Fall 2019 CSE Colloquia

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September 6

Speaker: Nitin Vaidya, McDevitt Chair, Department of Computer Science at Georgetown University
Title: Distinguished Speaker Series: Security and Privacy for Distributed Optimization and Learning
Faculty Host: Gang Tan
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September 10

Speaker: Ojas Parekh, principal member of technical staff, Sandia National Labs
Title: Quantum Discrete Optimization and Approximation Algorithms
Time and Location: 10:35 a.m. in 112 Sackett Building
Faculty Host: Gang Tan

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September 19

Speaker: Jason Armstrong, National Security Agency 
Title: Evolution of Cryptograph and the WWII German Enigma
Time and Location: 2 p.m. in W375 Westgate Building
Faculty Host: Gang Tan
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September 27

Speaker: Elijah Mayfield, Carnegie Mellon University 
Title: Explainable Humans: Algorithmic Decision-Making and Education Policy
Faculty Host: Rebecca Passonneau
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October 9

Speaker: Niranjan Soundararajan, Intel Labs  
Title: Opportunities in Roadblock: Enhancing Single Thread Performance in Current 000 Cores
Time and Location: 2:00 p.m. in W375 Westgate
Faculty Host: Anand Sivasubramaniam  
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October 11

Speaker: Karthik Narasimhan, Princeton University 
Title: Addressing Long-Term Dependencies for Language Generation
Faculty Host: Rebecca Passonneau
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October 18

Speaker: Scott Rager, Raytheon BBN Technologies 
Title: Ontology-Driven Agent-Based Simulation
Time and Location: 2 p.m. in W375 Westgate Building 
Faculty Host: Thomas La Porta
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October 23

Speaker: Eytan Modiano, MIT
Title: Optimizing Information Freshness in Wireless Networks
Time and Location: 2 p.m. in W375 Westgate Building
Faculty Host: Ting He
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October 25

Speaker: Kathleen McKeown, Columbia University
Title: Where Natural Language Processing Meets Societal Needs
Faculty Host: Rebecca Passonneau
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October 31

Speaker: David Koslicki, Penn State  
Title: Multi-Resolution, MinHash-Based Database Reduction Strategies Applied to Metagenomics
Time and Location: 2 p.m. in W375 Westgate Building
Faculty Host: Gang Tan
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November 15

Speaker: Antonio Blanca, Penn State  
Title: Sampling, Learning, and Testing Markov Random Fields
Time and Location: 2 p.m. in W201 Westgate Building (The Cybertorium)
Faculty Host: Gang Tan
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