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May20
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Join leaders from the Northwestern Personal Development StudioLab for a presentation about the new Curious Life Certificate (CLC), a series of courses designed to give you a holistic approach to your performance both academically and in your personal life.
TIME Monday, May 20, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
LOCATION Design Studio 3 (Room 3-210), Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Bruce Ankenman ankenman@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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May29
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Wednesday / CS Distinguished Lecture
May 29th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514Speaker
Ken ReganTalk Title
Cheating Detection and Cognitive Modeling At ChessAbstract
The "Fidelity" model of human move-choice at chess resembles utility-based predictive models that gauge risk and forecast consumer behavior. The events are possible moves in a series of chess positions; the utilities are the values of those moves given by strong chess-playing programs; the parameters are player skill indicators; and the outputs give projections and confidence intervals for various aggregate statistics. The outputs are employed by the International Chess Federation (FIDE) and various national federations to help arbitrate allegations of players cheating with strong computer programs in human-only matches. The model also promotes general research on human decision making, in real competitive settings where evaluation metrics such as the Elo rating system are robust and long established.
The talk will present some applications, including how results give positive feedback on the security of competitions. Then it will address matters of the "replication crisis" and general conduct of science as employed in forecasting. How can we tell the line between results indicating human psychological phenomena and artifacts of the model's construction and graininess? What cross-validations and simple sanity checks are there for its conclusions on cheating and other matters of human development? This will open to general Q&A.
*Some of this work is joint with the late Guy Haworth of the University of Reading (UK) and with my PhD graduate Tamal Biswas (RKMVERI in Kolkata, India) and reflects discussions with other students in graduate seminars. Computational resources are provided by the Department of CSE and the UB Center for Computational Research (CCR).
Biography
Kenneth W. Regan is a full professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo. He has worked in Computational Complexity Theory since obtaining his B.A. in 1981 from Princeton University and his doctorate in 1986 from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He co-writes Richard Lipton's popular weblog "Gödel’s Lost Letter and P=NP" and has written with Lipton a textbook on quantum computing for MIT Press. He is an International Master at chess and conducts a second major research program on human decision-making (at chess). Regan has been consulted in major international chess-cheating cases since 2011 and was a charter member in 2013 of the precursor to the International Chess Federation's Fair Play Commission, for which he now consults. He is married with two children.Research Area/Interests
TBAZoom: TBA
TIME Wednesday, May 29, 2024 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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May30
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TIME Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
LOCATION 3514, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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May30
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You are invited to our annual CS End of the Year Awards & Ice Cream Social! Held on Thursday, May 30th on the 1st floor lobby of Mudd and awards will begin at 3pm. If you are interested in attending, please be sure to RSVP by following this link https://shorturl.at/elpRW.
TIME Thursday, May 30, 2024 at 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
LOCATION 1st Floor Lobby, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Wynante R Charles wynante.charles@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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Jun10
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McCormick School of Engineering PhD Hooding and Master’s Degree Recognition Ceremony
TIME Monday, June 10, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
LOCATION Welsh-Ryan Arena
CONTACT Amy Pokrass amy.pokrass@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Jun10
TIME Monday, June 10, 2024 at 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM
LOCATION Welsh-Ryan Arena
CONTACT Amy Pokrass amy.pokrass@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Aug14
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Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application, and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC), funded by the Department of Defense — National Defense Education Program, is extending an invitation to underrepresented students nationwide (including military-connected students) to participate in a summer school focused on quantum technologies, to be held at Northwestern University. Join us for presentations by faculty and industry partners introducing quantum technologies, cutting-edge research areas, and related job opportunities particularly in the areas of national security.
This effort aims to foster an inclusive environment that encourages participation from all corners of the academic community. Successful applicants will receive up to $1,000 USD to cover travel and lodging expenses in Evanston, IL.
Priority application deadline: May 15, 2024.
Decisions will be sent by June 15, 2024.
TIME Wednesday, August 14, 2024
LOCATION Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Dongyang Li lidongyang@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science
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Aug15
EVENT DETAILSmore info
Innovation in Quantum Pedagogy, Application, and its Relation to Culture (IQ-PARC), funded by the Department of Defense — National Defense Education Program, is extending an invitation to underrepresented students nationwide (including military-connected students) to participate in a summer school focused on quantum technologies, to be held at Northwestern University. Join us for presentations by faculty and industry partners introducing quantum technologies, cutting-edge research areas, and related job opportunities particularly in the areas of national security.
This effort aims to foster an inclusive environment that encourages participation from all corners of the academic community. Successful applicants will receive up to $1,000 USD to cover travel and lodging expenses in Evanston, IL.
Priority application deadline: May 15, 2024.
Decisions will be sent by June 15, 2024.
TIME Thursday, August 15, 2024
LOCATION Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center map it
CONTACT Dongyang Li lidongyang@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science