Apart from a scientific semester programme CWI organizes mini-symposia, masterclasses, lectures with renowned speakers, 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.
Events 2025
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Inaugural lecture Daniel Dadush: Adventures in Optimization
10 Mar 2025
from 4:15 p.m.
| Auditorium (Aula) of the Academiegebouw, Domplein 29 in Utrecht
On 10 March 2025 Daniel Dadush gives his inaugural lecture at Utrecht University, entitled 'Adventures in Optimization'. It can be followed online.
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Random structures and patterns in spatial data through Gibbs marked point processes with interactions
10 Mar 2025
from 2 p.m.
to 10 Mar 2025 3 p.m.
| CWI, Science Park 123, room L016
Radu Stefan Stoica, Professor in spatial statistics at the University of Lorraine and at INRIA, Nancy, France, will visit CWI on Monday, 10 March, 2025. He will present his research in a talk at 2pm. All are welcome.
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Machine Learning Seminar Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon University)
10 Mar 2025
from 10:30 a.m.
to 10 Mar 2025 11:30 a.m.
| CWI, L016
E-variables for hypotheses generated by constraints
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Machine Learning Seminar Shubhada Agrawal
5 Mar 2025
from 11 a.m.
to 5 Mar 2025 noon
| CWI, room L016
Markov Chain Variance Estimation: A Stochastic Approximation Approach
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Machine Learning Seminar Rafael Frongillo, University of Colorado Boulder
28 Feb 2025
from 10:30 a.m.
to 28 Feb 2025 11:30 a.m.
| CWI, L017
Incentive problems in data science competitions, and how to fix them
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PhD Defence Changqing Lu (ST)
27 Feb 2025
from 12:30 p.m.
to 27 Feb 2025 2 p.m.
| University of Twente, Drienerlolaan 5, Waaier 4, Enschede
The PhD Defence of Changqing Lu will be on Thursday 27 February 2025 at Twente University on "Statistical and machine learning contributions to spatial and spatio-temporal point process modelling, with an application to Dutch fire risk prediction"
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ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data
27 Feb 2025
from 9 a.m.
to 27 Feb 2025 6 p.m.
| Science Park Congress Centre, Science Park 125, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The aim of the workshop is to connect researchers working on this topic and surface novel research ideas and collaboration opportunities by bringing views from the NLP, ML, DB, and IR disciplines together.
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PhD Defence Dyon van Vreumingen A&C / QuSoft
20 Feb 2025
from 10 a.m.
to 20 Feb 2025 noon
| Agnietenkapel, Oudezijds Voorburgwal229 - 231, Amsterdam
Dyon van Vreumingen will defend the dissertation 'Strategies for adiabatic state preparation of quantum many-body systems'. Promotors are Prof. C.J.M. Schoutens and co-promotor Prof. L. Visscher.
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