Events During the Week of September 10th through September 17th, 2017
Monday, September 11th, 2017
- Plasma Physics (Physics/ECE/NE 922) Seminar
- Nonthermal particle acceleration in magnetic reconnection and turbulence in collisionless relativistic plasmas
- Time: 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: Chamberlin 2241
- Speaker: Prof. Dmitri Uzdensky, Center for Integrated Plasma Studies, University of Colorado, Boulder
- Host: Stanislav Boldyrev
Tuesday, September 12th, 2017
- Chaos & Complex Systems Seminar
- The Fairsquare project: Countering programs that discriminate
- Time: 12:05 pm - 1:00 pm
- Place: 4274 Chamberlin (refreshments will be served)
- Speaker: Aws Albarghouthi, UW Department of Computer Science
- Abstract: Software has become a powerful arbitrator of a range of significant decisions with far-reaching societal impact---hiring, welfare allocation, prison sentencing, policing and, among many others. With the range and sensitivity of algorithmic decisions expanding by the day, the problem of understanding the nature of program discrimination and fairness is a pressing one. In this talk, I will describe our work on the FairSquare project, in which we are developing program verification and synthesis tools aimed at rigorously characterizing and reasoning about fairness of decision-making programs.
- Host: Clint Sprott
Wednesday, September 13th, 2017
- No events scheduled
Thursday, September 14th, 2017
- No events scheduled
Friday, September 15th, 2017
- Physics Department Colloquium
- Fall Welcome Reception
- Time: 3:30 pm
- Place: 2241 Chamberlin Hall
- Speaker: Sridhara Dasu