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2024: The Mathematics of Machine Learning – Prof Qianxiao Li
Speaker Qianxiao Li is an assistant professor in the Department of Mathematics, and a principal investigator in the Institute for Functional Intelligent Materials, National University of Singapore. He graduated with a BA in mathematics from the University of Cambridge and a PhD in applied mathematics from Princeton University. His research interests include the interplay of machine learning and dynamical systems, control theory, stochastic optimisation algorithms and data-driven methods for science and engineering. Abstract In this talk we discuss some mathematical aspects of machine learning, and how they can be traced back to very old problems in mathematics, such as representing…
Past Years’ Programme
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2023: Mathematics of Dynamic Processes: Forecasting the Future
Audience General (Suitable for students at Secondary Level and above) Description This lecture series will feature eminent local mathematicians or…
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2022: SMS lecture series 2022: What is a generalized function?
Speaker: Zhu Chengbo, National University of Singapore
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2021: Mathematical Models and Epidemics
Speaker: Professor Alex Cook, NUS
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2019: Turning Uncertainty into Certainty
Speaker: Professor Nicolas Privault, Nanyang Technological University
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2018: You don’t have to buy Bitcoin. You can mine it.
Speaker: Kiah Han Mao, Nanyang Technological University
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2017: Deep Learning
Speaker: Adrian Roellin, National University of Singapore
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2016: An Introduction to Algorithmic Game Theory
Speaker: Chen Ning, Nanyang Technological University
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2015: Mathematics, Computation and Science
Speaker: Tay Yong Chiang, National University of Singapore
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2014: Mathematics of Money
Speaker: Steven Kou, National University of Singapore
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2013: Topology, Geometry, and Nuclear Physics
Speaker: Brett McInnes, National University of Singapore
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2012: The Foundational Role of Statistics in the Future of Medicine
Speaker: Teo Yik Ying, National University of Singapore
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2011: Domination in Digraphs
Speaker: Koh Khee Meng, National University of Singapore
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2010: Modeling Large Societies
Speaker: Sun Yeneng, National University of Singapore
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2009: A New Twist for Braids
Speaker: A J (Jon) Berrick , National University of Singapore
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2008: Mathematics and Reality
Speaker: Chong Chi Tat, National University of Singapore
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2007: Rare Events – The Poisson Paradigm (Inaugural lecture)
Speaker: Centennial Professor Louis Chen, National University of Singapore
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