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TomorrowGeschrieben am 24.01.23 von Julian Loss Dear Students, there has been an unforeseen change in our scheduling of hiring talks this year and tomorrow in our usual slot no longer works for me as a result. For this reason, we need to reschedule the final two talks to next week, 1.2.23
Best, Julian |
Energy Saving WeekGeschrieben am 04.01.23 von Julian Loss Dear Students, I have only recently become aware that the university is on energy saving week and will reopen only starting next week. Although CISPA is technically open, I suppose that most of you will not be physically on campus today. I therefore suggest to postpone todays scheduled talk… Weiterlesen Dear Students, I have only recently become aware that the university is on energy saving week and will reopen only starting next week. Although CISPA is technically open, I suppose that most of you will not be physically on campus today. I therefore suggest to postpone todays scheduled talk to next week (we will then have two talks on the 11th). I apologize for the short notice. Also, could all the students who have not been assigned a slot please reach out to me via email?
Best, Julian |
Wednesday, 14.12.22Geschrieben am 13.12.22 von Julian Loss Tomorrow, we will meet at 16:00 at CISPA0. We will have two talks. I will be away next week, so we won't have any talks then. Regarding talks in January, please write me your preferred date at your earliest convenience, so that I can assign you a paper. Best, Julian |
Introduction to Distributed Consensus
Description: Distributed Consensus is the fundamental problem of reaching agreement on a common output over a point-to-point network. This problem has been studied for many decades and has recently seen renewed interest in the context of blockchain protocols. In this seminar, we will cover some of the most important results in this area. This fascinating journey will take us from early feasibility/infeasibility results to high-performance algorithms that scale to billions of users.
The seminar will follow a mixed mode of lecturing and presentation by participants. In about half of the lectures, we will focus on classical works from the literature. For the other half, you will be asked to give a 45-minute presentation about a recent paper, which will determine your grade for the seminar.