Conférences
Journée Georges de Rham 2025
14 May | 15:00 - 18:00 Uni Dufour, U300
SPEAKERS
Ronald Coifman
(Applied Mathematics and Electrical Engineering departments. Yale University)
An outstanding mathematician and one of the leading experts in wavelet theory, Ronald Coifman has received several distinguished awards, including the U.S. National Medal of Science (1999), Rolf Schock Prize in Mathematics (2018), and the George David Birkhoff Prize in Applied Mathematics (2024).
MATHEMATICAL ORCHESTRATIONS: Revealing and encoding hidden structures in empirical data (sensory or data streams)
Our goal is to explain a methodology for sorting, organizing and assembling garbled data ,. Think of of an orchestra recording, which needs to be decomposed into the scores of the various instruments Or more the more challenging task of modeling a recording of neuronal fluctuations that needs to be separated into the scores of different activity units. . We will demonstrate and explain a few organizational methods to sort and unscramble data ,derive latent dynamic variables, and build a data derived optimized structural vocabulary analogous to a musical score.
Terrence Sejnowski
(Salk Institute & UC San Diego)
A leading neuroscientist and pioneer in artificial intelligence, Terrence Sejnowski has been recognized with numerous prestigious honors, including the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience (2015), the Gruber Neuroscience Prize (2022), and the Brain Prize (2024).
BRAINS AND AI
The introduction of ChatGPT in 2023 was a watershed moment for brain-inspired AI. It was as if a space alien suddenly appeared that could communicate with us eerily humanly, talking with us in perfectly formed English sentences. Only one thing is clear—ChatGPT is not human, even though LLMs are already superhuman in their ability to extract information from the world’s vast database of text. We are on an adventure that is taking us to terra incognita. This lecture will explore the origins of modern AI and the many questions that it has raised: Does ChatGPT truly understand what it is saying? Why does ChatGPT hallucinate? What impact will ChatGPT and its successors have on jobs? Should we be worried that AI may someday become superintelligent?
PROGRAM
15:00-15:50 Ronald Coifman
15:50-16:20 Coffee Break
16:20-17:10 Terrence Sejnowski
17:20-17:50 Discussion
18:00-19:15 Aperitif
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