<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default"><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">  Monday, December 6th, 2021 at <b>11:00 am CT</b></font></font><br></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b>     TTIC; 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 530</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><u><br></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">                  <u>Virtually:</u></font><font color="#000000"> (</font><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RXGf1cjWTZiAk-j99Wa-wA" target="_blank">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000">)</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>       </font></font>Jonathan Ullman, Northeastern University</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> <span class="gmail_default">       </span><font color="#000000">Firm Foundations for Private Machine Learning and Statistics</font></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><b>Abstract: </b><font color="#000000">How can researchers use sensitive datasets for machine learning and statistics without compromising the privacy of the individuals who contribute their data?  In this talk I will describe my work on the foundations of differential privacy---a rigorous framework for answering this question.  In the past decade, differential privacy has gone from largely theoretical to widely deployed, and a theme of the talk will be how new deployments are forcing us to revisit foundational questions about differential privacy.  This talk will cover a range of issues from fundamental---like the minimax error rate and necessary assumptions for private statistical inference---to applied---like auditing the privacy properties of algorithms for training neural networks.</font></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio: </b> <font color="#000000">Jonathan Ullman is an Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.  Before joining Northeastern, he received his PhD from Harvard in 2013, and in 2014 was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows.   His research centers on privacy for machine learning and statistics, and its surprising connections to topics like statistical validity, robustness, cryptography, and fairness.  He has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award and the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award.</font></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Hos</b></span><span class="gmail_default"><b>ts:</b> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>Avrim Blum</b></a></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a> </font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Dec 5, 2021 at 4:57 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:small"><div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">  Monday, December 6th, 2021 at <b>11:00 am CT</b></font></font><br></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b>     TTIC; 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 530</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><u><br></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">                  <u>Virtually:</u></font><font color="#000000"> (</font><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RXGf1cjWTZiAk-j99Wa-wA" target="_blank">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000">)</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>       </font></font>Jonathan Ullman, Northeastern University</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> <span class="gmail_default">       </span><font color="#000000">Firm Foundations for Private Machine Learning and Statistics</font></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><b>Abstract: </b><font color="#000000">How can researchers use sensitive datasets for machine learning and statistics without compromising the privacy of the individuals who contribute their data?  In this talk I will describe my work on the foundations of differential privacy---a rigorous framework for answering this question.  In the past decade, differential privacy has gone from largely theoretical to widely deployed, and a theme of the talk will be how new deployments are forcing us to revisit foundational questions about differential privacy.  This talk will cover a range of issues from fundamental---like the minimax error rate and necessary assumptions for private statistical inference---to applied---like auditing the privacy properties of algorithms for training neural networks.</font></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio: </b> <font color="#000000">Jonathan Ullman is an Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.  Before joining Northeastern, he received his PhD from Harvard in 2013, and in 2014 was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows.   His research centers on privacy for machine learning and statistics, and its surprising connections to topics like statistical validity, robustness, cryptography, and fairness.  He has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award and the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award.</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Hos</b></span><span class="gmail_default"><b>ts:</b> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>Avrim Blum</b></a></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a> </font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 7:06 PM Mary Marre <<a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank">mmarre@ttic.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit">  Monday, December 6th, 2021 at <b style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">11:00 am CT</b></font></font><br></font></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Where:</b>     TTIC; 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue, 5th Floor, Room 530</font></font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><u><br></u></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font color="#000000">                  <u>Virtually:</u></font><font color="#000000"> (</font><b><font color="#0000ff"><a href="https://uchicagogroup.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RXGf1cjWTZiAk-j99Wa-wA" target="_blank">register in advance here</a></font></b><font color="#000000">)</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>Who: </b>       </font></font>Jonathan Ullman, Northeastern University</font></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><b><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></b></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Title:</b> <span class="gmail_default">       </span><font color="#000000">Firm Foundations for Private Machine Learning and Statistics</font></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><b>Abstract: </b><font color="#000000">How can researchers use sensitive datasets for machine learning and statistics without compromising the privacy of the individuals who contribute their data?  In this talk I will describe my work on the foundations of differential privacy---a rigorous framework for answering this question.  In the past decade, differential privacy has gone from largely theoretical to widely deployed, and a theme of the talk will be how new deployments are forcing us to revisit foundational questions about differential privacy.  This talk will cover a range of issues from fundamental---like the minimax error rate and necessary assumptions for private statistical inference---to applied---like auditing the privacy properties of algorithms for training neural networks.</font></font></div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><b>Bio: </b>

<font color="#000000">Jonathan <span>Ullman</span> is an Associate Professor in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.  Before joining Northeastern, he received his PhD from Harvard in 2013, and in 2014 was a Junior Fellow in the Simons Society of Fellows.   His research centers on privacy for machine learning and statistics, and its surprising connections to topics like statistical validity, robustness, cryptography, and fairness.  He has been recognized with an NSF CAREER award and the Ruth and Joel Spira Outstanding Teacher Award.</font></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span class="gmail_default"><b>Hos</b></span><span class="gmail_default"><b>ts:</b> <a href="mailto:avrim@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><b>Avrim Blum</b></a></span></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">For more information on the colloquium series or to subscribe to the mailing list, please see <a href="http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/colloquium.php</a> </font></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div><div style="font-size:small"><br></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small">Mary C. Marre</span><br></div><div><div><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">Faculty Administrative Support</font></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1"><b>Toyota Technological Institute</b></font></i></div><div><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6" size="1">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></i></div><div><font size="1"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#3d85c6">Chicago, IL  60637</font></i><br></font></div><div><b><i><a href="mailto:mmarre@ttic.edu" target="_blank"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">mmarre@ttic.edu</font></a></i></b></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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