<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">The University of Chicago Data Science Institute, Department of Statistics, Department of Computer Science, and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics are proud to announce our Spring 2024 </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/news/spring-2024-distinguished-speaker-series/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Distinguished Speaker Series</a><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">. Join us for stimulating talks from leading data science researchers exploring and expanding the fundamental methods and approaches that transform large and complex datasets into knowledge and action.</span></font><span aria-label="" class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Dr. Inderjit S. Dhillon, Gottesman Family Centennial Professor of Computer Science and Mathematics at UT Austin, will present the </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/events/inderjit-dhillon-uta" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">first talk of the series</a><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"> taking place Friday, April 5 in the Jones Laboratory, room 303, with a lunch social starting at noon before the lecture at 12:30 p.m. We hope you can join us!</span></font><br><div><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><br></span></font></div><div><div><font color="#000000" face="Slack-Lato, Slack-Fractions, appleLogo, sans-serif"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">The next talks in the series take place in JCL 390, with a lunch social at noon and the lecture at 12:30:</span></font></div><div><p style="box-sizing:inherit;letter-spacing:-0.1px;line-height:1.43;margin:19px 0px;font-family:"HCo Gotham Narrow SSm","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><span style="box-sizing:inherit">April 18: </span><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/irinarish/home" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Irina Rish</a>, Université de Montréal – <a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/events/irina-rish-montreal/" target="_blank" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">“Scaling to AGI”</a></font></p><p style="box-sizing:inherit;letter-spacing:-0.1px;line-height:1.43;margin:19px 0px;font-family:"HCo Gotham Narrow SSm","Helvetica Neue",helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:-0.1px;box-sizing:inherit">May 2: </span><a href="https://bstewart.scholar.princeton.edu/" target="_blank" style="letter-spacing:-0.1px;box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">Brandon Stewart</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);letter-spacing:-0.1px">, Princeton University – </span><a href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/events/brandon-stewart-princeton/" target="_blank" style="letter-spacing:-0.1px;box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">“TBA”</a></p></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>