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2022 IACR-CROSSING School on Combinatorial Techniques in Cryptography

Timetable

Below, you can find the preliminary timetable for the 2022 IACR-CROSSING School on Combinatorial Techniques in Cryptography and the excursion on Wednesday.

Preliminary timetable

Time (CEST)	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
08:00 – 08:30	Registration
08:30 – 09:00	Opening remarks
08:50 – 10:20	Krzysztof Pietrzak Notions of graph pebbling and their application to memory-hard functions, proofs of space, and adaptively secure cryptographic primitives and protocols (Part I)	Itai Dinur The k-XOR problem (Part I)	Elette Boyle Expander graphs and applications within distributed protocols and beyond (Part I)	Stefano Tessaro Techniques for indistinguishability proofs (Part II)
10:20 – 10:50	Break	Break	Break	Break
10:50 – 12:20	Gaëtan Leurent Cryptanalysis of hash functions and MACs based on the functional graph of random functions (Part I)	Yevgeniy Dodis Locally-computable symmetric cryptography and randomness extraction (Part I)	Stefano Tessaro Techniques for indistinguishability proofs (Part I)	Elette Boyle Expander graphs and applications within distributed protocols and beyond (Part II)
12:30 – 14:00	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
14:00 – 15:30	Krzysztof Pietrzak Notions of graph pebbling and their application to memory-hard functions, proofs of space, and adaptively secure cryptographic primitives and protocols (Part II)	Itai Dinur The k-XOR problem (Part II)	Excursion and Dinner – more info below	Tom Shrimpton Format-preserving and format-transf orming encryption (Part I)
15:30 – 16:00	Break	Break		Break
16:00 – 17:30	Gaëtan Leurent Cryptanalysis of hash functions and MACs based on the functional graph of random functions (Part II)	Yevgeniy Dodis Locally-computable symmetric cryptography and randomness extraction (Part II)		Tom Shrimpton Format-preserving and format-transforming encryption (Part II)

Excursion on Wednesday, 27 April 2022

14:15 – Start of Excursion

We will start our excursion onboard vintage Maltese busses known by locals as ‘Xarabank’. These buses were built by Maltese Bus Builders during the 1950s to the 1970s and came in all kinds of colors. The busses start close to L-Università ta‘ Malta, Campus Valletta, at 14:15 after lunch.

15:00 – Arrival at the Hagar Qim temple complex

Malta is home to several megalithic temples, most of which have been declared UNESCO World Heritage sites. The temple complex Ħaġar Qim (“Standing/Worshipping Stones”) is located on a hill on the southern edge of the island, on a crest covered with soft Globigerina limestone. The remains of these prehistoric monumental temples suggest a building date between between 3800 – 2200 BC, which makes them some of the earliest free standing stone buildings in the world. Only 500m away, you find the remarkable temples of Mnajdra. We will have a guided tour of Hagar Qim to get an insight into the rich megalithic culture of Malta, and you can opt to explore Mnajdra on your own.

16:15 – Pickup from Hagar Qim to Mdina through Ghar Lapsi and Dingli Cliffs

17:15 – Arrival at Mdina

Mdina, also known by its Italian-language titles Città Vecchia (“Old City”) and Città Notabile (“Notable City”), is a fortified city in the Northern Region of Malta which served as the island's capital from antiquity to the medieval period. The city is still confined within its walls, and has a population of under 300 people. It is on the tentative list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites.