Simons Institute Courses

Lattices and Encrypted Computation

Explore lattice-based cryptography, focusing on fully homomorphic encryption and its breakthroughs. Learn about key switching, modular computation, and multi-key encryption in this advanced talk.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Using Lattices for Cryptanalysis

Explore lattice-based cryptanalysis techniques, including Coppersmith's method and attacks on NTRU, with applications to breaking classical cryptography and solving mathematical problems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 4 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Algebraic Lattices and Ring Learning With Errors

Explore algebraic lattices and Ring Learning with Errors, covering key concepts, operations, and hardness theorems in cryptography and lattice-based algorithms.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Learning With Errors Problem and Cryptographic Applications

Explore the Learning With Errors problem, its quantum reductions, and cryptographic applications in lattice-based cryptography, including digital signatures and security trapdoors.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 28 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Complexity of Lattice Problems

Explore lattice problems' complexity, including shortest vector problem, hardness of approximation, and open challenges in lattice-based cryptography.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 3 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Algorithms for Lattice Problems

Explore lattice algorithms, complexity, and cryptography, covering key problems, civic algorithms, and open challenges in this comprehensive overview of lattice theory and applications.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 13 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Zexe- Enabling Decentralized Private Computation

Explore decentralized private computation with ZEXE, addressing scalability and privacy in blockchain systems for digital asset trading and custom access control.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

WAVE: A Decentralized Authorization Framework from Transparency Logs

Explore decentralized authorization with WAVE, a framework leveraging transparency logs. Learn about challenges, graph-based approaches, and comparisons to traditional systems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 7 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Game Theory Applied to Mining Pools, Token Offering, DAO, and Consensus Protocols

Explore game theory applications in blockchain, including mining pools, token offerings, DAOs, and consensus protocols. Gain insights into economic models and strategic decision-making in cryptocurrency ecosystems.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Blockchain and Economics - Progress and Open Questions

Explore economic design in blockchain, focusing on performance incentives, market institutions, and governance in decentralized systems. Learn about applications and open questions in this emerging field.

• YouTube
• 51 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Trusted Execution Environments Meet the Blockchain

Explore trusted execution environments, blockchain integration, and innovative solutions like TEEChain for secure, efficient payment channels and large-scale consensus mechanisms.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Algorand - A Secure, Scalable and Decentralized Blockchain

Explore Algorand's innovative blockchain technology, focusing on its pure proof-of-stake system, permissionless protocol, and unique approaches to consensus and scalability challenges.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

PBFT and Blockchains

Explore Byzantine Fault Tolerance, remote file systems, and blockchain concepts with MIT's Barbara Liskov. Gain insights into large-scale consensus, crosschain deals, and atomic transactions.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 5 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Secure Multiparty Computation

Explore secure multiparty computation techniques for protecting data confidentiality while enabling collaborative analysis, from encryption to advanced protocols like BGW and Yao's.

• YouTube
• 54 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Identification and Estimation of Dynamic Structural Models with Unobserved Choices

Explore dynamic structural models with unobserved choices, focusing on identification, estimation, and applications in information design and data science.

• YouTube
• 44 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video