• Workshop on Geometry, Imaging, and Computing

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    On March 24-26, The Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications will be hosting a workshop on Geometry, Imaging, and Computing, based off  the journal of the same name. The workshop will take place in CMSA building, G10. The organizing committee consists of Yang Wang (HKUST), Ronald Lui (CUHK), David Gu (Stony Brook), and Shing-Tung Yau (Harvard). Confirmed Speakers: Jianfeng Cai (HKUST) Shikui Chen (Stony Brook) Jerome Darbon (Brown University) Laurent Demanet (MIT) David […]

  • A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks

    CMSA 20 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, United States

    Speaker: Andrea Montanari (Stanford) Title: A Mean Field View of the Landscape of Two-Layers Neural Networks Abstract: Multi-layer neural networks are among the most powerful models in machine learning and yet, the fundamental reasons for this success defy mathematical understanding. Learning a neural network requires to optimize a highly non-convex and high-dimensional objective (risk function), a problem which […]