[AI Seminar Series] REMINDER: Seminar by Prof. Thomas Bury, Friday June 5th, 12-1pm, MRB Seminar Room

[Vassilis Tsotras]

Reminder about the AI-seminar tomorrow (last for this quarter) in MRB at
noon.
Please register below if you plan to attend.

V.Tsotras
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On Sun, May 31, 2026 at 1:32 PM Vassilis Tsotras <vassilis.tsotras at ucr.edu>
wrote:

> The next AI Seminar (last for this quarter) will be on Friday June 5th,
> 12-1pm, in 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/ai-seminar-series-tickets-1990736274787
>
> The talk will be given by *Prof. Thomas Bury*, Department of Mathematics,
> UCR
>
> TITLE: Deep learning for early warning signals of tipping points
>
> ABSTRACT:
> Tipping points - abrupt, qualitative changes in the state of a dynamical
> system - can occur in systems ranging from the Earth’s climate to the human
> heart, often with dire consequences. An abundance of research has focused
> on developing early warning signals for tipping points based on generic
> properties of dynamical bifurcations, such as critical slowing down. In our
> work, we trained a deep learning classifier to predict tipping points using
> a massive library of randomly generated dynamical systems. I will show how
> the classifier generalizes to real ecological and cardiac systems,
> achieving higher accuracy than conventional indicators. Finally, I will
> present recent work using reinforcement learning to discover triggers for
> cardiac arrhythmia by interacting with a mathematical model of cardiac
> tissue. This talk will highlight the potential of combining deep learning
> with dynamical models to better understand and predict critical transitions
> in complex natural systems.
>
> Bio
> Dr. Thomas Bury is an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at the University
> of California, Riverside whose research sits at the intersection of
> nonlinear dynamics, machine learning, and the natural sciences. His current
> focus is on developing mathematical and computational methods to better
> understand and predict cardiac arrhythmia. Dr. Bury received his PhD in
> Applied Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and completed a
> postdoctoral fellowship at McGill University. His work has been published
> in leading journals, including PNAS and Nature Communications.
>
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> Sponsored by the RAISE at UCR Institute, the AI Seminar Series presents
> speakers working on cutting edge Foundational AI or applying AI in their
> research. The goal of these seminars is to inform the UCR community about
> current trends in AI research and promote collaborations between faculty
> in this emerging field. These seminars are open to interested faculty and
> graduate/undergraduate students. Please forward this email to other
> colleagues or students in your lab that may be interested. After the
> seminar a discussion will follow for questions, open problems, ideas for
> possible collaborations etc.
>
> Sincerely,
> Vassilis Tsotras
> Professor, CSE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
> Amit Roy-Chowdhury
> Professor, ECE Department
> co-Director, RAISE at UCR Institute
>
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