Past Events
TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Kinetic Theory Perspective of Foundation Models for Physics
February 11 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS-MICS Seminar: AI-Driven Design Automation for Multi-Chip Integration in AI Chips
February 9 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Extended Convex Lifting for Policy Optimization in Control
February 6 @ 11:00 - 12:00
[CANCELED] Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Fantastic Pretraining Optimizers and Where to Find Them
January 30 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Safety, Representations, and Generative Learning in Dynamical Systems
January 28 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Gordon Research Conference on Embodied Intelligence
January 11 - January 16
Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Randomized linear algebra with subspace injections
January 9 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Incentivizing Emergent Behaviors for LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
December 8, 2025 @ 10:00 - 11:00
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on New Perspectives in Advancing Graph Machine Learning
December 7, 2025
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Imageomics: Discovering Biological Knowledge from Images Using AI
December 6, 2025
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning
December 6, 2025
NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Differentiable Learning of Combinatorial Algorithms
December 6, 2025
Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Stochastic-Gradient and Diagonal-Scaling Algorithms for Constrained Optimization and Learning
December 5, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Networking Lunch Reception at NeurIPS 2025
December 4, 2025 @ 12:00 - 14:00
Optimization for AI and ML Seminar: Training Neural Networks at Any Scale
December 3, 2025 @ 13:00 - 14:00
TILOS-SDSU Seminar: 95 Percent: Bridging the Gap Between Prototype and Product
December 3, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Workshop on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Data Science (co-located with NeurIPS 2025)
December 1, 2025 - December 2, 2025
TILOS-SDSU Seminar: Certifiably Correct Machine Perception
November 19, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS-HDSI Seminar: AI safety theory: the missing middle ground
November 12, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Student and Postdoc Lunch at Zanzibar Cafe
October 24, 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:30
Optimization for ML and AI Seminar with Courtney Paquette (McGill University): High-dimensional Optimization with Applications to Compute-Optimal Neural Scaling Laws
October 24, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS-HDSI Seminar with Adam Klivans (UT Austin): A New Paradigm for Learning with Distribution Shift
October 1, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Industry Day 2025
June 2, 2025
TILOS Seminar: Optimal Quantization for LLMs and Matrix Multiplication
May 23, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
HOT-AI: Horizons for Optimization in AI Workshop
April 17, 2025 - April 18, 2025
TILOS Seminar: Amplifying human performance in combinatorial competitive programming
April 16, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Seminar: Foundational Methods for Foundation Models for Scientific Machine Learning
April 2, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Boston Symmetry Day 2025
March 31, 2025
TILOS Seminar: Single location regression and attention-based models
March 27, 2025 @ 14:00 - 15:00
TILOS-Cisco AI + Security Workshop
March 17, 2025
TILOS Seminar: Synthetic Tasks as Testbeds for Attributing Model Behavior
March 12, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Tutorial on AI Alignment
March 6, 2025 @ 08:30 - 12:15
Secure AI for Health, Defense, and Beyond
February 19, 2025 - February 20, 2025
TILOS-SDSU Seminar: Challenging Estimation Problems in Vehicle Autonomy
February 12, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Seminar: Unlearnable Facts Cause Hallucinations in Pretrained Language Models
January 29, 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:30
NSF Workshop on AI for Electronic Design Automation
December 10, 2024
TILOS Seminar: How Transformers Learn Causal Structure with Gradient Descent
November 20, 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Seminar: Off-the-shelf Algorithmic Stability
November 13, 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Seminar: Data Models for Deep Learning: Beyond i.i.d. Assumptions
November 7, 2024 @ 16:00 - 17:00
TILOS-SDSU Seminar: AI/ML & NLP for UAS/Air Traffic Management
October 2, 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Seminar: What Kinds of Functions do Neural Networks Learn? Theory and Practical Applications
July 24, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Industry Day 2024
June 18, 2024
TILOS Seminar: Large Datasets and Models for Robots in the Real World
May 22, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Transformers learn in-context by (functional) gradient descent
April 17, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: How Large Models of Language and Vision Help Agents to Learn to Behave
March 20, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00
HDSI-TILOS “LLM Meets Theory” Workshop 2024
March 15, 2024 - March 16, 2024
AI Ethics in Research Webinar
March 8, 2024 @ 12:00 - 13:00
TILOS-HDSI Distinguished Colloquium: The Synergy between Machine Learning and the Natural Sciences
February 21, 2024 @ 14:00 - 15:30
TILOS Seminar: The Dissimilarity Dimension: Sharper Bounds for Optimistic Algorithms
January 18, 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00
Overview of the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
November 17, 2023 @ 09:30 - 10:30
TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Optimization, Robustness and Privacy in Deep Neural Networks: Insights from the Neural Tangent Kernel
November 8, 2023 @ 11:00 - 12:00
Boston Symmetry Day 2023
November 3, 2023
TILOS Seminar: Building Personalized Decision Models with Federated Human Preferences
November 2, 2023 @ 11:00 - 12:00
TILOS Seminar: Towards Foundation Models for Graph Reasoning and AI 4 Science
October 11, 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Fireside Chat on Theory in the Age of Modern AI
October 4, 2023 @ 09:30 - 10:30
TILOS Seminar: Machine Learning from Weak, Noisy, and Biased Supervision
September 18, 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00
AI Ethics Roundtable
June 2, 2023 @ 09:00 - 10:00
TILOS Seminar: Learning from Diverse and Small Data
May 19, 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: The Hidden Convex Optimization Landscape of Deep Neural Networks
May 15, 2023 @ 14:30 - 15:30
TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Sums of Squares: from Algebra to Analysis
April 26, 2023 @ 09:00 - 10:00
TILOS Seminar: ML Training Strategies Inspired by Humans’ Learning Skills
April 19, 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Engineering the Future of Software with AI
February 15, 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Causal Discovery for Root Cause Analysis
January 18, 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Rare Gems: Finding Lottery Tickets at Initialization
November 16, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Robust and Equitable Uncertainty Estimation
October 12, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: On Policy Optimization Methods for Control
September 28, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Non-convex Optimization for Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control
September 21, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Machine Learning for Design Methodology and EDA Optimization
August 17, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: How to use Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization? Research Directions and Case Studies
July 20, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: The FPGA Physical Design Flow Through the Eyes of ML
June 29, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Reasoning Numerically
June 15, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Deep Generative Models and Inverse Problems
May 18, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Constant Regret in Online Decision-Making
May 11, 2022 @ 14:30 - 15:30
TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Equilibrium Computation, Deep Multi-Agent Learning, and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
April 27, 2022 @ 14:30 - 15:30
TILOS Seminar: Learning in the Presence of Distribution Shifts: How does the Geometry of Perturbations Play a Role?
April 20, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: The Connections Between Discrete Geometric Mechanics, Information Geometry, Accelerated Optimization and Machine Learning
March 16, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: MCMC vs. Variational Inference for Credible Learning and Decision Making at Scale
February 16, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Real-time Sampling and Estimation: From IoT Markov Processes to Disease Spread Processes
January 19, 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: Closing the Virtuous Cycle of AI for IC and IC for AI
December 15, 2021 @ 10:00 - 11:00
TILOS Seminar: A Mixture of Past, Present, and Future
November 17, 2021 @ 10:00 - 11:00