BEGIN:VCALENDAR BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:CWI Lectures on Machine Learning (2017) DTSTART:20171123T110000Z DTEND:20171123T170000Z UID:dd5e71a8-cec9-4b92-b622-cbbd0b1420e3 DESCRIPTION:This year\, the CWI Lectures will be held on Thursday 23 Novem ber. The theme will be Machine Learning and the afternoon will be organize d by CWI's newly established Machine Learning group. The speakers Neil Law rence\, Suchi Saria\, Max Welling and Csaba Szepesvári are all world lea ding machine learning researchers.\n\nLocation:\nTuringroom at Congress Ce ntre Amsterdam Science Park LOCATION:Turingroom at Congress Centre Amsterdam Science Park END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Tom Florian Sterkenburg (ML) DTSTART:20180118T133000Z DTEND:20180118T160000Z UID:3005e635-a6ab-4ac9-9c0b-ab042cb6be3e DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the public lecture of Tom Flori an Sterkenburg of his thesis entitled 'Universal Prediction'.\n\nContact:\ nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nUniversiteit Groningen\, Ac ademiegebouw\, Broerstraat 5 Groningen LOCATION:Universiteit Groningen\, Academiegebouw\, Broerstraat 5 Groningen END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lecture Sandy Zabell: The paradox of German high-level cryptograph y in WWII DTSTART:20180122T100000Z DTEND:20180122T113000Z UID:36572e1a-e47d-4382-87c2-6f2e24ff8bba DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend this CWI Lecture of Sandy Zabell ( a joint ML-group/RISC colloquium)\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne @cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Eulerroom LOCATION:CWI\, Eulerroom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML & CR Lecture: Prof. Sandy Zabell: The paradox of German high-le vel cryptography in WWII DTSTART:20180122T100000Z DTEND:20180122T110000Z UID:1d645d3a-76d6-4e8b-8ae9-df259b72f250 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture of prof. Sandy Zabel l\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Eulerro om LOCATION:CWI\, Eulerroom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Lecture Claire Monteleoni (ML seminar) DTSTART:20180423T090000Z DTEND:20180423T100000Z UID:bf269ac5-c2bc-41aa-92e7-915dd968c9fa DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture of Claire Monteleoni . Algorithms for Climate Informatics: Learning from spatiotemporal data wi th both spatial and temporal non-stationarity ---- Claire Monteleoni\n\nCo ntact:\nWouter Koolen\nW.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Victor Veitch DTSTART:20180622T090000Z DTEND:20180622T100000Z UID:4f857f17-2836-492b-bce4-40e8424a3fc7 DESCRIPTION:Announcement of the CWI Machine Learning seminar with Victor V eitch (Columbia University) Title of his lecture: Compressibility and Gene ralization in Large-Scale Deep Learning\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen\nW.M.Ko olen-Wijkstra@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Tristan Cossio (Netflix) DTSTART:20180719T090000Z DTEND:20180719T100000Z UID:f4219eb0-5bf4-40e7-a464-50a33a515d68 DESCRIPTION:With pleasure we announce this seminar: Data Science at Netfli x Data science at Netflix is much more than just personalized recommendati ons (e.g. the 2006-2009 Netflix Prize) - it is also a critical aspect of s treaming\, quality control\, and content development and buying decisions. This talk surveys the breadth of data science work at Netflix\, with a s pecific focus on how the Content Science & Algorithms team (based in Holly wood CA) uses machine learning for valuation and programming of Licensed & Original content.\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen\nW.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@cwi.nl\ n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Lecture room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Thomas Moerland (Delft University) DTSTART:20180904T090000Z DTEND:20180904T100000Z UID:1481ae90-8489-41bd-8ead-fad9647c9973 DESCRIPTION: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.\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl \n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Jaron Sanders (Delft University) DTSTART:20180920T080000Z DTEND:20180920T090000Z UID:9e84ea58-f8ee-4d34-b4ce-747a0d0d4b76 DESCRIPTION:We have the pleasure to announce our CWI Machine Learning semi nar with Jaron Sanders with the title: Optimal Clustering Algorithms in Bl ock Markov Chains\n\nContact:\nSusanne van Dam\nsusanne@cwi.nl\n\nLocation :\nCWI\, Lecture room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, Lecture room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Frans Oliehoek (Delft University) DTSTART:20181101T100000Z DTEND:20181101T110000Z UID:a168b817-e8d4-445c-886e-e91f8199c99b DESCRIPTION:Everybody is welcome to attend the ML lecture 'Bayesian Reinf orcement Learning for Problems with State Uncertainty' given by Frans Olie hoek.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Glenn Shafer (Rutgers Business School – Newark and N ew Brunswick) DTSTART:20181217T100000Z DTEND:20181217T110000Z UID:0bec0fdb-b16f-470d-a405-44a9faa7ecd0 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar by Glenn Shafer\, who is one of the grand masters of the Game-Theoretic probability framewo rk\, with the title 'Game-Theoretic Statistics'\n\nContact:\nWouter Koole n\nW.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Par k 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Bas Braams (CWI) DTSTART:20190404T090000Z DTEND:20190404T100000Z UID:97d3695f-cf69-43d2-abdf-1326462c5165 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the public lecture of Bram\, ent itled 'Machine learning of equivariant functions inspired by atomistic mod elling'.\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Alberto Riminucci (Institute for the Study of Nanostru ctured Materials\, CNR) DTSTART:20190509T083000Z DTEND:20190509T100000Z UID:489cf497-c5ab-4188-a3ea-8ca04abb4a02 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar of Alberto Riminu cci\, with the title 'Charge and spin transport in molecular spin valves a nd their application in neuromorphic computing'.\n\nContact:\nSander Boht é\nS.M.Bohte@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L017 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Odalric Ambryn-Maillard (INRIA Lille) DTSTART:20190604T090000Z DTEND:20190604T100000Z UID:7af326e2-0458-4989-ab39-3e5eeb2ee787 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar of Odalric Ambryn -Maillard with the title 'A small tour of time-uniform concentration inequ alities and some open problems'\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen-Wijkstra\nW.M.K oolen-Wijkstra@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Rianne de Heide (CWI/Leiden University) DTSTART:20190614T090000Z DTEND:20190614T100000Z UID:735c92a8-6ee8-48e5-8aff-2cd7fe2e6ec6 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar of Rianne de Heid e with the title 'The truth-convergence of open-minded Bayesianism'.\n\nLo cation:\nRoom L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Event-based Asynchronous Neuro-Cognitive Control DTSTART:20190826T100000Z DTEND:20190828T130000Z UID:353139a9-5154-4902-a20c-7cbd1ef79dda DESCRIPTION:This workshop aims to bring together experts in computational neuroscience and machine learning to foster collaboration and start workin g on integrating the various components into coherent end-to-end cognitive models.\n\nContact:\nSander Bohte\nsbohte@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCentrum Wi skunde & Informatica (CWI) LOCATION:Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Yasin Abbasi (VinAI Research) DTSTART:20190917T090000Z DTEND:20190917T100000Z UID:f2756014-96a2-4f26-b3ba-197ed7abbf3d DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar of Yasin Abbasi w ith the title 'Efficient exploration in sequential decision making problem s'.\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen-Wijkstra\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, S cience Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Sébastien Gerchinovitz (Université Toulouse III - Pa ul Sabatier) DTSTART:20191008T090000Z DTEND:20191008T100000Z UID:f5e21531-beb7-4173-bc71-734517d7ccf7 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar of Sébastien Ger chinovitz with the title 'Regret analysis of the Piyavskii-Shubert algorit hm'.\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science P ark 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Alexander Marx DTSTART:20191010T090000Z DTEND:20191010T100000Z UID:148be531-5af0-4a6e-a639-4826bfa262c5 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar of Alexander Marx with the title 'Testing Conditional Independence on Discrete Data using S tochastic Complexity'.\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Alexander Marx (International Max Planck Research Scho ol for Informatics) DTSTART:20191010T090000Z DTEND:20191010T100000Z UID:c56a90e7-e5b5-4cb1-baeb-4cd3b6d333a3 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend de ML seminar of Alexander Marx with the title 'Testing Conditional Independence on Discrete Data using St ochastic Complexity'.\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen-Wijkstra\n\nLocation:\nRo om L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Rémi Bardenet (CNRS & CRIStAL\, Univ. Lille) DTSTART:20191031T100000Z DTEND:20191031T110000Z UID:c25e2924-4ecb-4ecd-88e3-ccd200d9ad3b DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the ML seminar of Rémi Bardenet with the title 'DPPs everywhere: repulsive point processes for Monte Carl o integration\, signal processing and machine learning'.\n\nContact:\nWout er Koolen-Wijkstra\nW.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nRoom L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L016 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Marten van Dijk (University of Connecticut\, on sabbat ical at CWI) DTSTART:20191128T100000Z DTEND:20191128T110000Z UID:89cc88f4-7602-4721-8bbe-ba52d4bc1929 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the lecture of Marten van Dijk w ith the title 'New Convergence Aspects of Stochastic Gradient Descend with Diminishing Learning Rate'.\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen-Wijkstra\n\nLocati on:\nRoom L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam LOCATION:Room L120 at CWI\, Science Park 123 in Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML seminar: Julia Olkhovskaya (Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona) DTSTART:20200213T100000Z DTEND:20200213T110000Z UID:0c8623ed-c0ee-400d-a0ee-005a56eed8aa DESCRIPTION:Efficient and Robust Algorithms for Adversarial Linear Context ual Bandits\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen-Wijkstra\nW.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@cwi.n l\n\nLocation:\nL120 LOCATION:L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Uitgesteld: ML Seminar Audra McMillan (Boston University/Northeast ern University) DTSTART:20200326T100000Z DTEND:20200326T110000Z UID:f9c56be2-c180-4383-acf1-59f9c63e855a DESCRIPTION:Private Hypothesis Testing via Robustness\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen-Wijkstra\nW.M.Koolen-Wijkstra@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nL120 LOCATION:L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Rianne de Heide (ML) DTSTART:20210126T151500Z DTEND:20210126T161500Z UID:f5779180-7264-459a-803c-b49f3bb843e1 DESCRIPTION:Everyone is welcome to attend the online defence of Rianne de Heide of her thesis ' Bayesian learning: challenges\, limitations and prag matics'. Promotors: Prof.dr. P.D. Grünwald (CWI\, UL) and Prof.dr. J.J. Meulman (UL) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar: Faramarz Faghihi DTSTART:20210804T080000Z DTEND:20210804T090000Z UID:3dd8748e-df02-4cfa-b516-07f862e32984 DESCRIPTION:A Bio-Inspired Evolving Spiking Neural Network for Spatiotempo ral-Data Classification\n\nContact:\nSander Bohte\nSander.Bohte@cwi.nl\n\n Location:\nL120 LOCATION:L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Johanna Ziegel\, University of Bern DTSTART:20210910T120000Z DTEND:20210910T130000Z UID:7c37b952-ebbf-4b12-b5c5-cef54b089c39 DESCRIPTION:Valid sequential inference on probability forecast performance \n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen\nwmkoolen@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI room L016 LOCATION:CWI room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Neuromorphic Computing Netherlands (NCN2021) DTSTART:20210924T105000Z DTEND:20210924T160000Z UID:38a463a2-4f77-49c0-822b-f361ffdce20f DESCRIPTION:Neuromorphic Computing is rapidly emerging as the principle pa radigm for EdgeAI. In this workshop\, we aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from algorithmic\, architectural and application domain s in the Netherlands.\n\nContact:\nSander.Bohte@cwi.nl\nsander.bohte@cwi.n l\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, Euler room LOCATION:CWI\, Euler room END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Judith ter Schure (Machine Learning) DTSTART:20220407T130000Z DTEND:20220407T140000Z UID:ff784b93-f9e7-4249-9f19-036a1cfdd34c DESCRIPTION:ALL-IN meta-analysis\n\nContact:\nJudith ter Schure\nschure@cw i.nl\n\nLocation:\nUniversiteit Leiden\, Rapenburg 73\, Groot Auditorium LOCATION:Universiteit Leiden\, Rapenburg 73\, Groot Auditorium END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Paradiso lecture Sander Bohte DTSTART:20220619T090000Z DTEND:20220619T100000Z UID:65a1b101-8a91-4379-816d-8d71fd828bf8 DESCRIPTION:Kijken in de ziel van AI. Over het brein als computer\n\nLocat ion:\nParadiso\, Weteringschans 6\, 1017 SG Amsterdam LOCATION:Paradiso\, Weteringschans 6\, 1017 SG Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar by Emre Neftci (Forschungszentrum Jülich \, UC Irvine) DTSTART:20220620T113000Z DTEND:20220620T123000Z UID:18fc5380-3c2f-4a37-9e98-08570097fa72 DESCRIPTION:Meta-Training Neuromorphic Hardware with Surrogate Gradients\n \nContact:\nSander Bohte\nsander.bohte@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, L017 LOCATION:CWI\, L017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Symposium on Learning Algorithms for Spiking Neural Networks DTSTART:20221213T091500Z DTEND:20221213T120000Z UID:cbf8b191-7898-4370-a493-17b6ba40f9fa DESCRIPTION:\n\nContact:\nSander Bohte\nSander.Bohte@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\n CWI\, room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Bojian Yin (Machine Learning) DTSTART:20221214T100000Z DTEND:20221214T110000Z UID:9a3580d9-ac23-40d8-aab2-30b682c8669e DESCRIPTION:Efficient Spiking Neural Networks\n\nContact:\nBojian Yin\nb.y in@tue.nl\n\nLocation:\nEindhoven University Atlas 0.710 LOCATION:Eindhoven University Atlas 0.710 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Lynn Sörensen (Machine Learning) DTSTART:20230117T140000Z DTEND:20230117T150000Z UID:793fce57-ba64-41eb-abdb-223cbce31ec6 DESCRIPTION:Deep Neural Network Models of Visual Cognition\n\nContact:\nLy nn Sörensen\nl.k.a.sorensen@uva.nl\n\nLocation:\nUvA Agnietenkapel\, Oude zijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam LOCATION:UvA Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 231\, Amsterdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 1 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230308T140000Z DTEND:20230308T160000Z UID:48e6c785-6e6d-4efb-99ea-a2746fd53cab DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nContact:\nWouter Koolen\nwouter.ko olen@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koo len@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 2 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230322T140000Z DTEND:20230322T160000Z UID:10629184-7121-4e66-9b3e-7282d30c83fc DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016 contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 3 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230405T130000Z DTEND:20230405T150000Z UID:53e948e9-d3ad-4467-8ecf-6ac9f95f1d37 DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016\, conta ct information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 4 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230419T130000Z DTEND:20230419T150000Z UID:710012ea-5579-4a86-896c-452593da3885 DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016\, conta ct information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 5 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230510T130000Z DTEND:20230510T150000Z UID:8c23e5e6-d242-4a2b-8adf-76b3b69a9358 DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016\, conta ct information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 6 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230524T130000Z DTEND:20230524T150000Z UID:e78c7376-f127-4616-a2e0-299a87207d1d DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016\, conta ct information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Van Dantzig Seminar DTSTART:20230602T130000Z DTEND:20230602T150000Z UID:fead59e7-4ed9-4f93-9b56-b350cab22dd5 DESCRIPTION:Nationwide series of lectures in statistics: speakers Christia n Robert and François Caron\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, L016 LOCATION:CWI\, L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 7 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230607T130000Z DTEND:20230607T150000Z UID:72835711-f68e-47ea-a085-e7981f2161fa DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016\, conta ct information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seminar++ part 8 - Machine Learning Theory (Semester Programme) DTSTART:20230621T130000Z DTEND:20230621T150000Z UID:27a60ee6-1cef-4944-beb5-64e3cb2c0ed6 DESCRIPTION:Series of 8 meetings for NL PhD/Researchers with talks followe d by research/brainstorming hour(s).\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016\, conta ct information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl LOCATION:CWI\, room L016\, contact information wouter.koolen@cwi.nl END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD defence Muriel Pérez (ML) DTSTART:20230706T130000Z DTEND:20230706T140000Z UID:799c1f4f-5093-4bf0-9273-7007b1c85c0e DESCRIPTION:Are we there yet? Advances in Anytime-Valid Methods for Hypoth esis Testing and Prediction\n\nLocation:\nLeiden University\, Academy Buil ding\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Leiden LOCATION:Leiden University\, Academy Building\, Rapenburg 73\, 2311 GJ Lei den END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Shaul Bar-Lev DTSTART:20230818T093000Z DTEND:20230818T103000Z UID:92af1923-1730-436d-a324-067342a7fdf1 DESCRIPTION:An Infinite Class of Exponential Family Dispersion Models for Count Data - A Survey of Current Research.\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, L120 LOCATION:CWI\, L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Łukasz Dębowski DTSTART:20230915T130000Z DTEND:20230915T140000Z UID:53f82ae1-b389-4d97-8e95-f32d4e496b06 DESCRIPTION:Universal densities for stationary measures\n\nLocation:\nCWI\ , room L102 LOCATION:CWI\, room L102 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Talk by Debabrota Basu (INRIA Lille) DTSTART:20231108T093000Z DTEND:20231108T103000Z UID:4044421a-b2ed-4d6c-b055-ccfa6c5a7996 DESCRIPTION:When Privacy meets Partial Information: Refining the Different ial Privacy Definitions\, Lower Bounds\, and Algorithm Designs for Sequen tial Learning\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, L120 LOCATION:CWI\, L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Rosanne Turner (Machine Learning) DTSTART:20231114T101500Z DTEND:20231114T111500Z UID:da09cf0b-8734-454f-8441-39fcf7842349 DESCRIPTION:Safe Anytime-Valid Inference: from Theory to Implementation in Psychiatry Research\n\nLocation:\nAcademiegebouw of Leiden University\, R apenburg 73\, Leiden LOCATION:Academiegebouw of Leiden University\, Rapenburg 73\, Leiden END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning talk by Professor Herbert Jaeger DTSTART:20240125T100000Z DTEND:20240125T110000Z UID:28fe5353-3272-4f4a-9895-f2cadd555595 DESCRIPTION:It has taken 2350 years to understand symbolic-logical computi ng. Next step: understanding brains and stuff.\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L0 16 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Reuben Adams (UCL) DTSTART:20240216T100000Z DTEND:20240216T110000Z UID:5b2514cc-caa4-4e46-b3ef-af9727bdb329 DESCRIPTION:Could we lose control of AI? Exploring the arguments of an old and reignited debate\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L017 LOCATION:CWI\, room L017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning talk by Christopher Currin\, IST Austria DTSTART:20240227T150000Z DTEND:20240227T160000Z UID:09183ac0-22ad-4c63-82ee-18499812191e DESCRIPTION:Human cortical cultures and artificial models: Understanding i ndividuals with epilepsy\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L120 LOCATION:CWI\, room L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Naomi Chaix-Eichel (INRIA Bordeaux) DTSTART:20240327T150000Z DTEND:20240327T160000Z UID:63f20ac7-3be6-4ab0-b76a-8858fd0b6066 DESCRIPTION:Investigates the impact of topology on decision-making process es and beyond with recurrent neural networks\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L01 6 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Talk by Dr Ashesh Dhawale\, Indian Institute of Science\, Bengalur u\, India DTSTART:20240715T113000Z DTEND:20240715T123000Z UID:b37a8930-3eb4-4d24-afbd-1aeeab91d33c DESCRIPTION:The role of variability in motor learning\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar dr. Sander Keemink (Radboud University) DTSTART:20250116T133000Z DTEND:20250116T143000Z UID:90c09002-1b61-49f7-824e-4414a4a2cc27 DESCRIPTION:Spiking control through local predictive optimization\n\nConta ct:\nAditya Gilra\nAditya.Gilra@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, L120 LOCATION:CWI\, L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Yunda Hao (ML) DTSTART:20250218T133000Z DTEND:20250218T143000Z UID:70d761b0-5c17-49f2-b73c-0389f3d56775 DESCRIPTION:E-Values for Anytime-Valid Inference with Exponential Families \n\nContact:\nYunda Hao\nYunda.Hao@cwi.nl\n\nLocation:\nLeiden University\ , Academy Building (Rapenburg 73\, Leiden) LOCATION:Leiden University\, Academy Building (Rapenburg 73\, Leiden) END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Rafael Frongillo\, University of Colorado Boulder DTSTART:20250228T093000Z DTEND:20250228T103000Z UID:5aba5293-b6f0-4e9e-973d-7b317b3bde50 DESCRIPTION:Incentive problems in data science competitions\, and how to f ix them\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, L017 LOCATION:CWI\, L017 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Shubhada Agrawal DTSTART:20250305T100000Z DTEND:20250305T110000Z UID:a7cf0132-8c82-4eee-bf32-f10c7ba98755 DESCRIPTION:Markov Chain Variance Estimation: A Stochastic Approximation A pproach\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Martin Larsson (Carnegie Mellon Universit y) DTSTART:20250310T093000Z DTEND:20250310T103000Z UID:e0fe6d22-ba34-4940-9b28-c0c03a66eb0b DESCRIPTION:E-variables for hypotheses generated by constraints\n\nLocatio n:\nCWI\, L016 LOCATION:CWI\, L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Inaugural lecture Wouter M. Koolen: Exploration and the shape of i nformation DTSTART:20250313T150000Z DTEND:20250313T160000Z UID:7fff5fae-ed26-4a5f-96f8-9f5880f11b00 DESCRIPTION:On Thursday 13 March 2025\n\nLocation:\nUniversity of Twente\, Waaier Building\, Drienerlolaan 5\, Enschede LOCATION:University of Twente\, Waaier Building\, Drienerlolaan 5\, Ensche de END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning: Connections and Challen ges - Spring School DTSTART:20250317T080000Z DTEND:20250321T170000Z UID:25bd8c9f-c8d6-4611-a1bb-1ead55ffd6f2 DESCRIPTION:This Spring School 2025 is part of the Research Semester Progr amme "Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning: Connections and Challenge s". Five lecturers will be teaching at a preparatory PhD level across five days.\n\nLocation:\nTuring Hall\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Ne therlands. LOCATION:Turing Hall\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands. END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Themes across Control and Reinforcement Learning DTSTART:20250324T081500Z DTEND:20250325T170000Z UID:d36c61b0-d988-41c2-9e98-70970018b278 DESCRIPTION:Following our Spring School 2025 of the research semester prog ramme on Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning\, we have a general wor kshop on Themes across Control and Reinforcement Learning.\n\nLocation:\nS cience Park 125\, Turingzaal LOCATION:Science Park 125\, Turingzaal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Modern Applications of Control Theory and Reinforcemen t Learning DTSTART:20250520T071500Z DTEND:20250521T160000Z UID:358a9327-0e29-439f-ac91-eee71da798be DESCRIPTION:Following our Spring School and workshop on Themes across Cont rol and Reinforcement Learning\, of the research semester programme on Con trol Theory and Reinforcement Learning\, we have a workshop on Modern Appl ications of Control Theory and Reinforcement Learning.\n\nLocation:\nScien ce Park 125\, Turingzaal LOCATION:Science Park 125\, Turingzaal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Gido van de Ven (U Leuven) DTSTART:20250604T090000Z DTEND:20250604T100000Z UID:26d0877d-6dc7-4ea8-a9c1-97ecfab050a4 DESCRIPTION:A new direction for continual learning: ask not just where to go\, also how to get there\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, L120 LOCATION:CWI\, L120 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Tyron Lardy (ML) DTSTART:20250618T140000Z DTEND:20250618T150000Z UID:ce180617-8598-4e59-aa8d-10ae1a93b168 DESCRIPTION:Optimal Test Statistics for Anytime-Valid Hypothesis Tests\n\n Location:\nLeiden University\, Academy Building LOCATION:Leiden University\, Academy Building END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on Theory of Control and Reinforcement Learning DTSTART:20250619T070000Z DTEND:20250620T160000Z UID:fbd733bf-ddb5-4c85-a514-a6f18fb2ae82 DESCRIPTION:As a part of our semester programme\, we organise a workshop o n “Theory of Control and Reinforcement Learning” on June 19-20\, 2025 at CWI\, Amsterdam.\n\nLocation:\nScience Park 125\, Turingzaal LOCATION:Science Park 125\, Turingzaal END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:PhD Defence Sanne van den Berg (ML) DTSTART:20250701T110000Z DTEND:20250701T120000Z UID:15d3b111-ad6f-4ac8-802e-77af0e078f7a DESCRIPTION:Biologically plausible reinforcement learning\n\nLocation:\nUv A Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 - 231\, 1012 EZ Amsterdam LOCATION:UvA Agnietenkapel\, Oudezijds Voorburgwal 229 - 231\, 1012 EZ Ams terdam END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Scientific Machine Learning and Numerical Methods – Autumn Schoo l DTSTART:20251027T083000Z DTEND:20251031T143000Z UID:d1b3a736-c1f5-44fe-b2e3-8890ee51867b DESCRIPTION:This Autumn School 2025 is part of the Research Semester Progr amme "Bridging Numerical Analysis and Scientific Machine Learning: Advance s and Applications." Over the course of five days\, five lecturers will pr ovide preparatory PhD-level instruction through a combination of lectures and interactive sessions.\n\nLocation:\nEuler room\, Congress Center\, Sci ence Park 125 LOCATION:Euler room\, Congress Center\, Science Park 125 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Workshop on industrial applications of numerical analysis and mach ine learning DTSTART:20251201T083000Z DTEND:20251203T130000Z UID:18d7b4a0-d90d-4b4e-ad4a-1f828a3507ec DESCRIPTION:This workshop is part of the Research Semester Programme ”Br idging Numerical Analysis and Scientific Machine Learning: Advances and Ap plications”. The workshop will facilitate open discussion between resear chers across different fields together with industrial practitioners.\n\nL ocation:\nTuring room\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands LOCATION:Turing room\, CWI\, Science Park 125\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Machine Learning Seminar Lucie Fontaine (INRIA Bordeaux) DTSTART:20251210T130000Z DTEND:20251210T140000Z UID:1d676d1b-e998-4482-9422-c0851585aecf DESCRIPTION:Semantic and episodic memories in the neocortex and the hippoc ampus\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L102 LOCATION:CWI\, room L102 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar Bojian Yin (Institute of Automation\, Chinese Academy o f Sciences\, Beijing) DTSTART:20260218T150000Z DTEND:20260218T160000Z UID:2f1d86df-abc0-41c8-afcd-2ec2839a7068 DESCRIPTION:Selective-Update RNNs: A New Architecture for Long-Range Seque nce Modeling\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar Andrew Nobel (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hi ll) DTSTART:20260316T150000Z DTEND:20260316T160000Z UID:ff80d50f-7069-4d44-8efe-eb3ccf4232a6 DESCRIPTION:Graph Joinings\, Graph Isomorphism\, and Reversible Markov Cha ins\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L016 LOCATION:CWI\, room L016 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ML Seminar Andreas Papachristodoulou (University of Cyprus) DTSTART:20260317T130000Z DTEND:20260317T140000Z UID:796226e9-76bf-42ea-b158-56bfaa43544f DESCRIPTION:Channel-wise Competitive Learning: Transparent Layer-wise Trai ning for Deep Networks\n\nLocation:\nCWI\, room L017 LOCATION:CWI\, room L017 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR