Foundations of Data Science
@dsfoundations
Official account for the Foundations of Data Science — Virtual Talk Series, a free monthly online seminar.
📢 Our next talk is coming up! On August 12, 11am PT, Dr. Emily Wenger from @DukeU will tell us about "Reclaiming Data Agency in the Age of Ubiquitous Machine Learning". Details and link: sites.google.com/view/dstheory
TCS4All Inspiration talk written by Luca Trevisan starts at 12:30 pm Pacific. Youtube live link: youtube.com/live/FdP_n_x0a…
Next THIS WEEK in our "Theory of Large ML Models" series: on Wed, May 15 at 2pm PT, Mikhail Belkin (@UCSanDiego) will tell us about “The puzzle of dimensionality and feature learning in neural networks and kernel machines.” Details: sites.google.com/view/dstheory
Nominations are open for Rising Star Talks at the TCS for All Spotlight Workshop Applications are open for travel scholarships to STOC 2024 For further information, please see sigact.org/tcsforall/ Deadline for both is April 28, 2024.
The second talk of 2024 in our "Theory of Large ML Models" series will be by @AlexGDimakis (@UTAustin)! On Monday, Apr 1st at 2pm PT, Alex will tell us about “Deep Generative models and Inverse problems for Signal Reconstruction.” Free registration: sites.google.com/view/dstheory

This is on Monday! Register at docs.google.com/forms/d/1kYW_q…
Happy New Year! We're back, w/ our first talk of the year by Sasha Rush (@srush_nlp) from @Cornell in our "Theory of Large ML Models" series. On Monday Feb 5 at 2pm PT, Sasha will tell us about "Scaling Data-Constrained Language Model" Free registration: sites.google.com/view/dstheory
This is on Monday! Abstract and Zoom details: dstheory.wordpress.com/2024/01/29/mon…
Happy New Year! We're back, w/ our first talk of the year by Sasha Rush (@srush_nlp) from @Cornell in our "Theory of Large ML Models" series. On Monday Feb 5 at 2pm PT, Sasha will tell us about "Scaling Data-Constrained Language Model" Free registration: sites.google.com/view/dstheory
Happy New Year! We're back, w/ our first talk of the year by Sasha Rush (@srush_nlp) from @Cornell in our "Theory of Large ML Models" series. On Monday Feb 5 at 2pm PT, Sasha will tell us about "Scaling Data-Constrained Language Model" Free registration: sites.google.com/view/dstheory

This is this week! Register at sites.google.com/view/dstheory to attend @boazbaraktcs's talk on "The Uneasy Relation Between Deep Learning and Statistics"!
📢 Our next talk on the "Theory of Large ML Models" will be on Monday, Oct 30, 1pm PT. Boaz Barak (@boazbaraktcs) from @Harvard will tell us about "The Uneasy Relation Between Deep Learning and Statistics". Free registration: sites.google.com/view/dstheory
Finally a Tweet that is not about thoroughly depressing world affairs. Excited to give this online talk on Monday 1pm pacific, 4pm eastern
📢 Our next talk on the "Theory of Large ML Models" will be on Monday, Oct 30, 1pm PT. Boaz Barak (@boazbaraktcs) from @Harvard will tell us about "The Uneasy Relation Between Deep Learning and Statistics". Free registration: sites.google.com/view/dstheory
📢 Our next talk on the "Theory of Large ML Models" will be on Monday, Oct 30, 1pm PT. Boaz Barak (@boazbaraktcs) from @Harvard will tell us about "The Uneasy Relation Between Deep Learning and Statistics". Free registration: sites.google.com/view/dstheory

Multiple postdoc positions available at the EnCORE Institute in all areas of theoretical foundations of data science. Apply by Jan 1st 2024 encore.ucsd.edu/job-opportunit… to work with EnCORE PIs @Aaroth @HamedSHassani @pappasg69 @gmishne @kamalikac @MountainOfMoon @B1ar2n3a and others
📢 Tuesday, Sept 5th, 11:30am PT! @EnCOREInstitut presents an (online) panel on "Reliability of Large Language Models", ft. Marzyeh Ghassemi (@MIT), James Zou (@Stanford), Ernest Davis (@nyuniversity), and Nisheeth Vishnoi (@Yale) Free registration: 📋 sites.google.com/view/dstheory