Friday 6th June

Speaker: Professor Alexandre Tsybakov

Title: Gradient-free stochastic optimization

Friday 5th May

Speaker: Lenka Zdeborová is a Professor of Physics and Computer Science at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Title: Understanding neural networks and quantification of their uncertainty via exactly solvable models

Friday 20th May

Speaker: Yurii Nesterov, Universite catholique de louvain

Title: New perspectives for higher-order methods in convex optimisation

Thursday 17th October

Speaker: Elchanan Mossel (MIT Math)

Title: Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation