International experts explore the relation between mathematics and machine learning at the UAB
For the third consecutive year, the UAB Department of Mathematics will be holding an online colloquium series entitled "Barcelona Mathematics and Machine Learning", with the participation of speakers experts in the field focusing on the relationship between mathematics and machine learning. The first session will take place on 27 March and will include the participation of American mathematician Kristin Lauter, director of Meta AI Research (FAIR) in Seattle.
On Thursday 27 March at 5:00 p.m. a new edition of the online "Barcelona Mathematics and Machine Learning Colloquium Series", organised by the Department of Mathematics of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, will take place. The speaker will be American mathematician Kristin Lauter, director of Meta AI Research (FAIR) in Seattle. Lauter, who holds a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Chicago, incorporated at a young age the power of computers into her research into cryptography, which led her to work for 22 years at Microsoft Research, where she was a Partner Research Manager. She was also awarded the 2008 Selfridge Prize in Computational Number THeory and is member of several prestigious organisations, including the American Mathematical Society and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
Kristin Lauter will give a lecture entitled “Artificial intelligence & cryptography: privacy and security in the age of AI”. She will explain how artificial intelligence (AI) is changing our lives and the world, and whether we can expect our data to remain secure and private in the future. More specifically, she will talk about post-quantum cryptosystems and describe how AI can be used to attack them.
The Department of Mathematics of the UAB offers these conferences with the aim of presenting the relationship between mathematics and machine learning, as well as the latest developments, to a general audience of mathematicians, computer scientists and students interested in this field. The two questions guiding the series are: What are the mathematics behind machine learning? and What can machine learning do for mathematicians? Speakers in previous editions included Laurent Lafforgue and Shing-Tung Yau, winners of the Fields Medal, the highest award in mathematics on a par with the Nobel Prize.
The next conference will be on 8 May and will be given by Geordie Williamson, director of the Mathematical Research Institute in Sydney, Australia, professor at the University of Sydney, and author of the first paper in Nature on how to advance mathematics by guiding human intuition with artificial intelligence. Among the awards Williamson has received are the Clay (2016) and New Horizons (2017) prizes.
The series is open to the general public, given that the colloquia can be very inspiring despite the high level of mathematics they entail. To attend please sign up at the following website: https://mat.uab.cat/bM2L. All conferences are also recorded and publidhed in the Department of Mathematics YouTube channel.
For more information and registration please visit:
https://mat.uab.cat/bM2L
https://www.youtube.com/@departamentmatematiquesuab121
More information on Kristin Lauter:
https://ai.meta.com/people/786716476205590/kristin-e-lauter/