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News
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**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.