3:00–4:00 p.m.
Textual backdoor attacks pose a serious threat to natural language processing (NLP) systems. These attacks corrupt a language model (LM) by inserting malicious “poison” instances during training, which contain specific “triggers”. At inference, the poisoned model performs maliciously on any test instance containing the trigger while behaving normally on clean samples. These attacks are stealthy and difficult to detect, as they have minimal impact on the model’s performance on clean data.
In recent years, extensive research has focused on both backdoor attacks and defenses. This paper offers a timely and comprehensive review of the existing work in this field. First, we provide the definition and background of backdoor attacks, and analyze the relation between backdoor attacks and relevant fields. Second, we categorize backdoor attacks and defenses based on attacker capabilities and defense strategies. Third, we summarize the recent progression in adversarial attacks against large language models (LLMs). Additionally, we introduce the commonly used benchmark tasks, models, datasets, and toolkits. Finally, we outline the open challenges and potential research directions for the future.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Join the UO Linguistics Department for Spring Colloquium.
Tuesdays, 3:30p-5:00p, Straub Hall Rm 145
Oct 3 Dr. Don Daniels, UO Linguistics
Oct 10 Dr. Rosa Vallejos-Yopan, U of New Mexico
Oct 17 Dr. Volya Kapatsinski, UO Linguistics
Oct 24 Dr. Allison Taylor-Adams & Dr. Kaylynn Gunter, UO Linguistics
Oct 31 Dr. Stefan Th. Gries, UC Santa Barbara
Nov 7 Dr. Jennifer O'Neal, UO History
Nov 14 Dr. Meghan Sumner, Standford U
Nov 21 Dr. Cera Smith, UO IRES
4:30 p.m.
Matthew Dickman is the author of Husbandry, Wonderland, Mayakovsky’s Revolver, and All-American Poem, winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize. His other honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Sarton Award for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. For the past decade he has worked in advertising and has written Super Bowl commercials for Chrysler, Kia, and Maserati as well as helping both small and big brands with storytelling. Dickman was the poetry editor for Tin House Magazine and then again for Tin House books, helping to launch their current poetry list. He lives in Portland, Oregon with his two sons.
3:00–4:15 p.m.
Please join us for the Knight Campus 2023 fall Entrepreneurship Speaker Series, featuring Jorge Cham.
In his lecture, Jorge Cham will recount his experiences bringing humor into the lives of millions of stressed out academics and tells stories from his travels to over 300 universities and research centers in the US and across the world. Thought-provoking yet humorous, Jorge Cham's talk will examine the source of academics' anxieties, explore the myth of procrastination, and help academics figure out how to convey what they've learned to the outside world.
Jorge Cham is the best-selling and Emmy-nominated creator of PHD Comics, the popular ongoing comic strip about life (or the lack thereof) in academia. He is the co-creator and co-executive producer of the celebrated animated series Elinor Wonders Why, which airs on PBS Kids and in 78 countries around the world. He is the co-author of the award-winning book We Have No Idea (and its follow-up FAQ-U), and the co-host of the iHeart Radio show Daniel and Jorge Explain the Universe. He is also the co-founder of PHDtv, a video science and discovery outreach collaborative, and the author of the upcoming books Oliver's Great Big Universe and Out of Your Mind. Jorge earned his PhD in robotics from Stanford University and was an instructor and research associate at Caltech from 2003-2005. He is originally from Panama.
This event is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, and the School of Journalism and Communication.
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Join the UO Linguistics Department for Spring Colloquium.
Tuesdays, 3:30p-5:00p, Straub Hall Rm 145
Oct 3 Dr. Don Daniels, UO Linguistics
Oct 10 Dr. Rosa Vallejos-Yopan, U of New Mexico
Oct 17 Dr. Volya Kapatsinski, UO Linguistics
Oct 24 Dr. Allison Taylor-Adams & Dr. Kaylynn Gunter, UO Linguistics
Oct 31 Dr. Stefan Th. Gries, UC Santa Barbara
Nov 7 Dr. Jennifer O'Neal, UO History
Nov 14 Dr. Meghan Sumner, Standford U
Nov 21 Dr. Cera Smith, UO IRES
3:30–5:00 p.m.
Lecture by Jackson Smith (University of Oregon)
During the 1980s Philadelphia police officers dubbed the Black and Latinx neighborhoods of North Philadelphia where the illicit narcotics trade concentrated “The Badlands.” This geologic term naturalized the decline of these neighborhoods, obscuring the political-economic forces that gave rise to the drug economy. In this talk I interrogate the making of the Badlands, both through decades of racialized disinvestment in these neighborhoods and through a popular discourse that sought to make sense of the consequences. I show how the Badlands discourse shaped municipal approaches to the problem of disinvestment, legitimizing police interventions that increasingly focused on the specter of the “crack house” and culminated with the demolition of entire blocks of rowhouses during the early 1990s.
The Department of History’s Seminar Series runs throughout the academic year and features guest speakers from the nation’s top universities who share their perspectives on history. Visit history.uoregon.edu for more information about this event and others in the series.
noon
Duck-dive into the mind of cybersecurity leader and CEO Dave Cole of Open Raven. At this exclusive virtual event, you’ll get a sneak peek into Cole's day-to-day life as a pioneering CEO in the tech startup space. He’ll answer all the hot questions: how CEOs get to be CEOs, what it really takes to start your own company, the state of cybersecurity, and so much more.
Register for this FREE virtual session: https://uobiz.co/oemba-alumni-dave-cole-ama
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Dave Cole is a cybersecurity veteran with more than twenty-six years of experience. His career has taken him from leadership roles in consulting companies like Deloitte and ISS, to enterprise with Foundstone, CrowdStrike, and Tenable, to consumer product companies like Norton. He is currently the CEO and cofounder of Open Raven, a post-Series B company that has pioneered the Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) cybersecurity product category. Cole is a frequent spokesperson on the topic of cybersecurity, speaking on NBC, CNN, and at cybersecurity conferences such as RSA and Black Hat. He’s currently a member of the board for the University of Michigan School of Information and cohosts the Security Voices podcast, now in its fourth season with over fifty episodes.
9:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Want to see what it's like to work for some of the most innovative tech companies in Oregon AND explore Eugene all at the same time?! Have we got a Friday morning for you! Hop on the bus and let’s go explore!
Students will have the opportunity to tour local companies passionate about creating innovative solutions for complex problems, and helping YOU learn more about all the different types of job functions needed to keep this growing industry booming. They are excited to introduce you to careers and internships at their companies, meet alumni and leaders, and show off some of their innovations in action!
This event is FREE, open to all majors, and bring a friend! Register on Handshake to save your spot! Our last tour had a waitlist, so sign up today!
OUTLINE OF TOUR: Lane Transit District (LTD) will pick up students in front of Matt Knight Arena Box Office at 9am in one of their brand-new electric buses to take you around Eugene while learning about the local tech landscape. While at the stops, you'll get an opportunity to tour their facilities as well as meet with leaders in the field. The bus will then return to Matt Knight Arena no later than 12:30 pm to drop everyone off.
ABOUT OUR TOUR STOPS: *COMING SOON!
Sponsored by University Career Center and Collaborative Economic Development Oregon as part of the 2023 UO Career Readiness Week October 13-2023 http://career.uoregon.edu/events
3:00–5:00 p.m.
Join us to learn about the challenging, rewarding, and inspiring moments of service from a panel of returned Peace Corps Volunteers and country staff who will share stories from their unique service journeys abroad.
This event is part of the 2023 Fall Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events
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Hot chocolate and cookies with a side of resume! Did you know you can have someone review your resume before the Fall Career & Internship Expo on 10/19? Drop-in with a career readiness coach or peer coach in Tykeson Hall Commons to get feedback on your resume.
Don’t have a resume? Come learn how to make one!
Want to apply for the Peace Corps? We'll also have returned Peace Corps volunteers available to review resumes and give advice about the application process with any interested students! Ask for Carolyn Williams!
This event is part of the 2023 Fall Career Readiness Week sponsored by the University Career Center, Enterprise Holdings, and Sherwin Williams. To learn more about all of the week's events visit http://career.uoregon.edu/events