Events - June 2020

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 — 3:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Systems and Networking — Road Condition Sensing Using Wireless Signals

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Soroush Ameli, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Tuesday, June 30, 2020 — 1:00 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Formal Methods — A Comprehensive Study of Declarative Modelling Languages

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Amin Bandali, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Declarative behavioural modelling is a powerful modelling paradigm that enables users to model system functionality abstractly and formally. An abstract model is a concise and compact representation of key characteristics of a system, and enables the stakeholders to reason about the correctness of the system in the early stages of development.

Monday, June 29, 2020 — 10:00 AM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Quantum Computing — A Study of One-turn Quantum Refereed Games

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Soumik Ghosh, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Friday, June 26, 2020 — 2:30 PM EDT

Master’s Thesis Presentation • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP) — Robot Social Engineering

Please note: This master’s thesis presentation will be given online.

Brittany Postnikoff, Master’s candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

This thesis establishes the new field of Robot Social Engineering. We define Robot Social Engineering as the use of social abilities and techniques by robots to manipulate others in order to achieve a goal. We build the field of Robot Social Engineering on the foundations of Human-Robot Interaction research on social robots as well as information security research on social engineering.

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 — 2:15 PM EDT

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity — Testing Noisy Linear Equations for Sparsity

Please note: This seminar will be given online.

Anindya De, Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania

Wednesday, June 24, 2020 — 12:00 PM EDT

PhD Seminar • Data Systems — sGrapp: Efficient Butterfly Approximation in Bipartite Streaming Graphs

Please note: This PhD seminar will be given online.

Aida Sheshbolouki, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science

Tuesday, June 23, 2020 — 2:30 PM to 4:00 PM EDT

Unconscious Bias: How to Recognize and Interrupt It

image by Nathan Dumlao on Unsplash depicting diversity

Please join Women in Computer Science for this free, virtual event with Kathleen Nalty, an expert in strategies to create cultures of inclusion to retain and advance diverse talent.

Monday, June 22, 2020 — 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM EDT

Propelled by the Pandemic — Explosive Digital Growth, 5G Adoption and the Future

Digital adoption and dependence have been dramatically propelled by the COVID-19 pandemic. This sudden growth spotlights critical issues such as cybersecurity, privacy, resilience, the highly consequential shift to 5G, and what innovative technologies may follow. Leadership in 5G adoption will be a vital determinant of future national competitiveness, as 5G will further enable dramatic technological advances in logistics, manufacturing, autonomous vehicles, mining, construction and smart grids.

Monday, June 22, 2020 — 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM EDT