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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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Groups and Representation Theory in Lausanne 2024

This workshop will highlight recent work in the structure and representation theory of finite and algebraic groups, and the related Lie algebras.

20-11-202421-11-2024

With: See here: https://groreptil24.epfl.ch/participants/
Place and room: CM 1 517
Category: Conferences – Seminars

GAAG seminar – Levi factors of linear algebraic groups

21-11-202421-11-2024

With: George McNinch (Tufts)
Place and room: CM 1 517
Category: Conferences – Seminars

On potentials whose level sets are orbits

22-11-202422-11-2024

With: Prof. Philippe Bolle (University of Avignon – France)
Place and room: MA B1 11
Category: Conferences – Seminars

Non-Euclidean Learning via Optimization Solvers and Stability

22-11-202422-11-2024

With: Patrick Rebeschini, University of Oxford
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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Mailing Address
Institute of Mathematics
EPFL SB MATH
MA A2 383 (Bâtiment MA) 
Station 8
CH-1015 Lausanne
Switzerland

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