From f12afeda37a8ebeb3bfc1a52dc468fed9a92204c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Justin Hsu Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2020 11:27:33 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Merge organization page into main page. --- website/docs/index.md | 83 ++++++++++++++++++++----------------- website/docs/org.md | 88 ---------------------------------------- website/docs/syllabus.md | 37 +++++++++++++++++ website/mkdocs.yml | 1 - 4 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 126 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 website/docs/org.md diff --git a/website/docs/index.md b/website/docs/index.md index 16419b0..9eb0760 100644 --- a/website/docs/index.md +++ b/website/docs/index.md @@ -27,15 +27,19 @@ For the first ten weeks, lectures will be held on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. In the remaining five weeks, you will work on your course projects. Though there are no lectures scheduled in this period, I will be available to meet as needed. -## Accommodations for Remote Students +We will be using **Piazza** to discuss papers, ask questions, and find group +members: -To provide opportunities for live discussion, lectures will be held -synchronously. To accommodate students attending from other time zones, all -lectures will be recorded and uploaded to BBCU (this may take a few hours). -Students who are not able to attend synchronously will not be able to present a -paper and write a presentation summary. Instead, these students will complete -paper reviews asynchronously. See the [assignments](assignments/presentations) -tab for more information. +- + +You can also contact me directly. To ensure that your email goes to the right +place, please start the subject with **CS763**. + +## Course Staff + +- **Instructor**: [Justin Hsu](https://justinh.su) +- **Email**: +- **Office hours**: By appointment ## Grading @@ -57,6 +61,40 @@ submission (0), below expectations (1), meets expectations (2). Assignments that significantly exceed expectations can receive additional (bonus) points. The final project will be graded on a **10-point** scale. +### Paper presentations + +In groups of two you will lead one lecture, presenting a few related papers and +guiding the discussion; details [here](assignments/presentations.md). + +### Presentation reports + +In groups of two you will write up a detailed summary of another group's +presentation; details [here](assignments/summaries.md). + +### Course Project + +The main course component is the **course project**. You will work individually +or in pairs on a topic of your choice, producing a conference-style write-up and +presenting the project at the end of the semester. The best projects may +eventually lead to a research paper or survey. Details can be found +[here](assignments/project.md). + +## Accommodations for Remote Students + +To provide opportunities for live discussion, lectures will be held +synchronously. To accommodate students attending from other time zones, all +lectures will be recorded and uploaded to BBCU (this may take a few hours). +Students who are not able to attend synchronously will not be able to present a +paper and write a presentation summary. Instead, these students will complete +paper reviews asynchronously, through **HotCRP**: + +- + +!!! attention + If you are not able to regularly attend live lectures in your time zone, you + must let me know **during the first week of the course** so I can set up + your account. + ## Academic Honesty **Writing is a central part of this course.** All students are expected to @@ -69,32 +107,3 @@ be online---this is expressly **against the course policies**. You should complete the review as if you were seeing the paper for the first time. Just like conference reviewing, all paper reviews are to be done **by yourself**: you should not talk to anyone about the paper until **after** you have submitted it. - -## Piazza - -We will be using **Piazza** to discuss papers, ask questions, and find group -members: - -- - -You can also contact me directly. To ensure that your email goes to the right -place, please start the subject with **CS763**. - -## HotCRP - -If you are not able to attend live lectures and you are completing paper -reviews, we will be using **HotCRP** to organize paper reviews. HotCRP is the -software used to manage most conferences in computer science. Through this site, -you will be able to submit reviews. We have set up a mock HotCRP for this -course: - -- - -If you are not able to attend live lectures in your time zone, you must let me -know during the first week so I can set up your account. - -## Course Staff - -- **Instructor**: [Justin Hsu](https://justinh.su) -- **Email**: -- **Office hours**: By appointment diff --git a/website/docs/org.md b/website/docs/org.md deleted file mode 100644 index 7f7327d..0000000 --- a/website/docs/org.md +++ /dev/null @@ -1,88 +0,0 @@ -Lectures will be loosely organized around three core modules: differential -privacy, adversarial machine learning, and applied cryptography. We will also -cover two advanced modules: algorithmic fairness, and PL and verification -techniques. - -This is a graduate seminar, so not all lectures are set in stone and there is -considerable flexibility in the material. If you are interested in something not -covered in the syllabus, please let me know! - -## Course Materials - -For differential privacy, we will use the textbook *Algorithmic Foundations of -Data Privacy* (AFDP) by Cynthia Dwork and Aaron Roth, available -[here](https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~aaroth/Papers/privacybook.pdf). - -## Grading and Evaluation - -Grades will be assigned as follows: - -- **Paper presentations: 20%** -- **Presentation reports: 20%** -- **Final project: 60%** (Milestones 1 and 2, and final writeup) - -These three components are detailed below. - -### Paper presentations - -In groups of two you will lead one lecture, presenting a few related papers and -guiding the discussion; details [here](assignments/presentations.md). - -### Presentation reports - -In groups of two you will write up a detailed summary of another group's -presentation; details [here](assignments/summaries.md). - -### Course Project - -The main course component is the **course project**. You will work individually -or in pairs on a topic of your choice, producing a conference-style write-up and -presenting the project at the end of the semester. The best projects may -eventually lead to a research paper or survey. Details can be found -[here](assignments/project.md). - -## Learning Outcomes - -By the end of this course, you should be able to... - -- Summarize the basic concepts in differential privacy, applied cryptography, - and adversarial machine learning. -- Use techniques from differential privacy to design privacy-preserving data - analyses. -- Grasp the high-level concepts from research literature on the main course - topics. -- Present and lead a discussion on recent research results. -- Carry out an in-depth exploration of one topic in the form of a self-directed - research project. - -## Credit Information - -This is a **3-credit** graduate seminar. For the first 10 weeks of the fall -semester, we will meet for three 75-minute class periods each week. You should -expect to work on course learning activities for about 3 hours out of classroom -for each hour of class. - -## Academic Integrity - -The final project may be done in groups of three (or in rare situations, two) -students. Collaborative projects with people outside the class may be allowed, -but check with me first. Everything else you turn in---from homework assignments -to discussion questions---should be **your own work**. Concretely: you may -discuss together, but **you must write up solutions entirely on your own, -without any records of the discussion (physical, digital, or otherwise)**. - -## Access and Accommodation - -The University of Wisconsin-Madison supports the right of all enrolled students -to a full and equal educational opportunity. The Americans with Disabilities Act -(ADA), Wisconsin State Statute (36.12), and UW-Madison policy (Faculty Document -1071) require that students with disabilities be reasonably accommodated in -instruction and campus life. Reasonable accommodations for students with -disabilities is a shared faculty and student responsibility. Students are -expected to inform me of their need for instructional accommodations by the end -of the third week of the semester, or as soon as possible after a disability has -been incurred or recognized. I will work either directly with you or in -coordination with the McBurney Center to identify and provide reasonable -instructional accommodations. Disability information, including instructional -accommodations as part of a student’s educational record, is confidential and -protected under FERPA. diff --git a/website/docs/syllabus.md b/website/docs/syllabus.md index bbb7a6d..3c6467e 100644 --- a/website/docs/syllabus.md +++ b/website/docs/syllabus.md @@ -24,3 +24,40 @@ areas, depending on student interest: - Zero-knowledge proofs - Secure multi-party computation - Verifiable computation + +## Learning Outcomes + +By the end of this course, you should be able to... + +- Summarize the basic concepts in differential privacy, applied cryptography, + and adversarial machine learning. +- Use techniques from differential privacy to design privacy-preserving data + analyses. +- Grasp the high-level concepts from research literature on the main course + topics. +- Present and lead a discussion on recent research results. +- Carry out an in-depth exploration of one topic in the form of a self-directed + research project. + +## Credit Information + +This is a **3-credit** graduate seminar. For the first 10 weeks of the fall +semester, we will meet for three 75-minute class periods each week. You should +expect to work on course learning activities for about 3 hours out of classroom +for each hour of class. + +## Access and Accommodation + +The University of Wisconsin-Madison supports the right of all enrolled students +to a full and equal educational opportunity. The Americans with Disabilities Act +(ADA), Wisconsin State Statute (36.12), and UW-Madison policy (Faculty Document +1071) require that students with disabilities be reasonably accommodated in +instruction and campus life. Reasonable accommodations for students with +disabilities is a shared faculty and student responsibility. Students are +expected to inform me of their need for instructional accommodations by the end +of the third week of the semester, or as soon as possible after a disability has +been incurred or recognized. I will work either directly with you or in +coordination with the McBurney Center to identify and provide reasonable +instructional accommodations. Disability information, including instructional +accommodations as part of a student’s educational record, is confidential and +protected under FERPA. diff --git a/website/mkdocs.yml b/website/mkdocs.yml index 94f8ce2..a49db0a 100644 --- a/website/mkdocs.yml +++ b/website/mkdocs.yml @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ nav: - Home: - About: 'index.md' - Syllabus: 'syllabus.md' - - Organization: 'org.md' - Schedule: - Lectures: 'schedule/lectures.md' - Deadlines: 'schedule/deadlines.md'