Episode 200: SNARK Research & Pedagogy with Alessandro Chiesa

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 Look out for ZK Hack  kicking off October 26th — a multi-round online event with workshops and puzzle solving competitions. Sign up at: https://www.zkhack.dev/ If you're in Lisbon in October for Lisbon Blockchain Week then join us for the official ZK Hack Kick-off Party! Thank you to this week’s sponsor. Centrifuge - A Real-world DeFi project. Centrifuge puts real-world assets on the blockchain, allowing issuers to get liquidity on their assets and investors to make a safe, stable yield in the volatile crypto world. They are hiring positions! Head to https://centrifuge.io/careers to learn more. If you like what we do: Subscribe to our podcast newsletter to not miss any event! Follow us on Twitter - @zeroknowledgefm Join us on Telegram Catch us on Youtube Read up on the r/ZKPodcast subreddit Give us feedback! -https://forms.gle/iKMSrVtcAn6BByH6A Support our Gitcoin Grant Support us on the ZKPatreon Donate through coinbase.commerce