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  • May
    27

    CS Colloquium - Dongning Guo - "The Nakamoto Consensus and Its Probabilistic Security Guarantee"

    Department of Computer Science

    12:00 PM Zoom, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library)

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    Title:
    The Nakamoto Consensus and Its Probabilistic Security Guarantee

    Abstract
    The Nakamoto consensus is at the core of many peer-to-peer blockchain systems, including the well-known bitcoin network. In this lecture, we describe a continuous-time probabilistic model for mining and blockchains. We impose no restrictions on adversarial miners except for an upper bound on their aggregate mining rate. The only assumption about the mining network is that block propagation delays are bounded. We develop the first published rigorous proof of the Nakamoto consensus’ security guarantee in continuous time. In particular, but for a small probability exponential in k, a transaction that is k-deep in some credible blockchain remains permanent in all future credible blockchains.

    Biography
    Dongning Guo joined the faculty of Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA, in 2004, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received the B.Eng. degree from the University of Science and Technology of China, the M.Eng. degree from the National University of Singapore, and the M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA. He was an R&D Engineer in the Center for Wireless Communications (now the Institute for Infocom Research), Singapore, from 1998 to 1999.

    He has held visiting positions at Norwegian University of Science and Technology in summer 2006, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2010-2011, and at Massachusettes Institute of Technology in 2014-2015. He has been an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, an Editor of Foundations and Trends in Communications and Information Theory, and a Guest Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications.

    Dongning Guo received the National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award in 2007, the IEEE Marconi Prize Paper Award in Wireless Communications in 2010, and the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference in 2017.

    His research interests are in information theory, communications, networking, and signal processing, with applications to the Internet of Things and 5G cellular networks.

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    TIME Wednesday, May 27, 2020 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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  • Aug
    20

    Alumni Education Webinar: McCormick School of Engineering's Strategic Vision

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    12:00 PM

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    TIME Wednesday, August 20, 2025 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Sep
    8

    Welcome & Breakfast for New McCormick PhD Students

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    9:00 AM LR2 & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, September 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM

    LOCATION LR2 & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute    map it

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    12

    New Undergraduate Fall 2025 Registration

    University Academic Calendar

    All Day

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    TIME Friday, September 12, 2025

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    15

    Welcome & Luncheon for New Full-time Graduate Students

    McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

    11:00 AM Ryan Auditorium & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute

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    TIME Monday, September 15, 2025 at 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

    LOCATION Ryan Auditorium & Tech East Plaza, Technological Institute    map it

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    CONTACT Andi Joppie    andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science

  • Sep
    16

    Fall Classes Begin. Change of Registration (Drop/Add) Late registration for returning students begins

    University Academic Calendar

    All Day

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    TIME Tuesday, September 16, 2025

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    CONTACT Office of the Registrar    nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL

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  • Sep
    25

    Bagel Thursday

    Department of Computer Science (CS)

    9:00 AM

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    TIME Thursday, September 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM

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    CONTACT Wynante R Charles    wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL

    CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)