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SUMMARY:IC Colloquium: Succinct Proofs: from Foundations to Real-World App
 lications
DTSTART:20210311T091500
DTEND:20210311T101500
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DESCRIPTION:By: Alessandro Chiesa - UC Berkeley\n\nAbstract\nSeminal resul
 ts in the 1990s led to the construction of cryptographic proofs that enabl
 e checking computations exponentially faster than they can be run. Unfortu
 nately these results were limited to "just theory" due to their enormous c
 oncrete costs. In this talk I will discuss our research efforts that over 
 the past decade have contributed new foundations and efficient realization
 s for these "succinct proofs". This led to real-world applications involvi
 ng millions of succinct proofs per day\, and the first deployments of cent
 ral notions in computer science such as zero knowledge proofs and probabil
 istic proofs.\n\nBio\nAlessandro Chiesa is a faculty member in computer sc
 ience at UC Berkeley. He conducts research in cryptography\, complexity th
 eory\, and security\, with a focus on cryptographic proofs that are short 
 and easy to verify. He is a co-author of several zkSNARK libraries\, and i
 s a co-inventor of the Zerocash protocol. He has co-founded Zcash and Star
 kWare Industries. He received S.B. degrees in Computer Science and in Math
 ematics\, and a Ph.D. in Computer Science\, from MIT. He is a recipient of
  a Sloan Research Fellowship (2021)\, an Okawa Foundation Research Grant (
 2020)\, and Google Faculty Research Awards (2018 and 2017). He was also se
 lected for MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" list in 2018.\
 n\nMore information\n 
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