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Cyber Hour with the CSWG

Sponsored by:
MIIS Organization
The “Cyber Hour” event series, hosted by the Cyber Security Working Group (CSWG), is intended to provide our MIIS community with a space for discussions surrounding the evolving global cyber threat landscape. Designed for people of all levels of interest, expertise, and backgrounds, meeting participants will enjoy engaging in thought-provoking conversations, learning from guest speakers, and taking technical workshops to enhance their knowledge and proficiency of cyber security. Our aim is to increase cyber resilience among individuals, our communities, and ultimately, nation states.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Closed to the Public

Cyber Hour with the CSWG

Sponsored by:
MIIS Organization
The “Cyber Hour” event series, hosted by the Cyber Security Working Group (CSWG), is intended to provide our MIIS community with a space for discussions surrounding the evolving global cyber threat landscape. Designed for people of all levels of interest, expertise, and backgrounds, meeting participants will enjoy engaging in thought-provoking conversations, learning from guest speakers, and taking technical workshops to enhance their knowledge and proficiency of cyber security. Our aim is to increase cyber resilience among individuals, our communities, and ultimately, nation states.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Closed to the Public

Cyber Hour with the CSWG

Sponsored by:
MIIS Organization
The “Cyber Hour” event series, hosted by the Cyber Security Working Group (CSWG), is intended to provide our MIIS community with a space for discussions surrounding the evolving global cyber threat landscape. Designed for people of all levels of interest, expertise, and backgrounds, meeting participants will enjoy engaging in thought-provoking conversations, learning from guest speakers, and taking technical workshops to enhance their knowledge and proficiency of cyber security. Our aim is to increase cyber resilience among individuals, our communities, and ultimately, nation states.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Closed to the Public

Russian -Turkish Relations After the Cold War

Sponsored by:
Academic Programs - MIIS
Sener Akturk is Professor in the Department of International Relations at Koç University. He is a scholar of comparative politics, with a focus on comparative politics of ethnicity, religion, and nationalism. After completing his BA and MA at the University of Chicago and his PhD in political science at the University of California, Berkeley, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Government at Harvard University.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Closed to the Public

Daniel Cohen, “Byte Wars: The Intersection of Tech, Cyber, and Psychological Warfare”

Sponsored by:
Vice President's Office - MIIS
In the coming month, the cybersecurity faculty search is bringing three finalists to campus. Each finalist will give a talk and have meetings with students, faculty, and administrators.

Daniel Cohen, “Byte Wars: The Intersection of Tech, Cyber, and Psychological Warfare” 

CNS V499 VTC Room or Zoom

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Closed to the Public

Vermont, Silicon Valley, and the Future

Sponsored by:
Vice President's Office - MIIS
Google Ventures founder and CEO, Bill Maris (Middlebury College ’97), invests in startups at the epicenter of science, technology, and medicine, oversees $2.4B in capital, and has funded more than 300 companies in the GV portfolio, including Uber, Slack and Nest. In this talk, he’ll share his perspective on his unpredictable career, how he went from Vermont to Silicon Valley, and how entrepreneurs and innovation will shape our future. Following the lecture, Prof.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Closed to the Public

Seminar: "Connecting the dots: germs and pixels"

Sponsored by:
Vice President's Office - MIIS
Co-sponsored by MonTREP and MIIS Cyber Initiative Dr. Horosanu, who has been investigating the links between her medical research into bioterrorism and her security/defense work on cybercrime, will discuss this research effort and her findings in her seminar.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Open to the Public

Bioweapons... for Dummies? Evaluating the Threat of Rogue Biohacking

THE MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY AND THE JAMES MARTIN CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES PRESENT A Seminar “Bioweapons… for Dummies? Evaluating the Threat of Rogue Biohacking” “Scholars claim that recent technology advances mean that even teenagers can make bioweapons. While this is theoretically possible, it is also very unlikely. Mr. Liu will present a plausible pathway for amateur biohackers to engineer a weapon, and assess the difficulty of every step.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Open to the Public

Descending from the Summit: Where We Are Headed on Nuclear Security

THE MIDDLEBURY INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL STUDIES AT MONTEREY AND THE JAMES MARTIN CENTER FOR NONPROLIFERATION STUDIES PRESENT A Seminar “Descending from the Summit: Where We Are Headed on Nuclear Security.” Speaker William H. Tobey William H. Tobey is a Senior Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He was most recently Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the National Nuclear Security Administration. There, he managed the U.S.

V499 Van Buren Videoconference Rm

Open to the Public