RAM Crypto School
Outreach and Summer Programs
- Raising A Mathematician Training Program
- 2025, 2023
- A crash course on consensus based on Foundations of Blockchains (Tim Roughgarden)
- An overview of cryptoeconomics based on Foundations of Blockchains (Tim Roughgarden), Revisiting the Primitives of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design, Breaking Omertà: On Threshold Cryptography, Smart Collusion, and Whistleblowing (upcoming)
- 2024
- An introduction to online optimization- prophet inequalities, the secretary problem, and exponential weights
- CS, Econ, Math and Everything in Between – based on “Combinatorial Pen Testing (or Consumer Surplus of Deferred-Acceptance Auctions)”
- 2025, 2023
- Program for Algorithmic and Combinatorial Thinking
- 2025, 2024
- An introduction to longest chain consensus based on Tim Roughgarden’s notes
- Selfish mining on proof-of-work longest chain protocols by Eyal and Sirer
- 2023
- An introduction to prophet inequalities
- 2025, 2024
- Math.Biz
- 2024
- An introduction to transaction fee mechanism design– based on Revisiting the Primitives of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design
- Additional Reading:
- An overview on transaction fee mechanisms: Transaction Fee Mechanism Design (Roughgarden, 2021), Foundations of Transaction Fee Mechanism Design (Chung and Shi, 2023)
- An overview on mechanism design: Algorithmic Game Theory (CS364a 2013) by Tim Roughgarden (lectures 1-5 in particular)
- 2024