Berkeley Security Seminar: Spring 2016

The Berkeley Security Seminar strives to foster greater discussion and collaboration between researchers at Berkeley and outside researchers and engineers who work on large-scale security and privacy. Once or twice a month, we bring in an external speaker for a technical talk on Fridays from 12pm to 1pm in 380 Soda Hall, followed by individual meetings with students, postdocs, and faculty. Please see the Current Seminar Schedule for this semester's talks.

Speaker Schedule

Date Speaker Title Abstract
Jan 29 Eric Rozier, University of Cincinnati Data Integrity Based Attacks in the New Era of Adversarial Data Science and Engineering [LINK]
Feb 11 (Thurs)
(1pm)
373 Soda
Phillip Rogaway, UC Davis
Time and venue change
The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work: An essay, its genesis, and its reception [LINK]
Feb 26 Anupam Das, UIUC Tracking Mobile Web Users Through Motion Sensors: Attacks and Defenses [LINK]
Mar 11 Henry Corrigan-Gibbs, Stanford University Space-Hard Functions for Password Hashing [LINK]
Apr 8 Bay Area Security Research Summit Square, San Francisco
Apr 12 (Tues) Mirko Manske, BKA German Law Enforcement and Cyber Crime
Apr 15 Ben Hawkes, Google What makes software exploitation hard? [LINK]
Apr 29 Jon Oberheide, Duo Security Security and Usability in Enterprise IT [LINK]

Info for Speakers

The audience for this seminar typically consists of PhD students, postdocs, and faculty in the security group at Berkeley. Given the nature of this audience, speakers should give concrete, technical talks (similar to talks at academic security conferences); expect lots of questions and technical discussion! The most well-received talks have focused on discussing one or two specific projects in depth; broad overview and recruiting talks are not an appropriate fit for this forum. If you conduct work on important security and privacy issues and are interested in giving a technical talk, please contact Grant Ho (grantho@cs)!

Past Seminars

Fall 2015
Spring 2015
Security Lab