Friday, August 2, 2019

[DMANET] Call for Posters and Lightning Talks - International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains and Distributed Ledger Technologies BDLT19 - Vienna, Sept 2-5, 2019

The 1st International Summer School on Security & Privacy for Blockchains
and Distributed Ledger Technologies (BDLT) invites posters and lightning
talks to showcase work-in-progress and already-published research.

The BDLT19 is jointly organized by members of TU Wien (Vienna University of
Technology), Princeton University, and SBA Research. In its first edition,
it will be hosted by TU Wien in Vienna, Austria from September 2, 2019 to
September 5, 2019.

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Topics

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Example topics of interest include, but are not limited to: novel attacks on
distributed systems; consensus protocols and fault tolerance; incentive
structures, such as proof-of-work and proof-of-stake; recent results on
blockchain scalability, payment channels and state channels; advancements on
smart contracts; or, realistic adversarial capabilities. We strongly
encourage both submissions from academia and industry. If your poster or
lightning talk is accepted, at least one of the authors must register and
attend BDLT to present their research.

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Posters

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Please submit an extended abstract no longer than two pages that describes
your research. The research does not need to be completed or published, and
preliminary results are encouraged but not required. Details:
https://bdlt.school/call-for-posters-and-lightning-talks/

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Lightning Talks

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The lightning talks session at BDLT is intended to present work-in-progress
from attendees (both from academia and industry) in the form of a short
presentation. We strongly encourage submission of a poster and a lightning
talk on the same topic to the summer school. There are no format
requirements for your talk and we do not provide any template. Details:
https://bdlt.school/call-for-posters-and-lightning-talks/

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Important Deadlines

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-Submission deadline: August 8th, 2019 (23:59 PDT)

-Acceptance Notification: August 15th, 2019

-Poster Session: September 2nd, 2019

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BDLT19 Speakers

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-Pascal Berrang (Nimiq)

-Rainer Böhme (University of Innsbruck)

-Christian Cachin (University of Bern)

-Jing Chen (Stony Brook University)

-Angelo De Caro (IBM Research)

-Sebastian Faust (TU Darmstadt)

-Bryan Ford (EPFL)

-Arthur Gervais (Imperial College London and Liquidity Network)

-Aniket Kate (Purdue University)

-Patrick McCorry (King's College London)

-Krzysztof Pietrzak (IST Austria)

-Hubert Ritzdorf (ChainSecurity)

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Organizers

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Matteo Maffei (TU Wien)

Edgar Weippl (TU Wien)

Kevin Borgolte (Princeton University)

Martina Lindorfer (TU Wien)

Pedro Moreno-Sanchez (TU Wien)

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Contact

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<mailto:organizers@bdlt.school> organizers@bdlt.school

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Website

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<https://bdlt.school/call-for-posters-and-lightning-talks/>
https://bdlt.school/call-for-posters-and-lightning-talks/


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