Essential concepts of Causal inference—a remarkable history
Speaker: Don Rubin (Harvard Statistics) Title: Essential concepts of Causal inference—a remarkable history Abstract: I believe that a deep understanding of cause and effect, and how to estimate causal effects from data, complete with the associated mathematical […]
Computer-assisted analysis of singularity formation of a regularized 3D Euler equation
Speaker: Tom Hou, Caltech Title: Computer-assisted analysis of singularity formation of a regularized 3D Euler equation
Harmonic functions and the chromatic polynomial
Speaker: Richard Kenyon, Brown Title: Harmonic functions and the chromatic polynomial
A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks
Speaker: Andrea Montanari (Stanford) Title: A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks Abstract: Multi-layer neural networks are among the most powerful models in machine learning and yet, the fundamental […]
Black Holes and Naked Singularities
Speaker: Ramesh Narayan, Department of Astronomy, Harvard University Title: Black Holes and Naked Singularities Abstract: Black Hole solutions in General Relativity contain Event Horizons and Singularities. Astrophysicists have discovered two […]
Graph Structure in Polynomial Systems: Chordal Networks
Speaker: Pablo Parillo (MIT) Title: Graph Structure in Polynomial Systems: Chordal Networks Abstract: The sparsity structure of a system of polynomial equations or an optimization problem can be naturally described by a […]