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

[Vassilis Tsotras]

Hi everyone, tomorrow's seminar is CANCELLED and will be rescheduled at a
later date.
Apologies for the inconvenience.

Sincerely,
V. Tsotras
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On Thu, Jun 4, 2026 at 6:56 AM Vassilis Tsotras <vassilis.tsotras at ucr.edu>
wrote:

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