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News
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**09.05.20**: 
    Fatemeh is giving guest lecture on Interoperability at CAS courses organised by University of Applied Science of Zurich (ZHAW).
    
**06.05.20**:
    Al will give a talk at Layer One online conference titled “Polkadot’s cross-chain Messaging Protocol”. 

**04.05.20**: 
    Jeff gave a talk at Layer One online conference titled “Availability & Validity on Polkadot”. 

**02.05.20**:
    The first version of the `Polkadot Overview paper <https://github.com/w3f/research/blob/master/docs/papers/OverviewPaper-V1.pdf>`_ is ready. Have a look!

**27.04.20**:
    Alfonso and Alistair prepared the first draft of the `NPoS paper <https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.12990>`_. Have a look!

**27.03.20**:
    Fatemeh is programm committee member of IWPE 2020. 
    
**05.03.20**:
    The interlay (http://interlay.io) project has been comissioned by Web3 Foundation to work on Bitcoin-Polkadot bridge specification. 

**19-20.02.20**:
    Alistair is going to attend the Standford Blockchain Conference 2020 and a co-located `Polkadot meetup <https://www.meetup.com/Polkadot-San-Francisco/events/268426884/>`_ organized by Web3 Foundation.

**10.02.20**
    Handan and Jeff attended Financial Crypto 2020 and presented their posters. 

**13.01.20**
    We published a medium blogpost on `XCMP <https://medium.com/web3foundation/polkadots-messaging-scheme-b1ec560908b7>`_ giving an overall overview of XCMP and descriping a number of design decisions. 

**20.12.19**
    We updated our `XCMP implementation considerations <https://research.web3.foundation/en/latest/polkadot/XCMP.html>`_. 

**05.12.19**
    Handan has finished a paper titled: `Consensus on Clock in Universally Composable Timing Model <https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/1348.pdf>`_. It is an updated version of Ouroboros Clepsydra that doesn’t rely on existence of some syncronized parties anymore.

**03.12.19**
    Syed attended the `ECC workshop <https://eccworkshop.org/2019/>`_ in Bochum, Germany.

**02.12.19**
    A poster from Jeff on incentivized mixing and a poster from Handan on consensus on clocks have been accepted at Financial Crypto 2020.

**28.11.19**
    Alistair gave a presentation on Polkadot's governance and participated in a panel at "the Governance on blockchain systems" meetup in Geneva, Switzerland.

**20.11.19**
    Some members of the research and HR teams will present a recruitment talk for masters and PhD students at EPFL, Switzerland.

**12.11.19**
    Alistair presented a poster session about the Grandpa finality gadget at the  Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CSS) in London.

**08.11.19**
    Alfonso and Syed hosted a 3 hour Thinktank session about Polkadot in Paris, organized by LaBChain and hosted by Caisse des Dépôts.

**30.10.19**
    Fatemeh gave a talk titled 'Decentralization and privacy' and Alfonso gave a talk introducing Polkadot's at a Web3 meetup.

**12.10.19**
    Alistair will be participating in panel at an event on cross-app communication organized by Near protocol right after Devcon 5.

**09.10.19**
    At Devcon day 1, Fatemeh will give a short presentation about Polkadot's needs for p2p. On day 4, Alistair will give a devcon talk on our availabiltiy and validity scheme. Also on day 4, Alfonso will give a short presentation about governenace.

**05.10.19**
    Alistair gave a talk at the `NodeTokyo 2019 <https://nodetokyo.jp/>`_ about our NPoS solution.

**17.09.19**
    Alistair's poster on GRANDPA has been accepted as an ACM CCS poster and will be pesented in CCS'19 in London.

**16.09.19**
    Alistair will be giving a number of talks in China in the next two weeks.

**18.08.19**
    Handan wrote a paper describing the relevant time technique used in Polkadot’s block production protocol BABE with the title: “Ouroboros Clepsydra: Ouroboros Praos in Universally Composable Relative Time Model” that will be shortly available online.

**15.08.19**
    Syed and Alfonso will hold an exercise session for Polkadot’s bridge design in Copenhagen Blockchain Summer School. In addition, Alfonso will be giving a talk at the Nordic Blockchain Summit 2019.

**05.08.19**
    Alistair, Fatemeh, and Jeff are in Berlin for our networking workshop with Parity.

**22.07.19**
    Alistair gave a number of talks focusing on Polkadot’s Validity and Avalibility scheme in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and Chengzhu during Polkadot China tour in July.

**28.06.19**
    Fatemeh is PC member for CBT 2019.