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Oct29
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lessMeet our students! Join members of our Computer Science PhD Advisory Council for a one-hour information session via Zoom.
CS PhD Admissions Info Session
Tuesday, October 29
7 - 8:00 p.m. CDT
Registration required via Zoom at the following link: https://northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqduCorDosHNOkplgLPwoLv-cg1O3y6ilGTIME Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
CONTACT PhD Admissions phd-admissions@cs.northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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Oct30
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lessWednesday / CS Seminar
October 30th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514Speaker
Lars Bergstrom, GoogleTalk Title
Co-design and evolution of mobile hardware and operating systemsAbstract
Every year, owners of mobile devices want them to cost less, last longer, be upgraded for longer, increase security, and to run more demanding applications and services. In this talk, focusing on the Android ecosystem I'll cover some examples of how we work all the way from instruction set and hardware architecture up to operating system and application features in order to deliver on these demands. I will also discuss some of the critical gaps where today there are opportunities to greatly improve the way we measure, model and improve the products and software we design and build.Biography
Lars Bergstrom is a Director of Engineering at Google on the Android team, working on their platform tools and libraries. He manages the tools that update the Android operating system as well as the Java, C/C++, and Rust toolchains and the supporting libraries. He also serves as Google’s Corporate Director to RISC-V International and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Rust Foundation. Before Google, he was at Mozilla Research, initially contributing to the Servo browser project and directing the integration of Rust into Firefox and the partner ecosystem. Later, he led Mozilla’s AR and VR work, shipping software and building OEM relationships on many different devices. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Chicago in 2013.Research/Interest Areas:TBA
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DEI Minute: TBATIME Wednesday, October 30, 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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Oct31
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lessEnjoy a spooky treat with the Computer Science Department at this month's Bagel Thursday.
TIME Thursday, October 31, 2024 at 8:30 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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Nov4
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lessMonday / CS Seminar
November 4th / 12:00 PM
Hybrid / Mudd 3514Speaker
Dr. Kristin Lauter, FAIR Labs North AmericaTalk Title
Cryptography in the "Post-AI" Era: Machine Learning attacks on Post-Quantum CryptographyAbstract
AI is taking off and we could say we are living in “the AI Era”. Progress in AI today is based on mathematics and statistics under the covers of machine learning models. This talk will explain at a high level how these techniques work, and some important applications. In particular, I will explain recent work on AI4Crypto, where we train AI models to attack Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) schemes based on lattices. Understanding the concrete security of these standardized PQC schemes is important for the future of e-commerce and internet security. So in addition to living in a Post-Quantum era, we can say we are living in a “Post-AI” era.Biography
"Dr. Kristin Lauter is Senior Director of FAIR Labs North America (2022—present), based in Seattle. Her current research areas are AI4Crypto and Private AI. She joined FAIR (Facebook AI Research) in 2021, after 22 years at Microsoft Research (MSR). At MSR she was Partner Research Manager on the senior leadership team of MSR Redmond. Before joining Microsoft in 1999, she was Hildebrandt Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University of Michigan (1996-1999). She is an Affiliate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Washington (2008—present). She received all her advanced degrees from the University of Chicago, BA (1990), MS (1991), PhD (1996) in Mathematics. She is best known for her work on Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Supersingular Isogeny Graphs in Cryptography, Homomorphic Encryption (SEALcrypto.org), Private AI, and AI4Crypto. She served as President of the Association for Women in Mathematics from 2015-2017 and on the Council of the American Mathematical Society from 2014-2017.
Lauter has been recognized for her mathematical research and leadership with numerous awards: the Selfridge Prize in Computational Number Theory (2008), as an elected Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2015), Fellow of the Association for Women in Mathematics (2017), Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) in 2020, and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020). In 2021, Lauter was elected as an honorary member of the Royal Spanish Mathematical Society (RSME). She was awarded the Pólya Lectureship for the Mathematical Association of America (2018–2020) and the SIAM Block Community Prize Lecturer in 2022. She gave a TED talk on Private AI at Congreso Futuro in 2020 and on AI4Crypto in 2023."
Research/Interest Areas:
AI Privacy and Security, AI for Math, Cryptography, Number Theory---
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DEI Minute: TBATIME Monday, November 4, 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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Nov6
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lessTBA
TIME Wednesday, November 6, 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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Nov7
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lessLearn how traditional 3D graphics engineering has converged with Generative AI and Robotics using OpenUSD and NVIDIA Omniverse.
I’ll discuss my career path from NU, to grad school, to Oscar nominated and Emmy winning Visual Effects, to my current role at NVIDIA.
This speaker will present via Zoom, but an in-person session will be held for the presentation.
TIME Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
LOCATION 3501, Mudd Hall ( formerly Seeley G. Mudd Library) map it
CONTACT Bella Barrios marbella.barrios@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Computer Science (CS)
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Nov11
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lessTBA
TIME Monday, November 11, 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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Nov18
EVENT DETAILSmore info
lessEnCORE and IDEAL TRIPODS Institutes Collaboration website here
Monday, November 18 and Tuesday, November 19, 2024
The NSF TRIPODS Institutes—The Institute for Emerging CORE Methods for Data Science (EnCORE) at UCSD and The Institute for Data, Econometrics, Algorithms, and Learning (IDEAL) at Northwestern University—are co-hosting a workshop titled "Foundations of Fairness and Accountability." The event will take place from November 18-19, 2024 in a hybrid format at the Department of Computer Science at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. We plan to follow up with a second workshop at early Spring at the EnCORE institute at the University of California San Diego.
The workshop will feature a blend of talks and interactive discussions, focusing on key topics related to fairness and accountability. The main areas of exploration include:
1. Fairness in Resource Allocation
2. Fairness in Clustering & Ranking
3. Fairness in Prediction
4. Socio-Technical Aspects of Fairness & Accountability
5. Accountability in Experiment Design, with an emphasis on Replicability
6. Applications of these concepts across fields like Law, AI, and Biology.TIME Monday, November 18, 2024 at 9:00 AM - 4:30 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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Nov18
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lessTBA
TIME Monday, November 18, 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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Nov20
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TIME Wednesday, November 20, 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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Nov21
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lessTBA
TIME Thursday, November 21, 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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Nov25
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lessTBA
TIME Monday, November 25, 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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Nov27
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lessTBA
TIME Wednesday, November 27, 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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Dec4
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lessTBA
TIME Wednesday, December 4, 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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Dec7
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lessFall classes end
TIME Saturday, December 7, 2024
CONTACT Office of the Registrar nu-registrar@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR University Academic Calendar
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Dec14
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lessThe ceremony will take place on Saturday, December 14 in Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, 50 Arts Circle Drive.
*No tickets required
TIME Saturday, December 14, 2024 at 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
LOCATION Pick-Staiger Concert Hall map it
CONTACT Andi Joppie andi.joppie@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science