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

[tsotras at cs.ucr.edu]

Dear DS majors,
first, best wishes for a happy and healthy New Year!

Below is information about the next Data Science Seminar this coming
Friday. It is on a very popular subject these days (generative AI models
and tools) and is given by one of our new Data Science faculty, Prof. Ver
Steeg.

If you plan to attend please register with the link below.

best,
V. Tsotras



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Subject: [UCR_DataScience] Data Science talk by Prof. Greg Ver Steeg,
Friday January 13th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room
From:    "Vassilis Tsotras" <tsotras at cs.ucr.edu>
Date:    Mon, January 9, 2023 1:38 pm
To:      datascience at lists.ucr.edu
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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
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