2025 Archimedes Summer School on Blockchain, Economics, and AI (May 22-24, 2025)

This summer school is being organized by Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, and is being supported by Möbby.ai.

Participation at Hackathon
(taking place on Day 3 - Saturday, 24 May 2025; includes Rust programming and Blockchain challenges)
👉🏻 More information here: https://lnkd.in/dUZTF7JC

The purpose of this summer school is to bring together leading experts and interested researchers in the fields of Blockchain, Economics, and Artificial Intelligence, and to provide the opportunity for young and experienced coders to participate in a hackathon with blockchain challenges.

Day 1 (Thursday, May 22):

Focus on Blockchain, Foundations, and Distributed Ledger Technologies
Chair: Vassilis Zikas, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Georgia Tech, USA & Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece & Möbby.ai

9:00 – 9:50:
Coffee & Cookies will be available

9:50 – 10:00:
Opening Remarks
Aris Pagourtzis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece & Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece
Vassilis Zikas, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Georgia Tech, USA & Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece & Möbby.ai

10:00 – 11:30:
Lecture 1 - “Cryptographic Foundations of Blockchains”
Juan Garay, Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Texas A&M University, USA & Global Cyber Research Institute Texas A&M University, USA

11:30 – 12.00:
Coffee Break

12.00 – 1:30:
Lecture 2 - “From Distributed Computing to Blockchain”
Ran Cohen, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, Reichman University, Israel & FACT (Foundations and Applications of Cryptographic Theory) Research Center, Israel

1.30 – 3.30:
Lunch (Catered)

3:30 – 5:00:
Lecture 3 - “Blockchains based on Different Resources”
Michele Ciampi, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK & Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, UK

5:00 – 5.30:
Coffee Break

5.30 – 6.00:
Students' Talks

Day 2 (Friday, May 23):

Focus on Game Theory, Economics, and AI

Chair: Aris Pagourtzis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA, Greece & Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

9:00 – 10.00:
Coffee & Cookies will be available

10.00 – 11.00:
Lecture 4 - “Cryptography and Game Theory”
Athina Terzoglou, Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, USA

11.00 – 12.00:
Lecture 5 - “Reputation Games & Applications to Proof of Reputation”
Vassilis Zikas, School of Cybersecurity and Privacy, Georgia Tech, USA & Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece & Möbby.ai

12.00 – 12:30:
Coffee Break

12:30 – 2:00:
Lecture 6 - “Crypto Economics”
Julien Prat, Researcher at CNRS-CREST (Center for Research in Economics and Statistics) & Blockchains and Platforms at École Polytechnique, France

2:00 – 3.30:
Lunch (Catered)

3:30 – 4:30:
Lecture 7 - “Pool Formation in Oceanic Games: Shapley Value and Proportional Sharing”
Evangelos Markakis, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece & Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

4.30 – 5.30:
Research Talks on Blockchain and Economics (Students & Participants)

Day 3 (Saturday, May 24):

Training Sessions & Hackathon
Chair: Muhammad Ishaq, Möbby.ai (Sunday Group)

9.00 – 10.00:
Coffee and Cookies will be available

10.00 – 11.00:
Session 1 - “Session for Setting-up and Testing Hackathon Environment”
Muhammad Ishaq, Chief Technology Officer at Möbby.ai
Dimitris Starantzis, System Software Engineer at Möbby.ai

11.00 – 12:30:
Session 2 - “Training Session on Hackathon”
Muhammad Ishaq Malik, Chief Technology Officer at Möbby.ai
Dimitris Starantzis, System Software Engineer at Möbby.ai

12:30 - 4.00:
Lunch (Catered) & Hackathon

Read more info at: https://archimedesai.gr/en/events/summer-school-blockchain-economics-ai