labs), Dawn Song (Oasis Labs), Patrick McCorry (Infura), Chris Buckland (Infura) |
| 16:45 | The Availability-Accountability Dilemma and its Resolution via Accountability Gadgets (video) |
| Joachim Neu (Stanford University), Ertem Nusret Tas (Stanford University), David Tse (Stanford University) |
| 17:00 | Securing Membership and State Checkpoints of BFT and PoS Blockchains by Anchoring onto the Bitcoin Blockchain (video) |
| Sarah Azouvi (Protocol Labs) |
| 17:15 | Q&A (video) |
| 17:30 UTC | Session 2.3 - The Eventual Future |
| 17:30 | Beyond Blockchain: New Directions in Distributed Crypto (video) |
| Victor Grishchenko (N. Krasovskii Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics) |
| 17:45 | Byzantine Eventual Consistency and the Fundamental Limits of Peer-to-Peer Databases (video) |
| Martin Kleppmann (University of Cambridge), Heidi Howard (University of Cambridge) |
| 18:00 | Tamperproof Provenance-Aware Storage for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (video) |
| Danny Adams (Cornell University), Gloire Rubambiza (Cornell University), Xinwen Wang (Cornell University), Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University), Robbert van Renesse (Cornell University) |
| 18:15 | Permissionless Consensus: To Infinity and Beyond (video) |
| Patrick Lambein-Monette (IRIF, Université de Paris) |
| 18:30 | Q&A (video) |
| 18:45 UTC | Closing Session / Open Discussion |
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