PhD Day with Google
1:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Google will conduct a PhD Informational Session on Friday, November 14th, from 1:30-3 PM. They are actively recruiting for various intern and full-time Research and Engineering roles.
This candid conversation with Google's PhD software engineers will allow you to learn how research works at Google, the problems they're solving, and discover the path they took from their PhD to a career at Google.
Registration Information will be shared via email.
*Event Audience: PhD Students
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Transcend On-Campus Interview Day
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
CS Lounge
Transcend is the privacy infrastructure that unleashes growth for the world’s greatest brands. We automate data and consumer preference governance at the systems layer to unlock AI, personalized experiences, and growth with speed and confidence. We integrate directly into data and vendor ecosystems—automating & enforcing privacy, security, and governance policies in real time, across every system and every user interaction.
Transcend is actively recruiting for a Software Engineer role. They will be conducting On-Campus Interviews.
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*Event Audience: CS Columbia Graduate Students (MS & PhD)
Quantum Networks: A Classical Perspective
11:40 AM to 1:00 PM
CSB 451 CS Auditorium
Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Abstract:
Quantum information processing is at the threshold of having significant impact on technology and society in the form of providing unbreakable security, ultra-high-precision distributed sensing, and polynomial/exponential speed-ups in computing. Many of these applications are enabled by high rate distributed shared entanglement between pairs and groups of users. A critical missing component that prevents crossing this threshold is a distributed infrastructure in the form of a world-wide “Quantum Internet”. This motivates the study of quantum networks, namely, to identify the right architecture and how should it operate, e.g., dynamic fair allocation of resources. Moreover, the architecture and network operation must account for operation in harsh, noisy environments.
This talk addresses the following question: what ideas can the design of a quantum network borrow from classical networks? At first glance the answer appears to be “very little”. The focus of this talk, however, is to argue that the opposite is true and that much can be borrowed from classical networks. We begin by reviewing two proposed quantum network architectures two-way and one-way architectures. A two-way network generates and distributes quantum entanglement to pairs or groups of users whereas a one-way network allows for direct transfer of quantum information from one user to another. We compare these architectures and conclude that a two-way architecture is superior. A two-way architecture appears very different from the classical Internet architecture. However, we will introduce a “connectionless” two-way quantum network architecture that allows one to easily adapt many ideas from classical networks (good and bad
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