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Events for February 21, 2019
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Introduce a Girl to Engineering (Sponsored by Boeing and Women in Engineering)
Thu, Feb 21, 2019 @ 09:00 AM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs, Viterbi School of Engineering Student Organizations
Student Activity
With special sponsor Boeing, the Women in Engineering student board and various Viterbi student organizations bring together local middle school girls for a day of exploring STEM education and connecting with current USC students.
Location: Daniel J. Epstein Family Plaza (E-Quad)
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Monica De Los Santos
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Individual Grammar Tutorials
Thu, Feb 21, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Student Affairs
Workshops & Infosessions
Viterbi graduate and undergraduate students are invited to sign up for individual grammar assistance from professors at the Engineering Writing Program. Sign up for one-on-one individual sessions here: http://bit.ly/grammaratUSC
Questions? Email helenhch@usc.edu
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 106
Audiences: Graduate and Undergraduate Students
Contact: Helen Choi
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CS Colloquium: Marco Gaboardi (University at Buffalo, SUNY) Differential Privacy: Formal Verification and Applications
Thu, Feb 21, 2019 @ 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Marco Gaboardi, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Talk Title: Differential Privacy: Formal Verification and Applications
Series: CS Colloquium
Abstract: A vast amount of individuals' data is collected, stored and accessed every day. These data are valuable for scientific and medical research, for decision making, etc. However, use or release of these data may be restricted by concerns for the privacy of the individuals contributing them.
Differential Privacy has been conceived to offer ways to answer statistical queries about sensitive data while providing strong provable privacy guarantees ensuring that the presence or absence of a single individual in the data has a negligible statistical effect on the query's result. In this talk I will present some formal verification techniques we developed to help programmers to certify their programs differentially private and to guarantee that their programs provide accurate answers. These techniques combine approaches based on type systems and program logics with ideas for reasoning about differential privacy using composition, sensitivity and probabilistic coupling. This combination permits fine-grained formal analyses of several basic mechanisms that are fundamental for designing practical differential privacy applications. In addition, I will present some of our results showing how to answer a large number of queries on high dimensional datasets preserving privacy, and how to perform differentially private chi-squared hypothesis testing with the same asymptotic guarantees as the traditional tests.
This lecture satisfies requirements for CSCI 591: Research Colloquium
Biography: Marco Gaboardi is an assistant professor at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and a visiting scholar at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Prior to joining Buffalo, he was an assistant professor at the University of Dundee, Scotland. Marco received his PhD from the University of Torino, Italy, and the Institute National Polytechnique de Lorraine, France. He has been a visitor scholar at the University of Pennsylvania and at Harvard's CRCS center, and a recipient of a EU Marie Curie Fellowship. Marco's research is in programming languages, formal verification, and in differential privacy.
Host: Jyotirmoy Deshmukh
Location: Olin Hall of Engineering (OHE) - 132
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Assistant to CS chair
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Interviews Open Forum
Thu, Feb 21, 2019 @ 01:00 PM - 02:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Career Connections
Workshops & Infosessions
Increase your career and internship knowledge for interviews by attending this professional development Q&A moderated by Viterbi Career Connections staff or Viterbi employer partners.
For more information about Labs & Open Forums, please visit viterbicareers.usc.edu/workshops.
Location: Ronald Tutor Hall of Engineering (RTH) - 211
Audiences: All Viterbi Students
Contact: RTH 218 Viterbi Career Connections
