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Apr7
TIME Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION Suite 1400, Krebs Classroom, North Campus Parking Garage map it
CONTACT Kendall Minta kendall.minta@gmail.com EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS)
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Apr7
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lessThis lecture introduces Differential Privacy (DP) as a mathematically rigorous framework for privacy-preserving data analysis, motivated by the well-documented failures of traditional anonymization approaches such as linkage attacks and the mosaic effect. The lecture covers the formal definition of DP, key properties including the privacy budget (ε), and the mechanisms used to achieve it — Laplace, Exponential, and Gaussian — alongside practical considerations around the privacy-utility tradeoff. Real-world deployments at organizations are examined, with a forward-looking discussion of the emerging challenges of applying DP to large language model training.
TIME Tuesday, April 7, 2026 at 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
LOCATION M152, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science Program mlds@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science (MLDS)
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Apr8
EVENT DETAILS
lessThis lecture introduces data anonymization as a formal approach to protecting individual privacy when releasing datasets, motivating the need for rigorous guarantees through the well-known failures of naive de-identification such as linkage attacks and quasi-identifier re-identification. The lecture covers core Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) concepts and a range of anonymization techniques including generalization, suppression, pseudonymization, and data perturbation. Practical methodology for applying anonymization in context-specific settings is presented with attention to the inherent privacy-utility tradeoff that practitioners must navigate.
TIME Wednesday, April 8, 2026 at 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
LOCATION McCormick Education Center, Room 1400 (Krebs), North Campus Parking Garage map it
CONTACT Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science Program mlds@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science (MLDS)
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Apr9
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lessThis lecture introduces Homomorphic Encryption (HE), a powerful cryptographic technique that enables computations to be performed directly on encrypted data without requiring access to a secret key, such that the decrypted result is identical to what would be obtained from computing on the original plaintext. The session covers the core concepts and mathematical foundations of HE, including additive and multiplicative homomorphism, the role of noise in fully homomorphic schemes, and practical tools such as Microsoft SEAL and HELib. Applications spanning healthcare, finance, machine learning, and cloud computing are examined alongside the key deployment challenge of computational overhead.
TIME Thursday, April 9, 2026 at 5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
LOCATION M152, Technological Institute map it
CONTACT Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science Program mlds@northwestern.edu EMAIL
CALENDAR Master of Science in Machine Learning and Data Science (MLDS)
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Apr21
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lessIEMS Weekly Seminar Series
TIME Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
CONTACT Kendall Minta kendall.minta@gmail.com EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS)
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Apr28
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lessIEMS Undergrad Seminar - April 28
TIME Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
LOCATION Suite 1400, Krebs Classroom, North Campus Parking Garage map it
CONTACT Kendall Minta kendall.minta@gmail.com EMAIL
CALENDAR Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences (IEMS)
