Fridays 1-2PM, DSL Conference Room
The DSL Seminar is a weekly gathering of the research students and professors in the Distributed Systems Laboratory. We discuss research ideas and specific projects within the University of Pennsylvania as well as external to Penn. We welcome visitors to participate as both speakers and audience members. Funding for DSL seminar lunches is sponsored by Vanguard and Comcast.
Schedule for Spring 2025
| Date | Speaker | TOPIC/REMARKS |
|---|---|---|
| January 24 | André DeHon | Securing Computing Systems with Software-Defined Metadata Processing |
| January 31 | ||
| February 7 | Yiping Ma | Recent Progress in Private Information Retrieval—Theory and Practice |
| February 14 | ||
| February 21 | ||
| February 28 | Hao Chung | Rapidash: Atomic Swaps Secure under User-Miner Collusion |
| March 7 | Trisha Datta | VerITAS: Verifying Image Transformations at Scale |
| March 14 | Spring Break | |
| March 21 | PhD Open House | |
| March 28 | ||
| April 4 | Hanfei Yu | Optimizing Serverless Computing for AI Systems |
| April 11 | Frank Wang | Zero-Overhead Model Checkpointing via Network Gradient Replication |
| April 18 | Jiali Xing Yinda Zhang | (NSDI practice talks) |
| April 25 | Ryan Lehmkuhl | Distributional Private Information Retrieval |
| May 2 | Natacha Crooks | Basil: Breaking up BFT with ACID (transactions) |
| May 9 | Darya Kaviani | Myco: Unlocking Polylogarithmic Accesses in Metadata-Private Messaging |