Events 2018

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Apart from a scientific semester programme CWI organizes mini-symposia, masterclasses, lectures with renowned speakers (like the Abel prize winners from 2022), hackathons and data challenges. Additionally, we organize and host other regular scientific meetings like reading groups, seminars, collaboration sessions and open-problem sessions. The format is flexible to meet the preferences of the participants.

NWO event: Connect@CWI

13 Sep 2018 from 9:30 a.m. to 13 Sep 2018 1:30 p.m. | Forum, L016, L017

On Thursday 13 September, we are organizing the Connect@CWI event at CWI. This event is an NWO initiative and its purpose is to introduce our institute to our colleagues at NWO and NWO-I.

LSH Seminar Ziyuan Wang

11 Sep 2018 from 4 p.m. to 11 Sep 2018 5 p.m. | CWI, L016

Automatic radiotherapy plan emulation for 3D dose reconstruction to enable big data analysis for historically treated patients

N&O seminar: Yllka Velaj (CWI)

11 Sep 2018 from 11 a.m. to 11 Sep 2018 noon | CWI, Lecture room L016

Yllka Velaj (CWI) will give a lecture with the title 'Information spreading with network augmentation'.

PhD defence Pham Minh Duc (DA)

6 Sep 2018 from 3:45 p.m. to 6 Sep 2018 5 p.m. | Aula at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1105

It is my great pleasure to invite you to the public defence of the PhD thesis of Pham Minh Duc.

ML Seminar: Thomas Moerland (Delft University)

4 Sep 2018 from 11 a.m. to 4 Sep 2018 noon | CWI, Room L016

Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar 'Monte Carlo Tree Search for Asymmetric Trees' given by Thomas Moerland. Please visit the website for more information.

Special session in memory of Willem Hundsdorfer at the NUMDIFF-15 conference in Halle

3 Sep 2018 from 2 p.m. to 7 Sep 2018 3 p.m. | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (Germany)

Just announced by Karel in't Hout (Antwerp); There will be a special session in memory of Willem Hundsdorfer at the NUMDIFF-15 meeting in Halle Germany from 3-7 September 2018. More information can be found at the website.

Seminar by Vedran Dunjko (LIACS, University of Leiden) on Reinforcement learning in the quantum domain.

20 Jul 2018 from 11 a.m. to 20 Jul 2018 noon | L0.16 @CWI Science Park 123, Amsterdam

ML Seminar: Tristan Cossio (Netflix)

19 Jul 2018 from 11 a.m. to 19 Jul 2018 noon | CWI, Lecture room L016

With pleasure we announce this seminar: Data Science at Netflix Data science at Netflix is much more than just personalized recommendations (e.g. the 2006-2009 Netflix Prize) - it is also a critical aspect of streaming, quality control, and content development and buying decisions. This talk surveys the breadth of data science work at Netflix, with a specific focus on how the Content Science & Algorithms team (based in Hollywood CA) uses machine learning for valuation and programming of Licensed & Original content.