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📣 Join us on November 14 for a talk by Dr. Katerina Papagiannouli on 'Low-Rank Parametrized Transformers and Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics'.

📅 12:30 - 13:30

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Low-Rank Parametrized Transformers and Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics

Speaker: Dr. Katerina Papagiannouli Abstract: In this talk, we will characterise the gradient flow dynamics of an almost-linear low-rank parametrized transformer trained for regression in the limit of...

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November 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM

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📣 Join us on November 13 for a talk by Helena A. Haxvig, on 'Reprogramming Bias: Exploring Gender Representation and Inclusive Design Through AI-Generated Synthetic Personas'.

📅 14:30 - 15:30

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Low-Rank Parametrized Transformers and Saddle-to-Saddle Dynamics

Speaker: Dr. Katerina Papagiannouli Abstract: In this talk, we will characterise the gradient flow dynamics of an almost-linear low-rank parametrized transformer trained for regression in the limit of...

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November 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM

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📣 Join us on November 6 for a talk by Dr. Paul Rognon-Vael on 'Improving variable selection properties with transfer learning and data integration'.

📅 12:15 – 14:45

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On the theory of spline interpolation of values and derivatives

Speaker: Michael Floater, University of Oslo Abstract: There is a remarkable and important result in univariate spline theory: spline interpolation over a sequence of points has a unique solution if a...

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October 16, 2025 at 7:09 AM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Taimoor Tariq on "Decoding Perceptual Realism for Real-Time Virtual and Augmented Realities"

📅 Tuesday 28.10 at 15:00
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Approximating Packing Problems

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Antoine Tinguely on Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 10:00 in room D2.19. Abstract: Many optimization problems are NP-hard, meaning that...

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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Antoine Tinguely on "Approximating Packing Problems"

📅 Wednesday 22.10 at 10:00
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Approximating Packing Problems

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Antoine Tinguely on Wednesday 22 October 2025 at 10:00 in room D2.19. Abstract: Many optimization problems are NP-hard, meaning that...

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October 16, 2025 at 6:59 AM

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🏆Congratulations to Andrea Esposito, joint winner of @usi.ch's 2025 Award for Scientific Contributions on Topics of #Equality & #Diversity for his Master's thesis "UI for cognitive accessibility: From redesign to evaluation"

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Premio per contributi scientifici su tematiche di parità e diversità 2025

Il Premio per contributi scientifici su tematiche di parità e diversità 2025 dell’USI, del valore di 2'000 franchi ciascuno, è stato assegnato ex aequo ad Andrea Esposito e Daniela Baiardi per le risp...

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October 3, 2025 at 8:50 AM

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📣 We are #hiring a tenure-track Assistant #Professor in Theoretical Data Science and Machine Learning - find out more and #apply now!
👉https://content.usi.ch/sites/default/files/storage/attachments/inf/inf-assistant-professor-dsml-2025.pdf

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October 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM

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📣 Join us on October 3 for a talk by Marcel Neugebauer, on 'Scalable Bayesian Optimization via Online Gaussian Processes'.

📅 11:00 - 12:00

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Scalable Bayesian Optimization via Online Gaussian Processes

Speaker: Marcel Neugebauer, University of Cologne Abstract: Bayesian optimization is a state-of-the-art method for optimizing black box functions. It typically assumes that the unknown function is a s...

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September 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM

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📣 Join us on September 25 for a talk by Marco Raglianti on 'Dataset Not Anonymized, Reject. A Personal Account of Ethics, Privacy, and Anonymization Issues in SE Research '.

📅 16:30 - 17:30

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Dataset Not Anonymized, Reject. A Personal Account of Ethics, Privacy, and Anonymization Issues in SE Research

Speaker: Marco Raglianti, Università della Svizzera italiana Abstract: Research in software engineering puts many ethical roadblocks (or at least checkpoints) on our path when it comes to performing e...

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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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📣 Join us on September 25 for a talk by Lucas Slot on 'The computational complexity of convex polynomial optimization '.

📅 15:30 - 16:30

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The computational complexity of convex polynomial optimization

Speaker: Lucas Slot, ETH Zurich Abstract: We consider the computational complexity of minimizing a convex polynomial over Rⁿ, or over a convex polyhedron. While this problem appears amenable to standa...

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September 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM

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📣 Join us on September 26 for a talk by Michael Floater on 'On the theory of spline interpolation of values and derivatives'.

📅 15:30 - 16:30

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inf.usi.ch/en/node/11293

On the theory of spline interpolation of values and derivatives

Speaker: Michael Floater, University of Oslo Abstract: There is a remarkable and important result in univariate spline theory: spline interpolation over a sequence of points has a unique solution if a...

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September 18, 2025 at 7:33 AM

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📣 Join us on September 17 for a talk by Yvonne-Anne Pignolet on 'Beyond the Cloud: Decentralization with the Internet Computer Protocol'.

📅 14:00 - 15:00

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Beyond the Cloud: Decentralization with the Internet Computer Protocol

Speaker: Yvonne-Anne Pignolet, Dr., director of research at Dfinity Abstract: The modern internet has become dependent on a handful of centralized cloud providers, creating challenges from platform ri...

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September 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Qingjun Chang on "Generalized Barycentric Interpolation for Arbitrary Domains"

📅 Thursday 25.09 at 14:00
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inf.usi.ch/it/feeds/11290

Generalized Barycentric Interpolation for Arbitrary Domains

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Qingjun Chang on Thursday 25 September 2025 at 14:00 in room D1.13. Abstract: Generalized barycentric coordinates are widely used in...

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September 11, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Anand Gopalakrishnan on "Towards Human-like Perception with Connectionist Models"

📅 Monday 22.09.25 - 17:30
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Towards Human-like Perception with Connectionist Models

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Anand Gopalakrishnan on Monday 22 September 2025 at 17:30 in room D0.02. Abstract: The last decade has seen rapid progress in Artifi...

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September 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM

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📣 Join us on September 4 for a talk by Horacio Tettamanti on 'Kinetic Methods for Consensus-Based Segmentation'.

📅 15:30 - 16:30

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Kinetic Methods for Consensus-Based Segmentation

Speaker: Horacio Tettamanti, Department of Mathematics, University of Pavia, Italy Abstract: Image Segmentation is a fundamental task in the context of image processing and computer vision that consis...

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September 2, 2025 at 12:48 PM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Andriamahenina Ramanantoanina on "Shape control tools for curve and surface design"

📅 Wednesday 10.09.25 - 14:30
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Shape control tools for curve and surface design

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Andriamahenina Ramanantoanina on Wednesday 10 September 2025 at 14:30 in room D0.03. Abstract: Bézier curves are widely used in geom...

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September 1, 2025 at 10:30 AM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Matteo Basso on "Compiler-Intermediate-Representation-Level Pro?ling to Analyze and Perform Compiler Optimizations"

📅 Wednesday 23.07 - 15:30
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Compiler-Intermediate-Representation-Level Pro?ling to Analyze and Perform Compiler Optimizations

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Matteo Basso on Wednesday 23 July 2025 at 15:30 in room D0.02. Abstract: Managed language runtime systems often improve runtime perf...

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July 11, 2025 at 8:09 AM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Haiyang Sun on "Practical Dynamic Program Analysis for Node.js - The NodeProf Framework and its Applications"

📅 Tuesday 22.07 - 15:30
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Practical Dynamic Program Analysis for Node.js - The NodeProf Framework and its Applications

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Haiyang Sun on Tuesday 22 July 2025 at 15:30 in room D0.02. Abstract: Node.js is an asynchronous, event-driven JavaScript runtime th...

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July 10, 2025 at 10:44 AM

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📣 Join us on July 22 for a talk by Andreas Krall on 'OpenVADL: An Open Source Implementation of the Vienna Architecture Description Language'.

📅 11:30 - 13:00

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OpenVADL: An Open Source Implementation of the Vienna Architecture Description Language

Speaker: Andreas Krall, TU Wien Abstract: OpenVADL is an open source implementation of the Vienna Architecture Description Language (VADL). VADL is a processor description language (PDL) that enables ...

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July 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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📣 Join us on July 07 for a talk by Rosanna Campagna on 'Recent trends on HP-splines: from signals processing to Neural-networks for parameter estimation'.

📅 15:30 - 16:30

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Recent trends on HP-splines: from signals processing to Neural-networks for parameter estimation

Speaker: Rosanna Campagna, University of Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli" Abstract: Hyperbolic-Polynomial Penalized splines (HP-splines), recently defined [1] to deal with data regression, are suitably des...

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July 2, 2025 at 12:52 PM

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📣 You are invited to attend the #DissertationDefence of Matías Laporte on "Towards physiologically-driven human memory augmentation"

📅 Friday 13:00
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Towards physiologically-driven human memory augmentation

You are cordially invited to attend the PhD Dissertation Defence of Matías Laporte on Friday 4 July 2025 at 13:00 in room D0.02. Abstract: Despite technological advances in lifelogging devices—capturi...

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June 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM

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📣 Join us on June 13 for a talk by Lenka Mareková on 'Cryptographic analysis of messaging protocols: a spotlight on Telegram'.

📅 08:45 - 09:30

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Cryptographic analysis of messaging protocols: a spotlight on Telegram

Speaker: Lenka Mareková, ETH Zurich Abstract:Telegram has grown from a niche messaging application favoured by users in fairly specific contexts to a widely popular platform and the subject of major n...

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June 10, 2025 at 8:11 AM

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📣 Join us on June 12 for a talk by Chen-Da Liu-Zhang on 'Distributed Cryptography as a Service'.

📅 16:00 - 16:45

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Distributed Cryptography as a Service

Speaker: Chen-Da Liu-Zhang, Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts Abstract: The Internet has played a pivotal role in the creation and growth of distributed systems. Today, rapid technologic...

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June 6, 2025 at 12:02 PM

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📣 Join us on June 12 for a talk by Varun Maram on 'Analyzing Post-Quantum Cryptographic Primitives In The Real World'.

📅 13:45 - 14:30

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Analyzing Post-Quantum Cryptographic Primitives In The Real World

Speaker: Varun Maram, Cybersecurity Group at SandboxAQ Abstract: In this talk, I'll give an overview of my research journey analyzing real-world cryptographic systems from basic primitives (e.g., publ...

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June 6, 2025 at 8:31 AM