Events
Upcoming events
The Kempner Institute convenes experts in the fields of natural and artificial intelligence, building community and supporting academic exploration through lectures, workshops and talks by visiting scientists. Our Kempner Seminar Series, organized by the ML Foundations group, is held on Fridays and explores recent advances in the field.
Emmanuel Abbe
Join us for a talk by Emmanuel Abbe, Chair of Mathematical Data Science at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. This is talk is part of the Kempner Seminar Series, a research-level seminar series on recent advances in the field. Talk abstract forthcoming.
Eric Shultz
Join us for a talk by Eric Shultz, Research Group Leader at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics. This is talk is part of the Kempner Seminar Series, a research-level seminar series on recent advances in the field. Talk abstract forthcoming.
Noam Brown
Join us for a talk by Noam Brown, Research Scientist at Meta AI. This is talk is part of the Kempner Seminar Series, a research-level seminar series on recent advances in the field. Talk abstract forthcoming.
Tom Griffiths
Join us for a talk by Tom Griffiths, Director of the Computational Cognitive Science Lab at Princeton University. This is talk is part of the Kempner Seminar Series, a research-level seminar series on recent advances in the field. Talk abstract forthcoming.
Stefano Ermon
Join us for a talk by Stefano Ermon, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. This is talk is part of the Kempner Seminar Series, a research-level seminar series on recent advances in the field. Talk abstract forthcoming.
Kim Stachenfeld
Join us for a talk by Kim Stachenfeld, Senior Research Scientist at Google Deepmind. This is talk is part of the Kempner Seminar Series, a research-level seminar series on recent advances in the field. Talk abstract forthcoming.
Ev Fedorenko
Join us for a talk by Ev Fedorenko, Assistant Professor at MIT and Investigator the McGovern Institute. This is talk is part of the Kempner Seminar Series, a research-level seminar series on recent advances in the field. Talk abstract forthcoming.
Past events
September 15, 2023
Teach language models to reason
Speaker: Denny Zhou
September 8, 2023
Dataset security issues in generative AI
Speaker: Tom Goldstein
May 23, 2023
Towards Machines that can learn, reason and plan
Speaker: Yann LeCun
May 19, 2023
Model-based reinforcement learning and the future of language models
Speaker: Timothy Lillicrap
May 12, 2023
Common Sense: The Dark Matter of Language and Intelligence
Speaker: Yejin Choi
May 3, 2023
Get to Know the Kempner
Speakers: Sham Kakade, Elise Porter, Bernardo Sabatini
April 21, 2023
Shifts in Distributions and Preferences in Learning
Speaker: Jamie Morgenstern
April 14, 2023
Deep Language Models as a Cognative Model for NLP in the Human Brain
Speaker: Uri Hasson
March 31, 2023
First Contact
Speaker: Sebastien Bubeck
March 20, 2023
Interpreting Training
Speaker: Naomi Saphra
March 10, 2023
A Data-Centric View on Reliable Generalization: From ImageNet to LAION-5B
Speaker: Ludwig Schmidt
February 27, 2023
Natural Inductive Biases for Artificial Intelligence
Speaker: Thomas Keller
February 27, 2023
Beyond Bayes: towards new principles of optimality for neuroscience and AI
Speaker: Richard Lange
February 27, 2023
Towards Human-like Deep Reinforcement Learning
Speaker: Willa Carvalho
February 24, 2023
Neural networks make stuff up. What should we do about it?
Speaker: Chelsea Finn
February 10, 2023
Studying Neural Net Generalization through Influence Functions
Speaker: Roger Grosse
February 3, 2023
Data structure and curse of dimensionality in deep learning
Speaker: Matthieu Wyart