Preliminary Program
● This is a preliminary program and it is subject to possible changes
● Weekly calendar for BCS school is available as a Google calendar. Go to the bottom of this page to add it to your google calendar.
Please Note: changes on the program will be automatically updated on your calendar.
Monday June 24th
Lectures in 1C150; coffee breaks and lunch in 701
● 08:30 - 09:00 Registration
● 09:00 - 09:15 Prof. Patrizia Burra, Vice-rector for Postgraduate Education
● 09:15 - 09:30 Prof. Bruno Chiarellotto, Head of the Math Department
● 09:30 - 09:45 Prof. Luciano Gamberini, Director of the HIT Centre
● 09:45 - 10:00 Prof. Mauro Conti, Director of the School
● 10:00 - 10:30 Dr. Chhagan Lal, Executive Director of the School
● 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
● 11:00 - 13:00 Lecture: On the Security and Scalability of Existing Blockchains - Dr. Ghassan Karame, (NEC Labs, Germany)
● 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
● 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture: On the Security and Scalability of Existing Blockchains - Dr. Ghassan Karame, (NEC Labs, Germany)
● 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
● 16:30 - 18:30 Lecture: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies: Legal Aspects - Prof. Claudia Sandei, (University of Padova, Italy)
Tuesday June 25th
Lectures in 1C150; coffee breaks and lunch in 701
● 08:30 - 10:30 Lecture: Blockchain enabled Data Storage, Sharing and Trading - Prof. Sushmita Ruj, (ISI Kolkata, India)
● 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
● 11:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Efficient Blockchain-based Platforms to Secure Multi-Party Systems - Dr. Leonardo Aniello, (University of Southampton, UK)
● 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
● 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture: From 7 to 7000 transactions per second - Dr. Simone Bronzini, (Member of BlockchainEdu and CTO of Chainside, Italy)
● 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
● 16:30 - 18:30 Lecture: Detection of browser-based crytocurrency mining - Prof. Veelasha Moonsamy, (Radboud University, Netherlands)
Wednesday June 26th
Lectures in 1C150; coffee breaks and lunch in 701
● 08:30 - 10:30 Lecture: Blockchain technologies: transactions structure and possible attacks - Prof. Stefano Bistarelli, (University of Perugia, Italy)
● 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
● 11:00 - 12:00 Lecture: Blockchain enabled Data Storage, Sharing and Trading - Prof. Sushmita Ruj, (ISI Kolkata, India)
● 12:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Handling logic with blockchain, the tradeoff among simplicity, security, and flexibility - Prof. Pierluigi Gallo, (University of Palermo, Italy)
● 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
● 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture: Blockchain and Cryptocurrencies Security - Needs and Opportunities - Dr. Ernesto Ettore Troiano, (GFT Italia)
● 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
● 16:30 - 19:30 Social Event - Visit to the "Palazzo Bo" and "Scrovegni Chapel"
● 20:00 - 23:00 Social Dinner
Thursday June 27th
Lectures in 1C150; coffee breaks and lunch in 701
● 08:30 - 10:30 Lecture: TrustChain: Replacing Global Consensus with Trust - Prof. Jan Rellermeyer, (TU Delft, NL)
● 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
● 11:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Smart Contract Programming in Ethereum - Prof. Laura Ricci, (University of Pisa, Italy)
● 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
● 14:00 - 16:00 Lecture: Smart Contract Programming in Ethereum - Prof. Laura Ricci, (University of Pisa, Italy)
● 16:00 - 16:30 Coffee break
● 16:30 - 18:30 Lecture: Smart Contract Programming in Ethereum - Prof. Laura Ricci, (University of Pisa, Italy)
Friday June 28th
Lectures in 1C150; coffee breaks and lunch in 701
● 08:30 - 10:30 Lecture: IOTA, A ledger for the Internet of Things. Innovation opportunities and research challenges (Industry Talk) - Dr. Michele Nati, (IOTA Foundation, UK)
● 10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
● 11:00 - 13:00 Lecture: Blockchain Technology: the next revolution? - Dr. Chhagan Lal, (UNIPD, Italy)
● 13:00 - 14:00 Lunch
● 14:00 - 15:00 PhD Forum (a.k.a. "PhD Grill") -> includes the Final Exam
● 15:00 - 15:30 Final Remarks
● 15:30 - 16:00 Coffee break
