CGL Meeting Minutes


Date: June 9, 2016
Location: DC 1331
Time: 11:30
Chair: Omar Zarifi
Omar Zarifi

1. Attendance

JC, Bill, Xiang, Marta, Stephen, Tyler, Matthew, Andrew, Omar, Terence

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:
Andrew - thanks!
Coffee hour this week:
Omar
Coffee hour next week:
Volunteers?

3. Forthcoming

Date: June 16, 2016 June 23, 2106 June 30, 2016 July 7, 2016
Location: DC 1331 11:30 DC 1331 11:30 DC 1331 11:30 DC 1331 11:30
Chair: Dan Vogel
Dan Vogel
Christopher Batty
Christopher Batty
Bill Cowan
Bill Cowan
Xiang Fang
Xiang Fang
Technical Presentation: Dan Vogel
Dan Vogel
Omar Zarifi
Omar Zarifi
Christopher Batty
Christopher Batty
Bill Cowan
Bill Cowan

4. Technical Presentation

Andrew Tinits

Andrew Tinits
Title : A Brief History of Neural Nets and Deep Learning
Abstract:
Deep learning has seen a meteoric rise in the last few years, achieving drastic improvements over existing methods on the hardest AI problems. Deep learning approaches are now winning the major AI contests and attracting massive interest from both academia and industry. This will be an attempt to tell the story of where it all came from.

5. Discussion Items

6. Action Items

7. Lab Events

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Recent Additions

Upcoming Deadlines

9. Directors' Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 9 June 2016, 1:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Number Theory Seminar), M3 3103
Tristin Freiberg: -- Distribution of sums of two squares in intervals
Thursday, 9 June 2016, 4:00PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , M3 3127
Lajos Horvath: -- Statistical Inference for Panel Data
Friday, 10 June 2016, 3:30PM - Pure Mathematics (Analysis Seminar), MC 5403
Adam Dor On: -- Classification of C*-envelopes of tensor algebras arising from stochastic matrices
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 2:00PM - 2016 J.W. Graham Medal Seminar, DC 1302
Tas Tsonis: -- How I used Math and Software to get into every Fashion House in the world
Friday, 17 June 2016, 11:00AM - Institute for Quantum Computing, QNC 1201
Nina Bindel: -- Towards Practical Lattice-Based Signature Schemes

Also see other Math and CS postings.

10. Lab Cleanup

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