The 2nd Crypto Innovation School (CIS 2019)

An IACR Cryptology School

Dates: December 13th-December 15th, 2019

Location: Shanghai, China. Shanghai, on China's central coast, is the country's biggest city and a global financial hub. Its heart is the Bund, a famed waterfront promenade lined with colonial-era buildings. Across the Huangpu River rises the Pudong district's futuristic skyline, including 632m Shanghai Tower and the Oriental Pearl TV Tower, with distinctive pink spheres. Sprawling Yu Garden has traditional pavilions, towers and ponds.

Objective: After the first successful crypto innovation school last year, the organizers continue to hold the second CIS winter school this year. CIS2019 has gained support from Tsinghua University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University as well as industry funding sources. Although the main targeted audience are graduate students, postdocs (and young faculties) in cryptography from the Asia-pacific region (mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea,Singapore, Australia), the winter school is open to researchers of all levels and from all around the globe. All lectures and talks will be delivered in English.

Affiliated event: Crypto innovation school competition (CISC) is a new annual event under crypto innovation school. Offered with generous rewards, CISC aims to encourage and promote creative and talented works on cryptography. Winners of the competition this year will be formally announced during CIS 2019. More information and details of CISC can be found at the competition website.

Topic

The theme of the winter school this year is lattice-based cryptography, which includes (but is not limited to) the mathematical foundations of lattice, lattice reduction and advanced cryptographic schemes based on lattices.

Registration

The school intends to admit 100 (and more up to the maximum capacity of the venue) attendees. Registration is free, but due to the limited number of space and budget, attendees need to apply for admission. Participants are required to have taken at least one university-level course in cryptography in advance. In addition, applicants who are not native English speakers are expected to exhibit good English skills in their CV. Applications are considered at the discretion of organizers on a first-come-first-served basis until the capacity is reached. Further, 10 stipends each of $500 (or equivalent) are available to students unable to obtain funding to attend the conference.

To apply for admission, send your CV to crypto.cis2019@gmail.com and in the meantime please indicate if you are eligible (i.e., as a student have no financial support for this trip) for the student stipend.

Application deadline: October 30, 2019
Notification date: November 10, 2019

Venue

Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai

Located in Shanghai, the city where Eastern tradition and modern influences fuse to provide a vibrant cultural backdrop, the Himalayas Hotel stands as an iconic landmark of this eclectic fusion. Designed by Arata Isozaki, our hotel’s architecture and interiors take inspiration from the cultural essence of China. From the artwork across the hotel's 16-metre-high lobby that tells a 5,000-year-old story to all the modern facilities that lace the bars, restaurants, rooms, and conference halls, every aspect symbolises unity, prosperity and good luck.

The Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel (Zhuomeiya Ximalaya Jiudian) offers 5-star luxury in the heart of Pudong with direct underground access to the Shanghai New International Expo Center and the leafy environs of  Century Park. It's also just a short walk from the  Shanghai Maglev train station, which takes just seven minutes to reach Pudong International Airport .

Invited Speakers (tentative)

Schedule

Date
 Time    Activity

13th Dec

The whole day

Registration

14th Dec

8:00-8:20

Opening
8:20-8:40

CISC winner announcement

8:40-10:10

Chris Peikert: Basics and fundamentals of lattice cryptography (slides) (video part 1) (video part 2)

10:20-11:20

Vadim Lyubashevsky: Lattice Signatures, Commitments, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (I) (slides including part I and II) (video)

11:30-12:30

Vadim Lyubashevsky: Lattice Signatures, Commitments, and Zero-Knowledge Proofs (II) (video)

12:30-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:00

Elette Boyle: Homomorphic Secret Sharing and Applications from Lattice-Based Assumptions (I) (slides) (video)

15:10-16:10

Elette Boyle: Homomorphic Secret Sharing and Applications from Lattice-Based Assumptions (II) (slides) (video)

16:20-17:20

Hoeteck Wee: Encrypted Computation from Lattices (I) (slides) (video)

17:30-18:30

Hoeteck Wee: Encrypted Computation from Lattices (II) (slides) (video)

18:30-21:00

Dinner
15th Dec

8:30-9:30

Phong Q. Nguyen: Theory and Applications of Lattice Reduction (I) (video)

9:40-10:40

Phong Q. Nguyen: Theory and Applications of Lattice Reduction (II) (video)

10:50-11:50

Chris Peikert:  Noninteractive Zero Knowledge for all of NP from plain LWE (slides) (video part 1) (video part 2)

11:50-13:20

Lunch

13:20-14:20

Ron Steinfeld: Middle-Product Learning with Errors (MP-LWE) and its Hardness (slides) (video)

14:30-16:00

Ron Steinfeld: Applications of MP-LWE (slides) (video)

16:10-17:10

Yilei Chen: Lattice-Based Multilinear Maps: Constructions and Applications (I) (slides including part I and II) (video)

17:20-18:20

Yilei Chen: Lattice-Based Multilinear Maps: Constructions and Applications (II) (video)
The lecture videos are also available on Tencent(QQ) Video for domestic audience:
  • Chris' talks: first talk part 1; first talk part 2; second talk part 1; second talk part 2
  • Vadim's talk: part 1; part 2
  • Elette's talk: part 1; part 2
  • Hoeteck's talk: part 1; part 2
  • Phong's talk: part 1; part 2
  • Ron's talk: part 1; part 2
  • Yilei's talk: part 1; part 2

    • Honorary Chair

    • Andrew Chi-Chih Yao
      (Tsinghua University)

    General Co-chairs

    • Xiaoyun Wang
      (Tsinghua University)
    • Yu Yu
      (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

    Executive Chair

    • Lilin Sun
      (PlatON)

    Organizing Committee

    • Man Ho (Allen) Au
      (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
    • Jie Chen
      (East China Normal University)
    • Yi Deng
      (IIE, Chinese Academy of Science)
    • Chun Guo
      (Shandong University)
    • Debiao He
      (Wuhan University)
    • Zhen Liu
      (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
    • Xiao Wang
      (Northwestern University)
    • Xiang Xie
      (PlatON)
    • Tsz Hon (John) Yuen
      (The University of Hong Kong)
    • Jiang Zhang
      (State Key Laboratory of Cryptology)

    Organizers

    IACR Cryptology School


    Contact

    crypto.cis2019@gmail.com

    Accommodation

    Jumeirah Himalayas Hotel Shanghai. No.1108 Meihua Rd, Shi Ji Gong Yuan, Pudong New Area, Shanghai City, China.
    Note we're not providing accommodation arrangements. You may make the bookings via Booking.com, TripAdvisor, Ctrip or other hotels in the neighborhood.

    Travel

    I.Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport——Jumeirah Himalayas

    1.Get on Hongyu Elevated Rd from Hongxiang 3rd Rd and Shenda 5th Rd; (5 min, 1.8 km)

    2.Take Yan'an Elevated Rd and Inner Ring Elevated Rd to Long Yang Rd in Pudong Xinqu. Exit from Inner Ring Elevated Rd; (33min, 27.6 km)

    3.Take Fang Dian Rd to your destination. (5min, 1.2 km)

    II.Shanghai Pudong International Airport——Jumeirah Himalayas

    1.Get on S1 Yingbin Expressway from Pudong Airport Rd; (2 min, 1.4 km)

    2.Continue on S1 Yingbin Expressway. Take S20 Outer Ring Expressway/Huannan 1st Avenue and Luo shan Rd to Long Yang Rd. Exit from 611 County Rd/Luo Shan Rd; (26 min, 31.6 km)

    3.Continue on Long Yang Rd to your destination. (5min, 1.4 km)