Workshop III: Foundations of secure multi-party computation and zero-knowledge and its applications

November 13 - 17, 2006

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, November 13, 2006

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:45 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:45 - 10:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15
Amit Sahai (UCLA)

 
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
Hoeteck Wee (UC Berkeley)

One Way Permutations, Interactive Hashing and Statistically Hiding Commitments
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30
Enav Weinreb (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

Private Approximation of Search Problems
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

5:30 - 6:30 Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, November 14, 2006

Morning Session

9:00 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Jonathan Katz (University of Maryland)

On Expected Constant-Round Protocols for Broadcast
Presentation (PowerPoint File)

4:30 - 5:30

Wednesday, November 15, 2006

Morning Session

9:00 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 11:00
Manoj Prabhakaran (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Angels and Monitors
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30

Thursday, November 16, 2006

Morning Session

9:00 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 11:00
11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15
Serge Fehr (CWI (Center for Mathematics and Computer Science))

Combinatorial Codes for Detection of Algebraic Manipulation
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
PDF Presentation

12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
4:30 - 5:30

Friday, November 17, 2006

Morning Session

9:00 - 10:00 Continental Breakfast
10:00 - 11:00
Eyal Kushilevitz (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

ZK from MPC
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

11:00 - 11:15 Break
11:15 - 12:15
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:00 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30
Stanislaw Jarecki (University of California, Irvine)

Efficient Secure Two-Party Computation on Committed Inputs
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)

4:30 - 5:30
Benny Applebaum (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)

On Pseudorandom Generators with Linear Stretch in NC0
Audio (MP3 File, Podcast Ready)
Presentation (PowerPoint File)