Leading trends in AI – a new weekly minisymposium
launches a series of minisymposia on leading trends in Finnish AI research in conjunction with the weekly . The FCAI symposium series will provide an opportunity to catch up with the latest AI research and also for researchers already working on the field a chance to get to know what their colleagues are working on.
The first minisymposium themed Agile probabilistic AI takes place on 26 March at 9 AM in Otaniemi, CS Building, room T6. The symposium includes addresses of Professor Aki Vehtari, Professor Arto Klami and Dr. Henri Vuollekoski discussing recent development of Stan, automated variational inference and likelihood-free inference among others themes. See the abstracts and full program of the symposium: .
The future minisymposia will include sessions on simulator-based inference, privacy-preserving and secure AI as well as on interactive AI.
The FCAI minisymposia are a part of the weekly held jointly by the Aalto University and the University of Helsinki. The seminars aim to gather people from different fields of science with interest in machine learning. Seminars will be held weekly on Mondays. The location alternates between Aalto University and the University of Helsinki.
More information:
Kaisa Pekkala
Coordinator, FCAI
tel. +358 50 3020 921
kaisa.pekkala at aalto.fi
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