Abstract

The topic of this conference is the mathematical foundations of the Internet and blockchain economy. Over the past several decades, the world has witnessed the flourish of the Internet as well as the explosive growth of blockchains. They have connected billions of people and supported a large economy crossing the digital world and the physical world. With its unique properties such as large-scale consensus, trustworthiness and user-programmable smart contracts, blockchains may potentially change the traditional economy and open new avenues for growth and innovation. Mathematical studies have been instrumental to such developments, providing deep insights and solid foundations to many applications. To achieve higher economic goals in these rapidly evolving systems and to guide their sustainable growth, it is crucial to develop rigorous theories and technologies with reliable guarantees. This conference brings together experts from home and abroad in multiple disciplines, such as mathematics, theoretical computer science, game theory, economics, and operations research, to facilitate discussions on the latest developments in the Internet and blockchain economy, identify important mathematical challenges and pave the way for scientific collaborations that will eventually lead to the solutions. The conference provides a platform for attendees to learn about latest results from different domains, while also fosters networking and educational opportunities with their peers and established experts.

本次会议以“互联网和区块链经济的数学基础”为主题。在过去的几十年，互联网的蓬勃发展以及区块链的爆炸式增长，使得数十亿人得以连接，形成了跨越数字世界和物理世界的庞大经济。区块链所具有的如大规模共识、可信赖性和用户可编程的智能合约等独特性质，极有可能改变传统经济，为其增长和创新开辟新的道路。数学研究在此类发展中发挥着至关重要的作用，为许多应用提供了深入见解和坚实基础。为了在这些迅速发展的系统中实现更高的经济目标，引导经济的可持续增长，开发具有可靠保证的严谨理论和技术是至关重要的。本次会议汇集了来自国内外的多学科专家，如数学、理论计算机科学、博弈论、经济学和运筹学，以促进关于互联网和区块链经济的最新发展的讨论，确定其中的重要数学挑战，并为科学合作铺平道路，最终寻求解决方案。会议为与会者提供了一个平台，让他们了解来自不同领域的最新成果，同时也促进了与同行和知名专家的交流与合作。

Description of the aim

The primary goal of this workshop is to bring researchers from different places together to brain-storm on important challenges in the Internet and blockchain economy. By fusing in-person collaborations on the mathematical aspects of related domains, it will identify new problems, ignite long-term works and eventually solutions with a rigorous theoretical foundation. Indeed, because of the rapid development of Internet and blockchain economy, many exiting solutions are driven by heuristics while solid mathematical modeling and understanding has been lacking, which from time to time causes serious damages to the security and social efficiency of the corresponding economy. The workshop will invite top researchers from both the theoretical front and the application front to share their work and participate in panel discussions and fire-side chats, so as to enhance the mutual understanding among researchers with different pursuits. This way, theoretical studies on Internet and blockchain economy will be able to address pain-points in the industry more directly and lay a solid mathematical foundation for the economy, so as to strengthen the economy's growth in the long run. Also importantly, the workshop will bring together researchers at different career stages, from established experts to graduate-students-to-be, for educational and advisal purposes, which is critical for the healthy and long-term development of related domains.

本次会议的主要目标在于汇聚来自不同地区的研究人员，共同探讨互联网和区块链经济领域的重要挑战。为了确定新问题并寻求具有严谨的理论基础的解决方案，会议将组织相关领域进行数学研究方面的面对面合作，以激发对于长期工作的启示。由于互联网和区块链经济的快速发展，许多现有的解决方案往往基于经验和启发式方法，缺乏坚实的数学建模和理解，而这种理论基础的欠缺时常给经济安全和社会效率带来严重损害。会议将邀请来自理论和应用前沿的顶级研究人员分享他们的工作并参与圆桌研讨，以增强不同领域的研究人员之间的相互理解。由此，互联网和区块链经济的理论研究将能够更直接地解决行业痛点，并为实际经济奠定坚实的数学基础，进而加强经济的长期增长。同时，会议将汇集处于不同职业阶段的研究人员，从知名专家到即将成为研究生的学生，实现教育和指导目的，以促进相关领域的健康和长期发展。

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