Speaker: Justin Hsu Affiliation: University of Pennsylvania Title: Approximate Probabilistic Coupling and Differential Privacy Abstract: Approximate lifting is a formal verification concept for proving differential privacy. Recently, we have explored an interesting connection: approximate liftings[...]

Speaker: David Harris Affiliation: University of Maryland College Park Title: Improved parallel algorithms for hypergraph maximal independent set Abstract: Finding a maximal independent set in hypergraphs has been a long-standing algorithmic challenge. The best parallel algorithm[...]

Speaker: Adam Smith Affiliation: Penn State University. Title: Privacy, Information and Generalization Abstract: Consider an agency holding a large database of sensitive personal information — medical records, census survey answers, web search records, or genetic data, for[...]