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Hot Topics: Optimal transport and applications to machine learning and statistics
Organizers: Luigi Ambrosio (Scuola Normale Superiore), Francis Bach (École Normale Supérieure), LEAD Katy Craig (University of California, Santa Barbara), Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge), Stefano Soatto (University of California, Los Angeles)Image drawn by Dr. Katy CraigThe goal of the workshop is to explore the many emerging connections between the theory of Optimal Transport and models and algorithms currently used in the Machine Learning community. In particular, the use of Wasserstein metrics and the relation between discrete models and their continuous counterparts will be presented and discussed.
Updated on Oct 24, 2019 02:42 PM PDT -
Hot Topics: Topological Insights in Neuroscience
Organizers: Carina Curto (Pennsylvania State University), Chad Giusti (University of Delaware), LEAD Kathryn Hess (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)), Ran Levi (University of Aberdeen)Image created by Nicolas Antille, of the visualization team of the Blue Brain Project at EPFLThe talks in this workshop will present a wide array of current applications of topology in neuroscience, including classification and synthesis of neuron morphologies, analysis of synaptic plasticity, algebraic analysis of the neural code, topological analysis of neural networks and their dynamics, topological decoding of neural activity, diagnosis of traumatic brain injuries, and topological biomarkers for psychiatric disease. Some of the talks will be devoted to promising new directions in algebraic topology that have been inspired by neuroscience.
Updated on Nov 27, 2019 01:57 PM PST
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