Munich AI Lecture with Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei

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We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Munich AI Lecture featuring renowned researcher Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei hosted by our relAI director Prof. Dr. Gitta Kutyniok, Bavarian AI Chair for Mathematical Foundations of Artificial Intelligence at LMU.

Deep neural networks have led to breakthrough results in numerous practical machine learning tasks. In the lecture “The Mathematical Universe behind Deep Neural Networks,” Prof. Dr. Bölcskei will take us on an exciting journey through the mathematical universe behind these practical successes, elucidating the theoretical underpinnings of deep neural networks in functional analysis, harmonic analysis, complex analysis, approximation theory, dynamical systems, Kolmogorov complexity, optimal transport, fractal geometry, mathematical logic, and automata theory.

Event Details:

 • Speaker: Prof. Dr. Helmut Bölcskei

• Date and Time: November 25th, 2024, 5.15 pm

• Location: Große Aula der LMU (Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Room 120, 80539 München)

Helmut Bölcskei is a Professor of Mathematical Information Science at ETH Zurich and has been a Principal Investigator at the Lagrange Mathematics and Computing Research Center in Paris since 2021. After earning his degrees from Vienna University, he completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Stanford University and has held visiting researcher positions at many leading institutions. In addition to his academic achievements, he is also a successful entrepreneur. Professor Bölcskei has received numerous awards and prestigious fellowships and continues to serve as Editor-in Chief for some of the field's most distinguished journals.

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