[UCR_DataScience] REMINDER: Data Science talk by Prof. Greg Ver Steeg, tomorrow Friday January 13th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[tsotras at cs.ucr.edu]

Reminder about the Data Science Seminar by Prof. Greg Ver Steeg, tomorrow
Friday at noon.

Please register using the link below if you plan to attend.

Sincerely,
V. Tsotras

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> The first Data Science seminar for 2023 will be this Friday, January
> 13th, 12:00-1:00pm at the MRB Seminar Room (1st floor).
>
> **** Pizza and refreshments will be provided ****
>
> To keep track of the number of attendees, please *register* at:
> https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-talk-tickets-511073503607
>
>
> The talk will be given by *Prof. Greg Ver Steeg*, Department of Computer
> Science and Engineering, UCR
>
> *Title:*
> The Age of Creative AI ?
>
> *Abstract:*
> Generative models have made significant advances in recent years,
> sparking an explosion of new applications with far-reaching societal
> implications. I will discuss the mathematical intuition behind diffusion
> models, the core technology behind recent art generation tools like
> DALL-E-2, Imagen, Stable Diffusion, Dreambooth, Lensa, and others. These
> applications introduce new technical challenges both for computational
> scalability and for controlling outputs to align results with users’
> goals and ethical constraints. I will conclude by discussing an
> information-theoretic formulation of diffusion models that can be used
> to address these problems.
>
>
>
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> Sponsored by the UCR Data Science Center, the purpose of the Data
> Science Seminars is to foster collaborations between "core" Data Science
> faculty (from CSE/ECE/Stat Departments) and faculty/visitors from other
> sciences that face Data Science problems in their research. These
> informal gatherings are open to interested faculty and graduate
> students. Each meeting will start with a talk describing research
> problems and then a discussion will follow for questions, open problems,
> ideas for possible collaborations etc.
>
> A full list of previous seminars appears at:
> http://datascience.ucr.edu/seminars
>
> Please forward this email to other colleagues or graduate students in
> your lab that may be interested. Moreover, if you are interested in
> giving a Data Science related talk, please contact me
> (tsotras at cs.ucr.edu).
>
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> Director, Data Science Major