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Nomination of Professor Mats Julius Stensrud

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The Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology has announced the appointment of Professor Mats Julius Stensrud as Associate Professor of Statistics in the School of Basic Sciences (SB)

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Emmanuel Abbé receives Frontier of Science Award

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EPFL Professor Emmanuel Abbé has been honored with the 2024 Frontier of Science Award for his pioneering work on principal component analysis and spectral clustering.

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Large Language Models feel the direction of time

Research

Researchers have found that AI large language models, like GPT-4, are better at predicting what comes next than what came before in a sentence. This “Arrow of Time” effect could reshape our understanding of the structure of natural language, and the way these models understand it.

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An Invitation to shape uncertainty quantification in Computational Electromagnetics

Computational Mathematics Seminar Abstract : In this talk, we will consider solving time-harmonic electromagnetic wave scattering problems when the actual domains are not fully known but can be modeled as random…

05-11-202405-11-2024

With: Prof. Carlos Jerez – Universidad Adolfo Ibanez
Place and room: CM 1 517
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Cohomological integrality for symmetric quotient stacks

06-11-202406-11-2024

With: Lucien Hennecart (Edinburgh University)
Place and room: CM 1 517
Category: Conferences – Seminars

A curious phenomenon in wave turbulence theory

08-11-202408-11-2024

With: Prof. Gigliola Staffilani – Massachusetts Institue of Technology –  USA
Place and room: MA B1 11
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Debiasing Welch's Method for Spectral Density Estimation

08-11-202408-11-2024

With: Adam Sykulski, Imperial College London
Place and room: CM 1 517
Category: Conferences – Seminars

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Contact

Director
Prof. Maryna Viazovska
Office: MA B3 444
Tel: +41 (0)21 69 30033
E-mail: [email protected]
 
Secretary
Office: MA A2 383
Tel: +41 (0)21 69 32395
 
Secretary
Carole Weissenberger
Office: MA A2 383
Tel: +41 (0)21 69 37648
 

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Institute of Mathematics
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MA A2 383 (Bâtiment MA) 
Station 8
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

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