Informal Readings @Porto

In Informal Readings we meet on a monthly basis to discuss interesting papers and new results of interest to distributed systems research. We gather a small group of researchers from University of Porto, as well as graduate students and guests from other institutions.

For each session, a paper is chosen by a prospective Reader and communicated in advance. During the session the Reader describes the paper (possibly, but not necessarily, using slides) in order to start a brief discussion on the topic. Sessions will be limited to one hour.

Session proposals should be sent to any of the organizers, for scheduling.

A mailing list dedicated to session announcements is hosted in Google Groups. Please ask one organiser to be added.

Locations

Meeting room I125 at DEI FEUP or room FC6 005 at FCUP

Organizers

• Carlos Baquero, FEUP
• João Resende, DCC
• Francisco Maia, FEUP

Schedule

• FEUP. Wed, July 9th, 2025, 16h00. Reader Carlos Baquero. Paper by Lei Yang, Yossi Gilad, Mohammad Alizadeh Practical Rateless Set Reconciliation, ACM SIGCOMM 2024.
• FCUP. Wed, October 8th, 2025, 14h30. Reader Tadeu Freitas. Paper by Suyash Gupta, Sajjad Rahnama, Shubham Pandey, Natacha Crooks, Mohammad Sadoghi Dissecting BFT Consensus: In Trusted Components we Trust!, ACM EuroSys 2023.
• FEUP. Wed, November 19th, 2025, 15h30. Reader Abel Dantas. Paper by Martin Kelppmann Making CRDTs Byzantine Fault Tolerant, ACM EuroSys PaPoC 2022.