COVID-19: Tracking, data privacy, and getting the numbers right:

As plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, mechanisms to track the SARS-COV-2 virus become increasingly critical to consider. In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, Berkeley faculty will present their recent research findings and data on COVID-19 infection and death rates. They will discuss how they are using data to better understand how many people are infected and actually dying from COVID-19, whether infections and deaths are going up or down, and how much we can afford to increase mobility. They also will address broader questions about what data we need, how to protect it using encryption, and how to improve the ways we track and limit the pandemic.� Event Details

Panelist/Discussants: Shafi Goldwasser, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Director of the Simons Institute, Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing; Uros Seljak, Professor of Physics, BIDS Senior Fellow, UC Berkeley Physics; Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor, UC Berkeley Statistics

Moderator: Saul Perlmutter, Professor of Physics, Director of BIDS, Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS)

Sponsors: Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Data Sciences

Live Webcast
Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19
COVID-19: Tracking, data privacy, and getting the numbers right
Date: Wednesday, May 13, 2020
Time: 10:00-11:00 AM Pacific

As plans for re-opening businesses, communities, and schools emerge, mechanisms to track the SARS-COV-2 virus become increasingly critical to consider. In this conversation led by Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, Director of the Berkeley Institute for Data Science and Professor of Physics, Berkeley faculty will present their recent research findings and data on COVID-19 infection and death rates. They will discuss how they are using data to better understand how many people are infected and actually dying from COVID-19, whether infections and deaths are going up or down, and how much we can afford to increase mobility. They also will address broader questions about what data we need, how to protect it using encryption, and how to improve the ways we track and limit the pandemic. The panelists will be Shafi Goldwasser, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Director of the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing; Uros Seljak, Professor of Physics, BIDS Senior Fellow; and Jacob Steinhardt, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics

This conversation is sponsored by UC Berkeley’s Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science as part of a live online video series, Berkeley Conversations: COVID-19, featuring Berkeley scholars from a range of disciplines.

Target audience: All Audiences

Open to audience: All Audiences

Event Contact: bids@berkeley.edu, 510-664-4506

Access Coordinator: Fenner, Marsha,  bids@berkeley.edu,  510-664-4506