Cryptography and Information Security (CIS) Seminar Series 2021

Rachel Zhang,
Rachel Zhang: SNARGs for Bounded Depth Computations
Speaker(s): Rachel Zhang
Date: Friday, February 26, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: Email: dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom Link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Alex Lombardi, MIT,
Alex Lombardi: Fiat-Shamir via List-Recoverable Codes
Speaker(s): Alex Lombardi, MIT
Date: Friday, March 05, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu or join the CIS Seminar email group for Zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Jiayu Zhang,
Jiayu Zhang: Succinct Blind Quantum Computation Using a Random Oracle
Speaker(s): Jiayu Zhang
Date: Friday, March 19, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Prabhanjan Ananth,
Prabhanjan Ananth: Secure Software Leasing
Speaker(s): Prabhanjan Ananth
Date: Friday, March 26, 2021
Time: 1:00 AM to 2:30 PM
Location:
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Ron Rothblum,
Ron Rothblum: Local Proofs Approaching the Witness Length
Speaker(s): Ron Rothblum
Date: Friday, April 02, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Dakshita Khurana,
Dakshita Khurana: On Removing Interaction in Non-Malleable Commitments
Speaker(s): Dakshita Khurana
Date: Friday, April 09, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom Link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Zhengzhong Jin,
Zhengzhong Jin: Non-Interactive Zero Knowledge from Sub-exponential DDH
Speaker(s): Zhengzhong Jin
Date: Friday, April 16, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Sophia Yakoubov,
Sophia Yakoubov: The Rise of Paillier: Homomorphic Secret Sharing and Public-Key Silent OT
Speaker(s): Sophia Yakoubov
Date: Friday, April 23, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Shuichi Hirahara,
(special start time of 9:30amET) Shuichi Hirahara: Average-Case Hardness of NP from Exponential Worst-Case Hardness Assumptions
Speaker(s): Shuichi Hirahara
Date: Friday, April 30, 2021
Time: 9:30 AM to 11:00 AM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, MIT,
Henry Corrigan-Gibbs: Lightweight Techniques for Private Heavy Hitters
Speaker(s): Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, MIT
Date: Friday, May 14, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom link (or join the CIS Seminar mailing list)
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Fermi Ma,
Fermi Ma: Post-Quantum Succinct Arguments
Speaker(s): Fermi Ma
Date: Friday, May 21, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom Link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Geoffroy Couteau, CNRS research scientist at IRIF,
Geoffroy Couteau: Title: Correlated Pseudorandom Functions from Variable-Density LPN
Speaker(s): Geoffroy Couteau, CNRS research scientist at IRIF
Date: Friday, May 28, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for Zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Hemanta Maji,
Hemanta Maji: Computational Hardness of Optimal Fair Computation
Speaker(s): Hemanta Maji
Date: Friday, September 10, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu to request link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Gregory Meyer, UC Berkeley,
Gregory Meyer: Classical Verification of Quantum Computational Advantage
Speaker(s): Gregory Meyer, UC Berkeley
Date: Friday, October 08, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email: dlehto@mit.edu for link or check in to attend the Zoom Seminar with others (Room 32-370) at: https://tim-tickets.atlas-apps.mit.edu/TXG71hYWyh2sUz5z6
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, 324-7303, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Katerina Sotiraki,
Katerina Sotiraki: Sumcheck Arguments and their Applications
Speaker(s): Katerina Sotiraki
Date: Friday, October 22, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: email dlehto@mit.edu for link or join us in 32-370 for a Hybrid
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
5 Great Speakers: Alex Lombardi, Luowen Qian, Ari Karchmer, Meghal Gupta and Willy Quach,
Charles River Crypto Day at MIT
Speaker(s): 5 Great Speakers: Alex Lombardi, Luowen Qian, Ari Karchmer, Meghal Gupta and Willy Quach
Date: Friday, November 19, 2021
Time: 9:15 AM to 5:00 PM
Location: Star, D-463
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu

Anne Broadbent: Bob’s sidekick (or how tripartite quantum correlations are weaker than you thought and how this is useful for cryptography)
Speaker(s):
Date: Friday, December 03, 2021
Time: 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM
Location: Hybrid 32-370 or email dlehto@mit.edu for zoom link
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu
Merav Parter,
Special Time/Day Merav Parter: A Graph Theoretic Approach for Resilient Distributed Algorithms
Speaker(s): Merav Parter
Date: Monday, December 06, 2021
Time: 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Location: Hewlett and Zoom (email dlehto@mit.edu for link)
Contact: Deborah Goodwin, dlehto@csail.mit.edu