| Math isn't Relevant, Wei Sun |
| 05/20/23: A Data-Centric Introduction to Computing, Shriram Krishnamurthi [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 05/13/23: Automation of Medical Form Processing in the Context of Organ Transplantation, Marek Rychlik and Beaker Tanriover |
| 04/29/23: Q&A on the Philosophy of Games, Christopher Ba Thi Nguyen in conversation with Wei Sun [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 04/21/23: Quantity Calculus in Natural Language Semantics, Elizabeth Coppock [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 04/02/23: Path Finding with Ghihorn, Jeffrey Gennari |
| 03/17/23: The Process, Challenges, Struggles & Joys of Creating "How to Design Programs", Matthias Felleisen [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 03/03/23: Reverse Engineering UK Mobile Rail Tickets, eta [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 02/12/23: Web3 is Going Just Great, Molly White [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 02/03/23: How to Give a Good Mathematical Presentation, Anthony Bonato [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 01/28/23: Implications of Model-Based Phil/Sci for ML, Mel Andrews [AUDIO] |
| 01/15/23: Quiet: a Web3 Alternative to Discord, Holmes Wilson [VIDEO] |
| 01/06/23: Q&A: AppSec from OWASP to Present, John Viega [AUDIO] |
| 12/10/22: Challenges Encountered Building Slow Roads, Anslo |
| 12/03/22: Depths of Wikipedia, Annie Rauwerda [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 11/19/22: Nearly Optimal Property Preserving Hashing, LaKyah Tyner [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
| 11/06/22: Intro to Zero Knowledge Proofs, Gabriel Kaptchuk |
| 10/23/22: Formal Analysis of Ethereum's GossipSub in ACL2s, Ankit Kumar and Max von Hippel |
| 10/14/22: Cryptography with Quantum States, William Kretschmer [AUDIO] [VIDEO] |
| 10/08/22: Mock Theta Functions, Amanda Folsom. [ALSO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
| 09/17/22: Math Café #11: Prep for Dr. Folsom's Talk, Ammar Husain. [SLIDES] |
| 09/16/22: A Conversation on Theorem Provers and Vulnerability Research, Addison Crump and Teddy Heinen |
| 09/15/22: Math Café #10: Infinite Dimensional Analysis (Semi-Continuity), Cheng Zhang |
| 09/04/22: Math Café #9: Infinite Dimensional Analysis (Continuity & Compactness), Cheng Zhang |
| 09/03/22: A Conversation on Reverse Engineering Tooling, Matteo Giordiano |
| 08/27/22: Blockchain Café #2: Applied Cryptography and APIs, Brennon Brimhall |
| 08/07/22: Math Café #8: Infinite Dimensional Analysis (Continuity), Cheng Zhang |
| 08/05/22: The Mobile Network Battlefield in Ukraine, Cathal McDaid |
| 07/29/22: A Conversation on Reverse Engineering and Symbolic Execution, Boyan Milanov |
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07/17/22: Math Café #7: Infinite Dimensional Analysis (Filters), Cheng Zhang |
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07/16/22: The Crypto Crash(es), Cristiano Teixeira |
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07/10/22: Math Café #6: Infinite Dimensional Analysis (Topologies & Nets), Cheng Zhang [NOTES] |
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06/19/22: Assessing Recycling, Displacement, and Environmental Impacts using an Economics-Informed Material System Model, John Ryter [AUDIO] [VIDEO] |
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06/11/22: An Open Discussion on Unionizing Graduate Students, Jacob Morrison and Jeremy Stepansky |
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06/05/22: Math Café #5: The Collatz Conjecture, Max von Hippel |
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05/28/22: Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces, Albert Gu |
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05/20/22: Hybrid Systems: Not Just For Cars Anymore!, Kimberly Ayers [AUDIO] [VIDEO] |
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05/13/22: The Generalized Star Height Problem, Jean-Eric Pin [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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05/08/22: Math Café #4: Selected Topics in Kleene Algebra, Cheng Zhang |
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05/07/22: Math Café #3: Prep for Dr. Pin's Talk, Max von Hippel [NOTES] [SLIDES] [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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04/15/22: When Memory Guards are Crooked and Become Speculating Snitches, Andrea Mambretti [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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03/20/22: An Open Conversation on Web3, Spice DAO [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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03/13/22: Automated Attack Synthesis by Extracting Finite State Machines from Protocol Specification Documents, Maria Leonor Pacheco and Max von Hippel [CODE] |
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03/12/22: Live Coding: Making a Wordle Scraper and Solver, Jacob Denbeaux [CODE] [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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03/09/22: Q&A Regarding the War in Ukraine, Karin von Hippel |
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03/05/22: Seize the Means of Computation: the Big Tech Disassembly Manual, Cory Doctorow [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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03/04/22: Topology Homework Session #5: Liveness & Safety Properties |
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02/17/22: Quantum Computing in Plato's Cave, Daniel Burgarth [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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02/11/22: Math Café #2, lead by Sam Stites |
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02/10/22: Topology Homework Session #4: Homotopy Equivalence |
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02/09/22: Topology Homework Session #3: Continuity & Nullhomotopy |
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02/06/22: Trojan Source Attacks, Nicholas Boucher [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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01/22/22: How to Meet Interesting People by Accident & Design, Dan Ritter |
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01/20/22: Math Café #1, lead by Sam Stites |
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01/14/22: Topology Homework Session #2: The Quotient Topology |
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01/13/22: Topology Homework Session #1: The Zariski Topology over spec R |
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01/08/22: Covert C2 Channels, Kai Bernardini [VIDEO] [AUDIO] [GITHUB] [TWITTER] |
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12/15/21: Blockchain Café #1: Formal Methods for Smart Contracts [PAPER] |
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12/04/21: Feynman Integrals for a Mathematical Audience, Matt von Hippel [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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12/03/21: Aesthetic and Organic Complexity, Tyler Hobbs and Bill Cresco, moderated by Joe and Anya [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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10/29/21: It's Just Math and Other Lies We Tell Ourselves, Jade Edenstar Master |
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10/24/21: An Extensible and Modular Design and Implementation of Monte Carlo Tree Search for the JVM, Larkin Liu and (in attendance) Jun Tao Luo [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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10/15/21: Mathematical Programming Modulo Strings, Ankit Kumar [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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10/09/21: Types in PL Research vs Types in Julia, Julia Belyakova [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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09/25/21: Labor and Unions, Jacob Morrison and Adam Keller [NU Grad Union] [ALSO: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 ] |
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09/18/21: Live |
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09/12/21: More Category Theory for More Cybernetics, Matteo Capucci [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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08/28/21: Compilation Techniques for Reconfigurable Analog Devices, Sara Achour [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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08/20/21: An Open Question in Category Theory, Alex Martsinkovsky [NOTES] |
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08/14/21: Minimal Length Representations of Database Provenance, Neha Makhija |
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07/30/21: Structural Attacks on Local Routing in Payment Channel Networks, Ben Weintraub [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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07/24/21: Linear Haskell, Artem Pelenitsyn [SLIDES] [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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07/10/21: Biology Café #1: The Illogical Nature of Chemical Nomenclature, Sophia von Hippel [NOTES] [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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06/25/21: Q&A, John Launchbury |
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06/13/21: Modeling Content and Context with Deep Relational Learning, Maria Leonor Pacheco [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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06/06/21: Quantum Café #5: Formal Methods (revisited) |
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05/29/21: Homotopy Type Theory 101, Carlo Angiuli [VIDEO] [AUDIO] |
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05/15/21: How Does a Health Actuary Estimate a Reserve?, Paul Johnson [CHANNEL] |
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05/01/21: Assembly Programming for M1, Chris Patuzzo [SLIDES] |
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04/25/21: Open Discussion |
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04/17/21: Quantum Café #4: Grand Unified Theories |
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04/11/21: Project Waves, Jacob Denbeaux [RELATED NEWS] |
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03/27/21: Introduction to Operational Security, The Grugq |
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03/21/21: Quantum Café #3: Syntax and Semantics [NOTES] |
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03/13/21: Concurrent Interpretations of Authorization Logic, Andrew K. Hirsch [PAPERS: 1,2,3] [SLIDES] |
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02/28/21: Quantum Café #2: Noisy Quantum Gates |
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02/27/21: Nuclear Non Proliferation - Role of Citizen Scientists, Frank N. von Hippel [COALITION] |
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02/21/21: Quantum Series #2: Entanglement, Billy Kalfus |
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02/13/21: Quantum Café #1: Formal Methods |
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02/07/21: Quantum Series #1: Fundamentals, Billy Kalfus |
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01/24/21: Algorithmic Artwork, Tyler Hobbs |
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01/09/21: Category Theory for Cybernetics, Jules Hedges |
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12/27/20: Dilemma Languages & Moral Codes, Max von Hippel [NOTES] [RELATED] |
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12/13/20: Compositional PCA for Microbiome data, Jamie Morton [CODE] |
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11/29/20: Parsing Real-World Data Formats, Prashant Anantharaman [SLIDES] |
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11/15/20: What Decentralization Is And Isn't, Paul Miller [SLIDES] |
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11/01/20: The Yoneda Lemma, Tyler Bryson [SLIDES] [BOOK] |
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10/17/20: Overfitting Management in ML Applications, Frances Hubis |
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10/03/20: Testing the Paradigm of Asteroidal Dust around White Dwarfs, Ted von Hippel |
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09/20/20: Implications of Collaborative Filtering, Jacob Denbeaux |
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09/06/20: Graph Representations for Higher Order Logic, Sam Stites |
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08/16/20: Programming from Galois Connections, Max von Hippel [NOTES full of typos] |
We're not the only rodeo in town. If you like us, be sure to check out the BU POPV Seminar (organized by our very own Cheng Zhang), Intercats (from the Topos Institute), TMWYF, the Online Worldwide Seminar on Logic and Semantics, London Computation Club, Chaitin School of Engineering, IIT Bangalore Theory Club, Offbeat Computation Club, MIT CSAIL Security Seminar, MIT Categories Seminar, Waterloo ML+Logic Colloquium, Northeastern PL Seminar, CiviTech, and always-wonderful Northeastern Topology Seminar. If you like podcasts, we highly reccomend We Speak Your Language, The Iowa Type Theory Commute, and My Favorite Theorem. If you'd like your venue to be listed here as well, shoot Max an email.
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