Artificial Intelligence (AI) will have a growing impact on all sciences and business sectors, our private lives, and society as a whole. It is pre-eminently a multidisciplinary technology that connects scientists from a wide variety of research areas, from behavioural science and ethics to mathematics and computer science. Without downplaying the importance of its interdisciplinary nature, it is apparent that mathematics can and should play an active role. As Robbert Dijkgraaf observed in NRC in May 2019: ''Artificial intelligence is in its adolescent phase, characterised by trial and error, self-aggrandisement, credulity and lack of systematic understanding''. Mathematics can contribute to this much-needed systematic understanding of AI and at the same time lay the ground work for further improvements.
In the two-day program we showcase recent research on the interface between mathematics and AI. There will be plenty of time for informal discussions, as well as strategic sessions.
RegistrationThe workshop is free of charge after registration, please register here.
If you have any questions, please contact us at: aim@nwo.nl
Accommodation
Hotel reservation can be booked directly at Hotel Casa for a corporate rate of 119 euro including breakfast. Please use the promotion code AI&Mathematics.
Program (flyer)
Thursday 9 June
8:00 – 9:00 Registration
9:00 – 9:10 Opening Christoph Brune
9:10 – 10:40 DIAMANT chair: Steven Kelk
Marten van Dijk – CWI (30 min)
On the Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent
Ronald de Wolf – CWI/University of Amsterdam (30 min)
Mathematical Aspects of Quantum Machine Learning
Antonios Antoniadis – University of Twente (30 min)
Learning-Augmented Algorithms for Dynamic Power Management
10:40 – 10:55 Coffee break
10:55 – 12:25 STAR chair: Evgeny Verbitskiy
Peter Grünwald – CWI/Leiden University (30 min)
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Stochastic Mathematics in Artificial Intelligence
Tim van Erven – University of Amsterdam (30 min)
Statistics and Machine Learning: Towards a Closer Integration
Bert Zwart – CWI/Eindhoven University of Technology (30 min)
Machine Learning and applied probability
12:25 – 13:45 Lunch break
13:45 – 15:15 GQT chair: Christoph Brune
Pepijn Roos Hoefgeest – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (45 min)
An introduction to persistent homology
Bram Mesland – Leiden University (45 min)
Quantum geometry in noisy data
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 NDNS+ chair: Tristan van Leeuwen
Gitta Kutyniok – LMU Munich (45 min)
Scientific Computing meets Artificial Intelligence
Remco Duits – Eindhoven University of Technology (45 min)
PDE-G-CNNs: PDE-based roto-translation equivariant convolutional neural networks and applications
17:00 – 18:30 Poster session and drinks
18:30 – 21:00 Workshop dinner at Maslow, Carolina MacGillavrylaan 3198, 1098 XK Amsterdam
Friday 10 June
8:00 – 9:00 Arrival and registration
9:00 – 10:00 DIAMANT chair: Mathias Staudigl
Etienne de Klerk – Tilburg University (30 min)
Analyzing the worst-case behavior of popular optimization algorithms used in machine learning
Ilker Birbil – University of Amsterdam (30 min)
A Scalable Rule Generation Framework for Learning
10:00 – 11:00 STAR chair: Tim van Erven
Jaron Sanders – Eindhoven University of Technology (20 min)
Analyzing dropout training in neural networks from a stochastic perspective
Rianne de Heide – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (20 min)
Stochastic bandits
Arnoud den Boer – University of Amsterdam (20 min)
Cartel formation by data-driven price algorithms
11:00 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:15 GQT chair: Bram Mesland
Ieke Moerdijk – Utrecht University (60 min)
Shuffles of Trees
12:15 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:30 NDNS+ chair: Tristan van Leeuwen
Felix Lucka – CWI (20 min)
Deep Learning in Computational Imaging
Palina Salanevich – Utrecht University (20 min)
Online non-negative matrix factorization as a tool in data processing
Marcello Carioni – University of Twente (20 min)
Learning adversarial regularizers for inverse problems
14:30 – 17:00 Strategic session chair: Wil Schilders
Inald Langedijk – AiNed (15 min)
Mengwu Guo – 4TU-AMI (15 min)
Strategic Research Initivatives proposal Discussion
Group discussions
17:00 – 18:00 Farewell drinks
The program booklet with abstracts is available here.
Organizing team
- Christoph Brune (University of Twente), chair
- Leo van Iersel (TU Delft, co-chair), Mathias Staudigl (UM) and Steven Kelk (UM), representatives of DIAMANT
- Wil Schilders (TU/e) and Tristan van Leeuwen (CWI), representatives NDNS+
- Evgeny Verbitskiy (UL), representative STAR
- Bram Mesland (UL), representative GQT
- Olivia Muthsam (NWO)
- Nada Mitrovic (CWI)
