Weekly Announcements

Presentations and events this week

Monday, February 17, 2020

Family Day
A provincial holiday observed on the third Monday in February in most provinces, including Ontario
All day • wherever you are

Wednesday, February 19, 2020

Seminar • Computational Health Informatics
For the Love of Robots
Janneke Ritchie, Founder and CEO
Orange Gate
10:00 a.m. • DC 2584

PhD Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Network Design for s-t Effective Resistance
Hong Zhou, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:30 p.m. • DC 1304

Thursday, February 20, 2020

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
The Relationship Between Unconditionally Secure All-or-nothing Transforms and Similar Structures
Navid Nasr Esfahani, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 2314

Friday, February 21, 2020

PhD Seminar • Human-Computer Interaction
TabletInVR: Exploring the Design Space for Using a Multi-Touch Tablet in Virtual Reality
Hemant Surale, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
1:00 p.m. • DC 1304

NEW • Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Motion Planning with Local Interaction: A Framework for Proving Hardness
Jayson Lynch, PhD candidate
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:00 p.m. • DC 1304

Upcoming presentations and events

Tuesday, February 25 and Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Dash by Plotly Workshop: Data Visualization & Interactive Analytics Toolkit
The Ubiquitous Health Technology Lab at Waterloo is hosting the first information visualization workshop in partnership with Plotly, the scientific computing company that maintains the world’s fastest growing, open-source data visualization libraries for R, Python, and JavaScript.
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. both days • AHS 1686
Free workshop, but registration required

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

PhD Seminar • Data Systems
Dynamic Early Exiting for Accelerating BERT Inference
Ji Xin, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
12:15 p.m. • DC 1304

Seminar • Computer Algebra
An Efficient Sum of Squares Certificate for 4-ary 4-ic
Dmitrii Pasechnik, Department of Computer Science
University of Oxford
1:30 p.m. • MC 5501

Seminar • Waterloo AI Institute
Noise Flow: Noise with Conditional Normalizing Flows
Marcus Brubaker, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
York University
Research Director, Borealis AI
1:30 p.m. • DC 1302

Thursday, February 27, 2020

Seminar • Algorithms and Complexity
Graph Algorithms and Batch Processing
Richard Peng, School of Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304

Friday, February 28, 2020

Cybersecurity and Privacy Institute
Privacy, Infrastructures, Policy
Media, government and industry commonly frame security and privacy as diametrically opposed: protecting one requires sacrificing the other. Hosted by CPI, this one-day event brings together researchers with international speakers from journalism, national security, academia and the corporate world to challenge these misconceptions.
8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. • Federation Hall
A free, catered event, but registration is required

William Tutte Colloquium
Parallel Strategies for SIDH: Towards Computing SIDH twice as Fast
Francisco Rodríguez-Henríquez, Computer Science Department
Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico
3:30 p.m. • MC 5501

Monday, March 2, 2020

Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Securing Modern Systems
Aravind Machiry, Department of Computer Science
University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304

Thursday, March 5, 2020

Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
Policy Compliance in Online Services
Aastha Mehta, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Saarbrücken, Germany
10:30 a.m. • DC 1304

PhD Seminar • Computer Graphics | Scientific Computing
Constraint Bubbles and Affine Regions: Reduced Fluid Models for Efficient Immersed Bubbles and Flexible Spatial Coarsening
Ryan Goldade, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
2:30 p.m. • DC 2314

Friday, March 13, 2020

PhD Seminar • Cryptography, Security, and Privacy (CrySP)
A Scalable Post-quantum Hash-based Group Signature
Masoumeh Shafieinejad, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
11:00 a.m. • DC 1304

Tuesday, March 17, 2020

Distinguished Lecture Series
An Ethical Crisis in Computing?
Moshe Y. Vardi, University Professor
Karen Ostrum George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering
Rice University
3:30 p.m. • DC 1302

Wednesday, April 1, 2020

PhD Seminar • Data Systems | Information Extraction
Extracted View Maintenance
Besat Kassaie, PhD candidate
David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science
10:30 a.m. • DC 2310

Thursday, May 14, 2020

Distinguished Lecture Series
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity
Oren Etzioni, Chief Executive Officer
Allen Institute for AI
Professor of Computer Science
University of Washington
3:30 p.m. • DC 1302