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Bernoulli Symposium afterword

When:Th 01-11-2018
Where:Bernoulliborg Nijenborgh 9, Zernike Campus


On 1 November 2018 the Bernoulli Institute celebrated with an Opening Symposium its establishment as one of the largest at the Faculty of Science and Engineering, combining the unique expertise in mathematics, computer science and artificial intelligence in Groningen. 200 participants from the University of Groningen, Leiden University, Utrecht University, the Osaka University European Center for Academic Initiatives, University of Twente, Eindhoven University of Technology, TNO, NWO, and various companies networked, discussed the posters and interdisciplinary projects of Bernoulli research groups and were fully engaged in four captivating talks by our guests: Dr. Daniel Gebler (Picnic online supermarket, Netherlands), Prof. dr. Mark Roberts (Univ. of Surrey, United Kingdom), Prof. dr. Antal van den Bosch (Radboud University, Meertens Institute, Netherlands) and Prof. dr. Catuscia Palamidessi (INRIA, École Polytechnique, France). We would like to thank you for making this event a success!

More details and photos are available below.  

Programme :

9.00 - 9.30: Registration
9.30-9.45: Welcome by the Department heads
9.45-11.15: Presentations of interdisciplinary projects at the BI
11.15-11.45: Coffee break and poster session
11.45-12.30: Dr. Daniel Gebler, Industry, The next wave of machine learning - from data science to full stack ML platforms, (Picnic online supermarket, Netherlands)

12.30-13.30: Lunch and Poster session

13.30-14.00: Official opening (Rector of the University of Groningen, FSE Dean, Bernoulli Institute Director)

14.00-14.45: Prof. dr. Mark Roberts, Between Mathematics and Science, (University of Surrey, United Kingdom)
14.45-15.15: Coffee break and Poster session
15.15-16.00: Prof. dr. Antal van den Bosch, MC Turing in da house: getting creative with language models, (Radboud University, Meertens Institute, Netherlands)
16.00-16.45: Catuscia Palamidessi, New Trends in Security and Privacy , (INRIA, École Polytechnique, France)
16.45-17.00: Concluding remarks (Director of the BI) and award of the Best Poster awards, followed by drinks

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