14th LASER Summer School on Software Engineering

The combination of advances in distributed systems and cryptography is bringing about a revolution not only in finance, with Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, but in many other fields whose list keeps growing. The LASER 2018 summer school brings the best experts in the field, from both industry and academia, to provide an in-depth exploration of the fascinating software issues and solutions behind these breakthrough technology advances.

Speakers

We have lined up a unique group of lecturers:

Christian Cachin, IBM, on Secure distributed programming for blockchains
Primavera De Filippi, CNRS and Harvard, on Social and legal effects of distributed trust systems
Maurice Herlihy, Brown University, on Blockchains, Smart Contracts, & the future of distributed computing
Christoph Jentzsch, Slock.it, on Blockchains, Ethereum, Solidity, and Smart Contract Security
Bertrand Meyer, Politecnico di Milano and Innopolis, on Software engineering for distributed systems
Emin Gun Sirer, Cornell University, on High Performance Blockchain Infrastructure
Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Zurich, on Consensus
Dominic Wörner, Bosch, From the cloud-based Internet of Things to the Economy of Things
See lecture abstracts

See schedule

Audience

The school is intended for professionals from the industry (engineers and managers) as well as university researchers, including PhD students. The school’s focus is applied, although theory is welcome to establish solid foundations. The format of the school favors extensive interaction between participants and speakers.

Registration

To ensure the quality of interactions, the number of seats is limited. Only a few are available. Registration requests will be processed in the order received.

Current registration fees valid until May 25; to registration page: https://www.laser-foundation.org/school/2018/registration.html