Hi all, Next Friday, Lorenzo Biagi will talk about "A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Byzantine Generals Problem”. See below for the abstract. The talk will take place at 15:00 in HIT E41.1. Best, Ladina %%%%%%%%%%% Title: A Game-Theoretic Approach to the Byzantine Generals Problem Abstract: Can agreement be reached in a decentralized system corrupted by malicious agents? Modern distributed architectures rely on multi-party protocols that turn local, potentially inconsistent information into global reliable outcomes, even under failures or adversarial behaviour. Quantizing such protocols offers a direct way to probe quantum advantage by asking whether quantum resources can improve fault-tolerance thresholds. In this work, we pursue a game-theoretic route to quantizing Byzantine Agreement. We first introduce a formalism that recasts the Byzantine Generals Problem (BGP) as a finite-horizon dynamic Bayesian game. This lets us study decentralized agreement through game-theoretic solution concepts by encoding consensus in equilibrium strategies. Concretely, we establish an equivalence between Nash-Pareto equilibria and agreement-achieving protocols, which points to possible extensions of the classical solution space. This game-theoretic formulation opens a natural path to quantization. To this end, we propose an Eisert-type framework in which the BGP protocol itself generates the shared quantum resource, removing the reliance on a trusted arbiter and possibly improving traitor tolerance.