Professor Julian Williams, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience Executive Director and Professor in Accounting and Finance, recently attended the Financial Cryptography and Data Security conference in Grenada.
Last year, the conference turned 25 years old and Professor Williams has been attending regularly since 2009. In that time, the event has grown from a specialist financial security workshop to the premier conference on cryptography in finance as the importance of this topic has exploded due to the rise of technologies such as Bitcoin and Ethereum and the significance of cryptography for securing transaction systems.
Professor Williams will be anchoring workshops with a technical talk on how to think about modelling risk in complex distributed systems such as those build around cryptocurrencies. Here, risk is complicated by the interplay of the technical and economic components. Professor William's approach is both reductionist (breaking things down carefully) and whole system in thinking, using various parts of the mathematics of set theory to help guide how to think about risk in this context.
For more information on the workshop:Financial Cryptography conference, May 2022
Contact the IHRR for more information: ihrr.admin@durham.ac.uk
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