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=== Privacy Day 2024 ===

Charles River Privacy Day — November 22, 2024

Please join us for a day of talks on the theory and practice of statistical data privacy!

Confirmed Speakers

Registration: Attendance is free, but please register via this Registration Form if you plan to come.

Location:
43 Hawes Street
Brookline, MA 02446
(map)

Organizer:
Charles River Privacy Day is organized by the Boston-Area Data Privacy Group, which spans BU, Northeastern and Harvard.

Tentative Schedule:

9:00am - 9:30am Welcome, coffee
9:30am - 10:30am Gautam Kamath, University of Waterloo
The Broader Landscape of Robustness in Mean Estimation
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm Priyanka Nanayakkara, Harvard
Differential Privacy Interfaces for Data Users
12:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch (provided)
2:00pm - 3:00pm Jalaj Upadhyay, Rutgers University
A brief history of differentially private continual counting and its applications
3:00pm - 3:30pm Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm Virginia Smith, CMU
Getting Lost in ML Safety Vibes

Talk Information:


=== Privacy Day 2023 ===

Charles River Privacy Day — May 11th, 2023

Please join us for a day of talks on the theory and practice of statistical data privacy! Inspired by the success of the Charles River Crypto Days, the Charles River Privacy Days will resume—after a decade-long hiatus—on Thursday, May 11, 2023. The event will be followed on Friday, May 12 by a Crypto Day workshop.

Confirmed Speakers

Organizer:
Charles River Privacy Day is organized by the Boston-Area Data Privacy Group, which spans BU, Northeastern and Harvard.

Registration: Attendance is free, but please register via this Registration Form if you plan to come.

Location:
Center for Computational and Data Sciences Boston Univeristy, 17th floor
665 Commonwealth Ave, Boston, MA 02215
(map)

Schedule:

9:00am - 9:30am Welcome, coffee
9:30am - 10:30am Sewoong Oh (UW)
Rethinking Auditing Privacy from First Principles
10:30am - 11:00am Break
11:00am - 12:00pm Jessica Sorrell (Penn)
Connections Between Replicability, Privacy, and Perfect Generalization
12:00pm - 2:00pm Lunch (provided)
2:00pm - 3:00pm Jelani Nelson (Berkeley)
New Local Differentially Private Protocols for Frequency and Mean Estimation
3:00pm - 3:30pm Break
3:30pm - 4:30pm Jayshree Sarathy (Harvard)
Data Perceptions and Practices: Exploring Social Factors around the Uptake of Differential Privacy

Talk Information: