We are happy to invite you to the upcoming Munich AI Lecture featuring two distinguished researchers Prof. Holger Hoos from RWTH Aachen University and Prof. Franca Hoffmann from California Institute of Technology. The lecture is organized by the Chair of Mathematics of Information Processing with support by MCML.
In the first talk, “Dynamics of Strategic Agents and Algorithms as PDEs“, Prof. Hoffmann will speak about dynamics of interactions between algorithms and a population.
In the second talk, “Learning, reasoning and optimisation: Adversarial robustness of neural networks”, Prof. Hoos will discuss robustness of neural networks and its verification.
Event Details:
- Speakers: Prof. Dr. Holger Hoos and Prof. Dr. Franca Hoffmann
- Date and Time: December 17, 2024, 16:00 CET (16:00-17:00 talk by Prof. Hoffmann and 17:30-18:30 talk by Prof. Hoos – We will have a small break with coffee/tea and snacks in between)
- Location: Senatssaal, LMU Munich, Geschwister-Scholl-Platz 1, Munich
Bio Franca Hoffmann
Franca Hoffmann obtained her master’s in mathematics from Imperial College London (UK) and holds a PhD from the Cambridge Centre for Analysis at University of Cambridge (UK). She held the position of von Kármán instructor at Caltech from 2017 to 2020, then joined University of Bonn (Germany) as Bonn Junior Professor and Quantum Leap Africa in Kigali, Rwanda (African Institute for Mathematical Sciences) as AIMS-Carnegie ResearchChair in Data Science, before arriving at the California Institute of Technology as Assistant Professor in 2022.
Bio Holger Hoos
Holger H. Hoos holds an Alexander von Humboldt professorship in AI at RWTH Aachen University (Germany), where he also leads the AI Center, as well as a professorship in machine learning at Universiteit Leiden (the Netherlands) and an adjunct professorship in computer science at the University of British Columbia (Canada). He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) and the European AI Association (EurAI), past president of the Canadian Association for Artificial Intelligence, former editor-in-chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR) and chair of the board of CLAIRE, an organization that seeks to strengthen European excellence in AI research and innovation (claire-ai.org).
relAI is a co-organiser of the Munich AI lectures. Find more info on these other upcoming events on the Munich AI lectures home page.
