Happy Holidays everyone!
A blockchain winter school is being organized Shanghai, China, during January 15th-17th 2017.
Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin have proven to be a phenomenal success. The underlying blockchain techniques hold a huge promise to change the future of financial transactions, and even our way of computation and collaboration. Both the development community and research community have recently made significant progress but at the same time, we are facing many challenges.
A winter school is being organized on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain Technologies in Shanghai, China, Jan 15t -17, 2017. This winter school aims to bring together the communities working on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies. The target audience is anyone (students, researchers, developers, professionals) with an interest in cryptography and security. The lectures in the school will be given by world-leading researchers in this area. All lectures will be self-contained, and we dont assume the participants to have cryptography background.
In this winter school, we will study a comprehensive set of topics about blockchain technology, including: Bitcoin basics; Analysis of blockchain consensus; ETC and smart contracts; Alternative approaches to mining and consensus; Scalability; Anonymity. The winter school will include a panel many important problems and hot topics will be discussed by leading researchers. We will also include a student presentation session, a demo session and a poster session so that students, developers, and junior researchers, can share their latest results.
More details can be found at the winter school website
http://blockchain.sjtu.edu.cn/en/index.php