MACS Retreat, October 2015
Thursday, October 1
Location: Boston University, Metcalf Trustee Center
| 8:30-9:00 | Welcome & breakfast |
| 9:00-10:30 | MPC in the real world (paper 1, paper 2, slides) Azer Bestavros, Andrei Lapets, and Nikolaj Volgushev |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break |
| 10:45-12:00 | Sanctum, part 1 (paper) Victor Costan and Ilia Lebedev |
| 12-1 | Lunch |
| 1:00-1:45 | Sanctum, part 2 Victor Costan, and Ilia Lebedev |
| 1:45-2:00 | Break |
| 2:00-3:45 | Clouds in practice: opportunities and challenges (paper 1, paper 2) Jonathan Proulx, George Silvis, Mayank Varia, and Jason Hennessey |
| 3:45-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-4:30 | Vuvuzela, a metadata-private messaging system (paper) David Lazar |
| 4:30-5:00 | Discussion |
Friday, October 2
Location: MIT Stata Center, Hewlett Room (32-G882)
| 9:30-10:00 | Breakfast |
| 10:00-10:25 | Differentially Private Histograms for Range-Sum Queries: A Modular Approach Georgios Kellaris (paper, slides) |
| 10:25-10:45 | Non-malleable commitments Silas Richelson |
| 10:45-11:05 | How To Outsource Your Database Justin Holmgren |
| 11:05-11:35 | Spacecoin: A Cryptocurrency Based on Proofs of Space Sunoo Park |
| 11:35-11:40 | Analysis of Hacking Team’s Anti-Virus Evasion Tool: Core-Packer (blog) Ethan Heilman |
| 11:40-12:00 | Cryptographic Watermarking Aloni Cohen |
| 12:00-12:45 | Lunch |
| 12:45-1:30 | Multi-key FHE and two-round MPC (slides) Daniel Wichs |
| 1:30-1:45 | How to Use Bitcoin to Design Fair Protocols (slides) Ranjit Kumaresan |