πŸͺ‘ Session chair: Jan (Duties: Read material above-average carefully πŸ€“; prepare fallback discussions/questions (worst-case: just prepare some quiz questions about the material) πŸ™‹. Prepare a few slides to guide the session through subtopics (this is not supposed to be a detailed summary of the material)

✍️ Notetaker: Liz (Duties: Take notes during the session, push them to the wiki afterwards πŸ“. Moderate to get input for the wiki pages 🧠. Make people summarize / dumb down discussion results to keep things comprehensible for everyone πŸ§‘β€βš–οΈ.)

🎯 Goals

πŸ“š Material

πŸ“ Notes

Subsession 1 (Oct 31)

Subsession 2 (Nov 7)

Open questions:

  1. Why is it called β€œrank 1” constraint system?
  2. What’s a good example where R1CS is a much more efficient representation of the desired relation relation than an Algebraic Circuit?