Symposium Schedule

The symposium will be held online and live using Zoom. The link to the Zoom meeting will be posted on the day of the event and sent to the registrants emails.

Friday, May 1st (All times in Pacific Time)

9:00 AM 9:10 AM	Opening Remarks
9:10 AM 10:15 AM	Keynote 1: From Byzantine Replication to Blockchains: Consensus is only the Beginning Alysson Bessani (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
10:15 AM 10:45 AM	Break
10:45 AM 12:00 PM	Session I Chair: Kartik Nayak (Duke University) TrustDBle: Towards Trustable Shared Databases Muhammad El-Hindi (TU Darmstadt), Carsten Binnig (TU Darmstadt), Simon Karrer (TU Darmstadt), Gloria Doci (TU Darmstadt) ResilientDB: Global Scale Resilient Blockchain Fabric Suyash Gupta (University of California Davis), Sajjad Rahnama (University of California Davis), Jelle Hellings (University of California Davis), Mohammad Sadoghi (University of California, Davis) Scalable Decentralized Routing for Blockchain Payment Networks Xiaoxue Zhang (University of California, Santa Cruz), Shouqian Shi (University of California, Santa Cruz), Chen Qian (University of California, Santa Cruz) Securing Smart Contracts with Information Flow Ethan Cecchetti (Cornell University), Siqiu Yao (Cornell University), Haobin Ni (Cornell University), Andrew Myers (Cornell University)
12:00 PM 1:00 PM	Lunch Break
1:00 PM 1:30 PM	Poster Session
1:30 PM 2:30 PM	Keynote 2: The Journey to Libra Blockchain Core and Beyond Dahlia Malkhi (Research Lead at Calibra)
2:30 PM 3:00 PM	Break
3:00 PM 4:30 PM	Session II Chair: Shrutarshi Basu (Harvard University) An analysis of the market risk to participants in the Compound protocol Hsien-Tang Kao (Gauntlet), Tarun Chitra (Gauntlet), Rei Chiang (Gauntlet), John Morrow (Gauntlet) On Stablecoins: Stability Mechanisms and Use Cases for Real People Nathaniel Fowler (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), Eric Cuellar (California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo), Zachary Peterson (Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo) Decentralized Markets Evaluating Uniform and Non-Uniform prices Jason Vranek (UCSC), Yilin Li (UCSC)
4:30 PM 4:35 PM	Wrap