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Research Retreat

Post-ETHBerlin 2024
26.05. - 31.05.

Beginner Intermediate Advanced Expert
Time Event 1 Event 2
08:00PM Departure from Berlin
11:00PM Arrival to Castle & Check in
Time Event 1 Event 2
08:00AM
10:00AM
Breakfast
Welcome & Opening
Activities
Castle Tour
12:00PM
02:00PM
Lunch
MEV
Fixing MEV: Agent-based modelling of Execution Tickets

Pascal Sticher and Christian Haug - ephema
MEV
Blockspace markets

Andrew Macpherson - Shtuka Research
03:15PM
04:00PM
Coffee Break
Miscellaneous
Bounded Reflective Oracles and Applications to Game Theory

Yudhister Kumar - MATS / FOCAL@CMU
Miscellaneous
Implication of AI Tools DAO Governance

Monica Tsang - University of Waterloo
Activities
Escape Room
Miscellaneous
Defining Standards and Improving Composability of Data in Decentralized Networks with The Graph

Kevin Jones - The Graph
Miscellaneous
Fusion 2.0 Explained: Innovations, Benefits, and Development Insights

Ilya Shkurenko and Nikita Kozlov - 1inch
06:00PM
08:00PM
Dinner
08:00PM
11:00PM
Activities
Cocktail Hour
Time Event 1 Event 2
08:00AM Activities
Yoga & Meditation
08:00AM
10:00AM
Breakfast
Miscellaneous
Verifiable Credentials on chain

Frederik Rothenberger - Dfinity
Miscellaneous
Transfer abstraction

Hugo Montenegro - Peanut Protocol
Miscellaneous
Securing cross-chain communication

Martin Eckardt - Ava Labs
12:00PM
02:00PM
Lunch
Miscellaneous
How to hack on Bitcoin: Runes & Ordinals

raphjaph - Ordinals
Miscellaneous
Functional programming in smart contracts on æternity

Philipp Piwowarsky - æternity
03:15PM
04:00PM
Coffee Break
Cryptography
Intro to Elliptic Curve Crypto

Anirudha Bose - Brave
Cryptography
KZG and Formal Verification

Tobias Rothmann - TUM/TBC
Cryptography
PlonK

Marek Kirejczyk - vlayerc
Activities
Escape Room
06:00PM
08:00PM
Dinner
08:00PM
11:00PM
Activities
Board Games
Time Event 1 Event 2
08:00AM Activities
Yoga & Meditation
08:00AM
10:00AM
Breakfast
Cryptography
Multi-Polynomial Commitments

Sergei Iakovenko - Aztec
Activities
Spa (if weather good)
Cryptography
FRI, STIR, Binius PCS

Ignacio Manzur - Nethermind
Activities
Spa (if weather good)
Rollups
Escape Hatches

Omar Espejel - Starknet Foundation
Activities
Spa (if weather good)
12:00PM
02:00PM
Lunch
Cryptography
New trends in lookup and folding schemes

Albert Garreta - Nethermind
Cryptography
The current state of FHE

Murat Saglam - Self Employed
03:15PM
04:00PM
Coffee Break
Cryptography
Research Group
Cryptography
Research Group
Miscellaneous
Workshop: Building an automative trading bot with 1inch SDK

Nikita Kozlov - 1inch
Cryptography
Research Group
Miscellaneous
How to run your own Etherium Node

Orest Tarasiuk - zkWarsaw
06:00PM
08:00PM
Dinner
08:00PM
11:00PM
Activities
Move Night
Time Event 1 Event 2
08:00AM Activities
Yoga & Meditation
08:00AM
10:00AM
Breakfast
Rollups
Intro to Scalability

Orest Tarasiuk - zkWarsaw
Rollups
Current State of L2

Luca Donno - L2Beat
12:00PM
02:00PM
Lunch
Rollups
Sequencing rules in EVM blockchains

Dias Alymbekov - Dune Analytics / TUM
Rollups
Type 1 zk-EVMs

Jünger - Taiko
03:15
04:00PM
Coffee Break
Rollups
Research Group
Rollups
Polygon Miden / Light Clients

Paul-Henry - Polygon Labs
Rollups
Research Group
Miscellaneous
Workshop: Efficient Communication of Advanced Crypto Topics

Wolfgang Vitale - Bitcoin Suisse
Rollups
Research Group
07:00PM
09:00PM
Activities
Gala Dinner
09:00PM
open-end
Activities
Rave
Time Event 1 Event 2
08:00AM
10:00AM
Breakfast
10:30AM Check out & Departure
12:00PM Arrival in Leipzig