Statistical and Learning-Theoretic Challenges in Data Privacy - IPAM

Statistical and Learning-Theoretic Challenges in Data Privacy

February 22 - 26, 2010

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, February 22, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-08:45
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:45-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-9:40
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University)
Title not available
09:40-10:15
Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University)
Title not available
10:15-10:45
Break
10:45-12:00
Larry Wasserman (Carnegie Mellon University)
Tutorial on Theoretical Statistics

Afternoon Session

12:00-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Kunal Talwar (Microsoft Research)
On the Geometry of Differential Privacy
14:55-15:10
Break
15:10-15:55
Frank McSherry (Microsoft Research)
Differential Privacy and Probabilistic Inference
16:00
Refreshments at CNSI Auditorium
16:30-17:30
Public Lecture by David Gross at CNSI Auditorium
17:30-19:00
Reception in the IPAM building immediately following the lecture

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:15
Tutorial - Martin Wainwright
10:15-10:40
Break
10:40-11:25
Vitaly Shmatikov (University of Texas at Austin)
Airavat: Security and Privacy for MapReduce
11:35-12:20
Kamalika Chaudhuri (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Privacy-preserving Classification

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:55-15:10
Break
16:10-16:25
Break

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:45
Xiaofeng Wang (Indiana University)
Title not available
09:55-10:10
Break
10:10-10:55
Sofya Raskhodnikova (Pennsylvania State University)
What Can We Learn Privately?
11:05-11:20
Break
11:20-12:05
Kobbi Nissim (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:15-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Ravi Kumar (Yahoo! Research)
Query Logs and User Privacy
14:55-15:10
Break
15:10-15:55
Jiashun Jin (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Title not available
16:10-16:25
Break
16:25-17:10
Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University)
Rump Session: Short Presentations of Posters
17:20-19:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:45
Daniel Kifer (Pennsylvania State University)
Towards an Axiomatization of Privacy and Utility
09:55-10:10
Break
10:10-10:55
Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University)
Title not available
11:05-11:20
Break
11:20-12:05
Stephen Fienberg (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:15-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Natalie Shlomo (University of Southampton)
Privacy Protection from Sampling and Perturbation in Surveys
14:55-15:10
Break
15:10-15:55
Moni Naor (Weizmann Institute of Science)
Title not available
16:10-16:25
Break
16:25-17:10
Aleksandra Slavkovic (Pennsylvania State University)
Differential privacy and statistical hypothesis testing

Friday, February 26, 2010

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:45
09:55-10:10
Break
10:10-10:55
Yuval Nardi (Technion - Israel Institute of Technology)
Secure Logistic Regression with Distributed Databases
11:05-11:20
Break
11:20-12:05
Cynthia Dwork (Harvard University)
Title not available

Afternoon Session

12:15-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-16:00
Adam Smith (Pennsylvania State University)
Impromptu Session and Wrap-up Discussion