TPMPC 2025

The 11th Theory and Practice of Multi-Party Computation Workshop (TPMPC 2025) will be held at A. V. Rama Rao Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India from Monday, March 3rd to Thursday, March 6th, 2025.

We are looking forward to make this a great event! More details are coming soon, stay tuned!

Program

The program consists of talks by invited speakers as well as several contributed talks and a rump session. 

Venue: A V Rama Rao Auditorium

Registration: March 3rd, 8:30 to 9:00 AM IST 

The final program is as follows:

Venue Wi-fi Credentials 

The venue has Wi-fi available. Please contact the front desk for details.

Live viewing link 

Click here to watch the livestreaming of the event.

In the campus 

The event will take place at the IISc campus, at the A V Rama Rao Auditorium. 

For easy transportation within the campus, special e-rcikshaws have been arranged for the exclusive use of all TPMPC participants. They can be used to commute from the in-campus accomodation spots to the venue.

In the campus, there are some options to dine in:

• Nesara Restaurant (a multi-cuisine restaurant)

• Sarvam Complex (a food court with several stalls serving variety of food)

• Sanvi Star Canteen (a canteen close to the auditorium)

• Janata Bazaar (a supermarket with eating options available)

• The Food Truck (a food truck that serves South Indian vegeterian food)

• Kabini (a canteen that serves South Indian vegeterian food)

• Ranjit (a good option for lunch or evening snacks)

Other than that, food delivery services are offered within the campus by aggregators like Swiggy, Zomato, Ola and MagicPin. There are some good restaurant options outside the campus also in the New BEL Road or Maleswaram areas and they can be viewed from Google Maps, Swiggy Dineout or Zomato Dining.

Rump Session 

There will be a Rump Session on Tuesday March 4th from 4:10pm. The Rump Session will include entertaining presentations on recent results, breaking news and other topics of interest. To submit a talk, please send an email with the subject "Rump session TPMPC 2025" to tpmpc2025[dot]csa[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in with the following details, by  4th March 2025 12pm IST:

• Speaker name

• Talk title

• Slides (pdf, max 10 slides) 

• Requested talk length (max. 5 min)

• This talk is: funny/mostly funny/mostly serious/very boring but willing to bribe (please select one)

Code of conduct 

We want to make TPMPC a great experience for everyone!​ Therefore, we want to create a safe space where any form of discrimination or harassment –​ be it on the basis of your identity or age – will not be tolerated.​ Should anything happen that crosses your boundaries, you can always approach the organization team with any concern – either personally or via email.​

• Arpita Patra
  Contact: https://www.csa.iisc.ac.in/~arpita/

We assure that your concern will be treated confidentially.​​

Organization 

Local Organizers

• Arpita Patra (Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)

• Shyam S M (IISc Bangalore)

• Shravani Patil (IISc Bangalore)

Administrative Organization

• CSA Office (Indian Institute of Science): office [DOT] csa [AT] iisc [DOT] ac [DOT] in

Program Committee

• Gilad Asharov  (Bar-Ilan University)

• Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University)

• Yashvanth Kondi (Silence Laboratories)

• Claudio Orlandi (Aarhus University)

• Arpita Patra (Indian Institute of Science Bangalore)

• Sikhar Patranabis (IBM Research)

• Divya Ravi (University of Amsterdam)

• Mike Rosulek (Oregon State University)

• Peter Scholl (Aarhus University)

• Thomas Schneider (Technical University of Darmstadt)

• Ajith Suresh (Technology Innovation Institute)

Steering Committee

• Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University)

• Carmit Hazay (Bar-Ilan University)

• Claudio Orlandi (Aarhus University)

• Arpita Patra (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)

• Mike Rosulek (Oregon State University)

• Thomas Schneider (Technical University of Darmstadt)

Invited speakers 

We are delighted to have talks from the following 10 confirmed invited speakers:

• Erica Blum (Reed College)

• Ashish Choudhury (International Institute of Information Technology)

• Ivan Damgård (Aarhus University)

• Carmit Hazay (Bar-Ilan University)

• Yashvanth Kondi (Silence Laboratories)

• Manoj M. Prabhakaran (IIT Bombay Trust Lab)

• Luisa Sinisscalchi (Technical University of Denmark)

• Christian Weinert (Royal Holloway University of London)

• Hossein Yalame (Robert Bosch GmbH)

• Chen-Da Liu Zhang (Web3 Foundation & Luzern U)

The talk details will be updated soon.

Call for contributed talks 

Submission Deadline: Tue, October 15, 2024, 23:59 (AoE)

Notification: Mon, November 18, 2024

The 11th TPMPC Workshop seeks submissions for contributed talks in the area of the theory and/or practice of secure multiparty computation. The workshop does not have proceedings and hence, the submission can be based on either work in progress, papers in submission, or papers already published at a conference, workshop or journal. Areas of interest broadly include

• Theoretical foundations of multiparty computation: feasibility, assumptions, asymptotic efficiency, etc.


• Efficient MPC protocols for general or specific tasks of interest


• Implementations, applications of, and tools for MPC

The TPMPC program committee will select talks with the aim of constructing a balanced program that will be of high interest to the audience.

Submission Details:


• Contributed talks will be 20-30 minutes in-person talks in Bangalore.

• The submission deadline for contributed talks is on Tuesday, October 15, 2024 (anywhere on Earth).


• Notification of acceptance can be expected by Friday, November 15, 2024.


• Please submit by sending an email to tpmpc2025.csa@iisc.ac.in with the subject "TPMPC Contributed Talk: <YOUR TALK TITLE>" with the following details:

  • Title

  • Authors and affiliations (also cc all contact authors on the email)

  • Speaker's name (who will register and give the presentation in person)

  • Speaker's position (e.g., PhD student, postdoc, ...)

  • Link to full paper (optional)

  • Published at (optional)

  • PDF containing a short summary (up to 2 pages excluding references, in LNCS format using \usepackage{fullpage}, need not be anonymized) of your proposed talk

Registration 

Registrations are now closed.

Registration is open and can be done here. The deadline for registration is 16th February 2025 (AoE).  Registration confirmations will be sent via email.

For visitors seeking conference visa from Indian Embassy, please write to us at tpmpc2025[dot]csa[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in by 30th November 2024 (AoE).

Registration is free but mandatory.

Accommodation

If you wish to stay at a hotel near the venue, the following are some great options:

• Sheraton Grand Bangalore Hotel at Brigade Gateway (5 stars) [3.0 km from venue]

• Four Seasons Hotel at Embassy One (5 stars) [5.1km from venue]

• Hotel Leroy Grand (4 stars) [4.2km from venue]

• The Fern Residency, Yeshwantpur (3 stars) [3.9km from venue]

• Holiday Inn Express, Yeshwantpur (3 stars) [3.4km from venue]

Student stipends 

We have a limited number of stipends to support students to attend the workshop. Preference will be given to students who have limited funding from other sources (e.g., from institutions without access to large travel funds).

• The deadline for stipend applications is 20 December 2024 12 January 2025.

• Requests can be made after 20 December 2024, but they will not be considered until the initial decisions are made.

• To be considered for the stipend, the applicant should send an email to tpmpc2025[dot]csa[at]iisc[dot]ac[dot]in with the subject: "TPMPC student stipend application" containing the following details.

  • Name

  • Email ID

  • Status (Master's student/PhD student/Post doc/...)

  • Gender (F/M/D)

  • Affiliation

  • Country

  • Are you a contributed talk speaker?

  • An estimate of the expected funding for attending the workshop together with detailed breakdown of expenses excluding the registration fee but including costs such as travel expenses (by land/air), accommodation, etc.

  • A single PDF containing your CV, recent transcripts that corroborate the grades listed in the CV, and letter of motivation addressing why you should be funded

  • Please keep your supervisor in CC and ask them to confirm your application by email.

• Applicants should note that the stipend may not be able to cover the entire attendance cost and that they may need to fund the remaining cost from other sources. 

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