Fall 2019 Computer Science and Engineering Colloquia
Colloquia will be at 2:00 p.m. in The Cybertorium (W201 Westgate) unless otherwise indicated.
Please contact Gan (Gary) Tan at gxt29@psu.edu with any questions.
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
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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