<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Please join us for two upcoming Distinguished Speaker Series lectures:</span><span aria-label="" class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><b style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">This Friday: </b><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);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="color:rgb(29,28,29);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. The talk is titled "MatFormer: Nested Transformer for Elastic Inference." </span><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">This is a joint event presented by the DSI Distinguished Speaker Series and the </i><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://cam.uchicago.edu/events/cam-colloquium/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none">CAM Colloquium</a></i><i style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">.</i><span aria-label="" class="gmail-c-mrkdwn__br" style="box-sizing:inherit;height:8px;display:block;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"></span><b style="box-sizing:inherit;color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">April 18: </b><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Distinguished Speaker </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://sites.google.com/view/irinarish/" 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">Irina Rish</a><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">, Professor of Computer Science and Operations Research at Université de Montréal, will present a lecture titled "Scaling to AGI" on </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/events/irina-rish-montreal/" 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">Thursday, April 18</a><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures"> in the John Crerar Library Building, Room 390, with a lunch social starting at noon before the lecture at 12:30 p.m.</span><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Molly R. Long</b> (they/them)<div>Research Team Coordinator</div><div>University of Chicago Data Science Institute</div><div><a href="mailto:mrlong@uchicago.edu" target="_blank">mrlong@uchicago.edu</a> - JCL 150</div></div></div></div>