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KickoffGeschrieben am 22.04.24 von Julian Loss Dear Students, I unfortunately missed that the lecture webpage does not yet indicate the room number and time of the course. We will meet on Mondays from 16:00 to 18:00 at the CISPA C0 building (in the room right of the entrance on the ground level). Because this information is somewhat… Weiterlesen Dear Students, I unfortunately missed that the lecture webpage does not yet indicate the room number and time of the course. We will meet on Mondays from 16:00 to 18:00 at the CISPA C0 building (in the room right of the entrance on the ground level). Because this information is somewhat last minute for today, I propose that we meet next week (on the 29.4.) for the first time. The structure of the seminar will be roughly as follows: I will give an introduction to the topic and explain the requirements/structure of your talks. We will also assign topics and schedule the dates for your talks in June and July. There will then be a break of a few weeks during which you can prepare the talks. Then, we will resume and have two 40min talks per week.
Looking forward to meeting all of you!
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.