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Tentative class schedule. Check back frequently for updates.
| Date | Topic | Reading | Assignment |
| 21-Aug | Intro to privacy, administrivia | Ch 1, 2 | |
| 23-Aug | Laplace mech | Ch 3.3 | HW 1 out |
| 28-Aug | Exponential mech | Ch 3.4 | |
| 30-Aug | Randomized response | Ch 3.2 | |
| 4-Sep | Labor Day (no class) | ||
| 6-Sep | Sparse Vector 1 | Ch 3.5, 3.6 | HW 1 due / HW 2 out |
| 11-Sep | Hurricane (no class) | ||
| 13-Sep | Sparse Vector 2 | ||
| 18-Sep | Reuable Holdout | paper | |
| 20-Sep | SmallDB 1 | Ch 4.1 | HW 2 due (Fri) |
| 25-Sep | SmallDB 2 | Ch 4.2 | HW 3 out |
| 27-Sep | Generalization for Adaptive Analysis | paper | |
| 2-Oct | Private Multiplicative Weights 1 | ||
| 4-Oct | Private Multiplicative Weights 2 | HW 3 due (Fri) | |
| 9-Oct | Fall Student Recess (no class) | ||
| 11-Oct | Crash course on game theory | Proposal due (Fri) | |
| 16-Oct | Guest lecture: Sara Krehbiel | ||
| 18-Oct | Joint differential privacy and mechanism design | Proposals returned | |
| 23-Oct | INFORMS (no class) | Work on project | |
| 25-Oct | Guest lecture: Jake Abernethy | Work on project | |
| 30-Oct | TPDP (no class) | Work on project | |
| 1-Nov | Privately solving LPs | ||
| 6-Nov | Subsample and aggregate | Ch 7.1 | |
| 8-Nov | Propose-Test-Release | Ch 7.2 | Mid-project update due |
| 13-Nov | Differentially private ERM | paper | |
| 15-Nov | DP in practice: RAPPOR | paper | |
| 20-Nov | Locally private heavy hitters | ||
| 22-Nov | Thanksgiving Break (no class) | ||
| 27-Nov | Student presentations | ||
| 29-Nov | Student presentations | ||
| 4-Dec | Beyond differential privacy | ||
| 13-Dec | Final exam period (no class) | Project due |