"Pedro Nunes Lectures" back to the UC in online format
The lecture ""Addressing the Growing Distrust in Algorithms with More Mathematics" will be conducted by Shafi Goldwasser, Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
Translation by Diana Taborda
The annual "Pedro Nunes Lectures" event returns to the University of Coimbra (UC) with the theme "Addressing the Growing Distrust in Algorithms with More Mathematics".
Organised by the International Centre for Mathematics (CIM), the lecture will be delivered in a webinar format on the 16th of June at 5pm and has as guest Shafi Goldwasser, Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing.
In the abstract for the conference, Shafi Goldwasser reveals that "data-driven algorithms are being considered for decision-making in many aspects of our lives: bail, medical care, loans, credit scoring, education, and law enforcement, among others. At the same time, distrust in the accuracy, fairness, and privacy of these algorithmic methods may make their use impossible".
According to Shafi Goldwasser, the lecture aims to "to present new results for verifying the accuracy of machine learning algorithms, even without full access to the code, and how to achieve robustness against adversarial test distributions".
The "Pedro Nunes Lectures" event is organised by CIM to promote the presence in Portugal of prominent mathematicians, who are invited to deliver two or three lectures in Portuguese universities on recent developments in mathematics, their applications and cultural impact.
Watch the lecture here.
Shafi Goldwasser is the Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, and the C. Lester Hogan Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley. She is also the RSA Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT, and a professor of computer science and applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel. Goldwasser received a BS in applied mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1979, and MS and PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley in 1984. Shafi Golwasser is also the holder of several scientific and professional awards, such as the "ACM Turing Award 2012".