Speaker: Kuldeep S. Meel (Georgia Institute of Technology)   Abstract:  The dominant guiding philosophy in the first sixty years of Computer Science was for designers to design systems that were always correct, and to accept nothing less as users. But times have changed: Users and designers are accustomed to systems with statistical components and behaviors. What… Read More »Distribution Testing: The New Frontier for Formal Methods

Prof. Venkata Koppula will be giving a talk on Wednesday, March 19th, in Bharti 501. Please note that this is not our usual Monday slot. The talk will begin at 12:00 PM, with refreshments served at 11:50 AM, prior to the talk. Below are the details: Abstract: Consider a resource-bounded client that wants to outsource some… Read More »Delegation and Verification of Quantum Computation

Abstract: Modern data centres serve as a backbone for executing diverse workloads. The growing demand for resources has led to high traffic volumes, requiring clusters to operate at high utilisation. In this talk, I will examine how current data centre schedulers, responsible for mapping workload tasks to resources, perform under such challenging conditions. I will… Read More »The Case for Decentralised Scheduling in Modern Data Centres

Abstract: From social media all the way to satellite images, we are capturing visual data at an unprecedented scale. These images tell a story about our planet. With advances in automatic recognition, we can build a collective understanding of world-scale events as recorded through visual media. In this talk, we will first explore the idea… Read More »Visual Discovery for Science

Speaker: Surender Baswana, IIT Kanpur   Abstract: Mincuts are one of the most well-researched topics in algorithms. In recent years, there has been phenomenal research on algorithms for computing (s, t)-mincuts and global mincuts. On the other hand, the data structural and graph theoretical aspects of mincuts have also been well-researched in the last 50… Read More »An amazing structure for representing all Steiner mincuts of a graph

Abstract: With the recent rise of AI businesses in all industries around the world, AI can also be used to make important decisions for society. However, it is also true that using AI incorrectly or without understanding the characteristics of AI can have a negative impact on society due to concerns about its impact on… Read More »Regulations, International Standardizations and Technologies to Realize “Trusted AI”

Speaker: Vijay Keswani (Duke University) https://vijaykeswani.github.io/ Details: Apr 8th (Tue) | 4 PM | Online Abstract: As the capabilities of AI have expanded, reports of societal and personal harms related to its use have surged. Examples range from systemic biases in AI tools used in healthcare and social media to stereotype propagation in AI-based search and… Read More »How Do We Build Responsible AI? Towards Fair and Participatory AI Designs

Speaker: Ramneek Kaur, post-doctoral fellow, CSE, IIT Delhi Abstract: With over 70% of India's rural population dependent on agriculture, and 82% of farmers being small and marginal, the availability of water for irrigation is critical to ensuring sustainable rural livelihoods. Government welfare schemes such as the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) play… Read More »Impact Assessment of Natural Resource Management (NRM) Interventions in India

Speaker: Dr. Pritam Choudhury Abstract: In his article „Constructive Mathematics and Computer Programming‟, the renowned logician and type-theorist, Per Martin-Löf notes, "If programming is understood not as the writing of instructions for this or that computing machine but as the design of methods of computation that it is the computer‟s duty to execute (a difference… Read More »Mathematics and Programming: The Past, Present and Future A Personal Perspective

Speaker: Dominik Peters  Abstract: Lindahl equilibrium is a solution concept for allocating a fixed budget across several divisible public goods. It always lies in the core, meaning that the equilibrium allocation satisfies desirable stability and proportional fairness properties. We consider a model where agents have separable linear utility functions over the public goods, and the output… Read More »Computing Lindahl Equilibrium for Public Goods with and without Funding Caps