Episode 200: SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa
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200th Episode of Zero Knowledge Podcast! This week, Anna) chats with Alessandro Chiesa), a professor working on cryptography, complexity and security and one of the co-founders Zcash and StarkWare. Anna and Ale dig into some of the recent SNARK research coming out of his lab and discuss how to navigate the challenges of teaching in a space that changes quickly.

Here are some links for this episode:

• Episode 59: STARKs & StarkWare with Eli and Alessandro)

• Episode 114: Exploring the Fractal transparent SNARK construction)

• Summer school - Foundations and Frontiers of Probabilistic Proofs (virtual))

• Paper - Barriers for Succinct Arguments in the Random Oracle Model by Alessandro Chiesa and Eylon Yogev)

• Paper - Proof Carrying Data without Succinct Arguments)

• Paper - A Zero Knowledge Sumcheck and its Applications)

• Paper - Bulletproofs: Short Proofs for Confidential Transactions and More)

• Subquadratic SNARGs in the Random Oracle Model)

• Post-Quantum Succinct Arguments: Breaking the Quantum Rewinding Barrier)

• Paper - DIZK: A Distributed Zero Knowledge Proof System)

• Paper - Aurora: Transparent Succinct Arguments for R1CS)

• Alessandro Chiesa's website)

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