Laurence Perreault-Levasseur (Université de Montréal): Schmidt AI in Science Speaker Series

Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Fellowship Program.

Agenda
4:00pm – 4:45pm:  Presentation
4:45pm – 5:00pm:  Q&A
5:00pm – 5:30pm: Reception

Meeting location
William Eckhardt Research Center. Room 401
5640 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
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Bio: Laurence Perreault-Levasseur is an Assistant Professor at the Université de Montréal and an Associate Member of Mila, where she conducts research on the development and application of machine learning methods to cosmology. She is also a visiting scholar at the Flatiron Institute in New York City and the Perimeter Institute in Waterloo. Prior to that, she was a Flatiron Fellow for her postdoctoral studies at the Center for Computational Astrophysics at the Flatiron Institute and a KIPAC Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. Laurence received her PhD from the University of Cambridge in 2015, where she conducted work on applications of open effective field theory to the formalism of inflation. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from McGill University.