<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;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-size:15px;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-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">This Thursday, April 18: </b><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;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-size:15px;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-size:15px;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-size:15px;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-size:15px;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><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-size:15px;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-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Thursday, May 2: </b><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://sociology.princeton.edu/people/brandon-stewart" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Brandon Stewart</a><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University, will present a lecture titled "Getting Inference Right with LLM  Annotations in the Social Sciences" on </span><a target="_blank" class="gmail-c-link" href="https://datascience.uchicago.edu/events/brandon-stewart-princeton/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="box-sizing:inherit;text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;font-variant-ligatures:common-ligatures">Thursday, May 2 </a><span style="color:rgb(29,28,29);font-family:Slack-Lato,Slack-Fractions,appleLogo,sans-serif;font-size:15px;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></div>