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Episode 200: SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa

Podcast |: Zero Knowledge
Publisher |: Zero Knowledge Podcast
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Education,; Interview,; Mathematics,; Technology
Categories Via RSS |: Education,; Mathematics,; Science,; Technology
Publication Date |: Oct 06, 2021
Episode Duration |: 01:05:10

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200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna (https://twitter.com/AnnaRRose) chats with Alessandro Chiesa (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/), a professor working on cryptography, complexity and security and one of the co-founders Zcash and StarkWare. Anna and Ale dig into some of the recent SNARK research coming out of his lab and discuss how to navigate the challenges of teaching in a space that changes quickly. Here are some links for this episode: * Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro (https://zeroknowledge.fm/59-2/) * Episode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction (https://zeroknowledge.fm/114-2/) * Summer school - Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs (virtual) (https://www.msri.org/summer_schools/931) * Paper - Barriers for Succinct Arguments in the Random Oracle Model by Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1427) * Paper - Proof Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments (https://eprint.iacr.org/2020/1618) * Paper - A Zero Knowledge Sumcheck and its Applications (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1704.02086) * Paper - Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More (https://eprint.iacr.org/2017/1066.pdf) * Subquadratic SNARGs in the Random Oracle Model (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/281) * Post-Quantum Succinct Arguments: Breaking the Quantum Rewinding Barrier (https://eprint.iacr.org/2021/334) * Paper - DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System (https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity18/presentation/wu) * Paper - Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS (https://eprint.iacr.org/2018/828) * Alessandro Chiesa's website (https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~alexch/) Look out for ZK Hack (https://www.zkhack.dev/) kicking off October 26th — a multi-round online event with workshops and puzzle solving competitions. Sign up at: https://www.zkhack.dev/ If you're in Lisbon in October for Lisbon Blockchain Week then join us for the official ZK Hack Kick-off Party (https://www.eventbrite.com/e/zk-hack-kick-off-party-tickets-185130539427)! Thank you to this week’s sponsor. Centrifuge (https://centrifuge.io/) - A Real-world DeFi project. Centrifuge puts real-world assets on the blockchain, allowing issuers to get liquidity on their assets and investors to make a safe, stable yield in the volatile crypto world. They are hiring positions! Head to https://centrifuge.io/careers to learn more. If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter (https://zeroknowledge.substack.com/) to not miss any event! Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm (https://twitter.com/zeroknowledgefm) Join us on Telegram (https://t.me/joinchat/TORo7aknkYNLHmCM) Catch us on Youtube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYWsYz5cKw4wZ9Mpe4kuM_g) Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/zkpodcast) Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant (https://gitcoin.co/grants/329/zero-knowledge-podcast-2) Support us on the ZKPatreon (https://www.patreon.com/zeroknowledge) Donate through coinbase.commerce (https://commerce.coinbase.com/checkout/f1e56274-c92b-4a99-802f-50727d651b38)

200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna chats with Alessandro Chiesa, a professor working on cryptography, complexity and security and one of the co-founders Zcash and StarkWare. Anna and Ale dig into some of the recent SNARK research coming out of his lab and discuss how to navigate the challenges of teaching in a space that changes quickly.

Here are some links for this episode:

Look out for ZK Hack kicking off October 26th — a multi-round online event with workshops and puzzle solving competitions. Sign up at: https://www.zkhack.dev/

If you're in Lisbon in October for Lisbon Blockchain Week then join us for the official ZK Hack Kick-off Party!

Thank you to this week’s sponsor. Centrifuge - A Real-world DeFi project. Centrifuge puts real-world assets on the blockchain, allowing issuers to get liquidity on their assets and investors to make a safe, stable yield in the volatile crypto world.

They are hiring positions! Head to https://centrifuge.io/careers to learn more.

If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter to not miss any event!

Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKPatreon Donate through coinbase.commerce