The final program of the Symposium can be downloaded here: Final Program (March 23, 2018).

Below is the list of invited talks and lightning talks session.

Invited Talks

Invited Talk 1: Can We Access a Database Both Locally and Privately?

Speaker: Elette Boyle (IDC Herzliya, Israel)

Abstract: A private information retrieval (PIR) protocol allows a client to retrieve an item from a remote database while hiding which item is retrieved even from the servers storing the database. The main focus of the large body of work on PIR has been on minimizing the communication complexity. We present an exploratory approach for achieving PIR with sublinear computational complexity, based on a new primitive of Oblivious Locally Decodable Codes. Based on joint work with Yuval Ishai, Rafael Pass, and Mary Wootters.

Invited Talk 2: Proof Systems for Blockchains: Proofs of (Catalytic) Space and Sequential Work 

Speaker: Krzysztof Pietrzak (IST Austria)

Lightning talk Session

• Fatih Özkaynak: Chaos based randomness
• Mehmet Tahir Sandikkaya: OTP as a service
• Patrick Harasser: Invisible Sanitizable Signatures and Public-Key Encryption are Equivalent
• Chris Brzuska: State-Separating Proofs: A Reduction Methodology for Real-World Protocols