2024-25 Distinguished Speaker Series
The University of Chicago Data Science Institute, Department of Statistics, Department of Computer Science, and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics are proud to announce our 2024-25 Distinguished Speaker Series. Join us for stimulating talks from leading data science researchers exploring and expanding the fundamental methods and approaches that transform large and complex datasets into knowledge and action.
Events will take place in the John Crerar Library Building, Room 390, with a lunch social starting at noon before the lecture at 12:30 p.m (unless otherwise noted). This page will be updated with talk details in the coming weeks.
November 8: Maximilian Nickel, Meta FAIR – “Towards Social Foundations of AI”
November 19: Been Kim, Google – 2-3pm – Joint CS Distinguished Lecture Series/DSI Distinguished Speaker Series – “Alignment and interpretability: how we might get it right”
April 11: Margo Seltzer, The University of British Columbia
May 6: Tom Griffiths, Princeton University
May 16: Moshe Vardi, Rice University
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