<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Islam Faisal</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/</link><atom:link href="https://decltypeme.github.io/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><description>Islam Faisal</description><generator>Wowchemy (https://wowchemy.com)</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><image><url>https://decltypeme.github.io/images/icon_hu0b7a4cb9992c9ac0e91bd28ffd38dd00_9727_512x512_fill_lanczos_center_3.png</url><title>Islam Faisal</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/</link></image><item><title>Rounding Almost Commuting Hamiltonians</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/rounding_almost_commuting_hamiltonians/</link><pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/rounding_almost_commuting_hamiltonians/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Interactive Oracle Arguments in the QROM and Applications to Succinct Verification of Quantum Computation</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/succinct_args/</link><pubDate>Thu, 23 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/succinct_args/</guid><description/></item><item><title>USENIX Lightning Talk: Fully decentralized auditable framework for privacy-preserving aggregation</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/talk/usenix-lightning-talk-fully-decentralized-auditable-framework-for-privacy-preserving-aggregation/</link><pubDate>Wed, 14 Aug 2019 13:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://decltypeme.github.io/talk/usenix-lightning-talk-fully-decentralized-auditable-framework-for-privacy-preserving-aggregation/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Limited Proxying for Content Filtering Based on X.509 Proxy Certificate Profile</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/proxying/</link><pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/proxying/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Convolutional Neural Networks and Metric Learning for Facial Verification</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/rips_jmm/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://decltypeme.github.io/publication/rips_jmm/</guid><description/></item><item><title>Quantum Cryptography Reading Group</title><link>https://decltypeme.github.io/qc-reading-group/</link><pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://decltypeme.github.io/qc-reading-group/</guid><description>&lt;h2 id="mailing-list">Mailing List&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>We use the mailing list &lt;em>pq2c-rg at cs dot bu dot edu&lt;/em> for announcements of talks and any related opportunities. &lt;a href="https://cs-mailman.bu.edu/mailman/listinfo/pq2c-rg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Please sign-up here&lt;/a>. You can also add the calendar below to your calendar for schedule of talks.&lt;/p>
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&lt;i class="fas fa-chalkboard-teacher pr-1 fa-fw">&lt;/i> If you would like to present, please send an email to &lt;em>islam at bu dot edu&lt;/em>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="spring-2021">Spring 2021&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>Schedule will be upcoming soon.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="summer-2020">Summer 2020&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>In summer 2020, we started a series of themed virtual talks around the quantum PCP conjecture. &lt;a href="https://cs-people.bu.edu/islam/qpcp-summer-2020/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Visit this link for the talks and and resources&lt;/a>.&lt;/p>
&lt;h2 id="fall-2019">Fall 2019&lt;/h2>
&lt;p>&lt;strong>Timing and Venue&lt;/strong>: Wednesday 2:30 - 3:30 PM at MCS B39 (&lt;a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/111&amp;#43;Cummington&amp;#43;Mall,&amp;#43;Boston,&amp;#43;MA&amp;#43;02215" target="_blank" rel="noopener">111 Cummington Mall, Boston, MA&lt;/a>). Due to constructions, please look for the stairs with the sign &amp;ldquo;access to classroom B39&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p>
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&lt;li>Nov. 6th: Quantum Collision Finding (Speaker: Mark Bun)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Nov. 13th: &lt;a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/0911.3814.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Quantum And Relativistic Protocols For Secure Multi-Party Computation (Roger Colbeck)&lt;/a> (Speaker: Ari Karchmer)&lt;/li>
&lt;li>Dec. 11th: &lt;a href="https://arxiv.org/pdf/1708.02130.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Classical Homomorphic Encryption for Quantum Circuits (Urmila Mahadev)&lt;/a> (Speaker: Islam Faisal)&lt;/li>
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&lt;h2 id="calendar">Calendar&lt;/h2>
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&lt;h2 id="related-seminars-around-in-crypto-and-tcs">Related Seminars Around (in Crypto and TCS)&lt;/h2>
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&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://www.bu.edu/cs/groups/busec/busec-calendar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BUSec calendar&lt;/a> for BUSec seminar and MPC reading group&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://www.bu.edu/cs/algorithms-and-theory-seminar/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">BU Theory Seminar&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://bostoncryptoday.wordpress.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Charles River Crypto Day&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://toc.csail.mit.edu/node/428" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIT CIS Seminar&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
&lt;li>&lt;a href="https://toc.csail.mit.edu/node/424" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MIT TOC Colloquium Series&lt;/a>&lt;/li>
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