<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:small"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><b>When:</b>    </font></font><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">    Wednesday</font><span class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">, May 24th </span><font style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">at</font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><u>10:30</u></span></b><b><u><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"> a</font></u></b><b><u><font color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">m CT</font></u><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)">   </span></font></b></font></font><br></font></div></div><div><p style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;margin:0px"><font color="#000000"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font face="georgia, serif" style="vertical-align:inherit"><b><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,0)"><br></span></b></font></font></font></p><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><b><font color="#500050">Where:      </font><font color="#000000"> </font></b><font color="#000000">Talk will be given <font style="font-weight:bold"><u>live, in-person</u></font><font style="font-weight:bold"> </font>at</font></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#500050">               </font><font color="#000000">        TTIC, 6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font color="#000000" face="georgia, serif">                       5th Floor, Room 530<b> </b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="color:black"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><b style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">Virtually:</b><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">   via Panopto </span>(<a href="https://uchicago.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=d325f920-b78f-4ddb-8007-af8e01174001" target="_blank">livestream</a><span style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="vertical-align:inherit"><font style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><b>Who: </b> </font><font color="#500050" style="color:rgb(80,0,80)">    </font><font color="#000000"><font color="#500050">    </font></font></font></font>Francesca Mignacco, Princeton University</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;color:rgb(80,0,80);line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"></p><div><p style="color:rgb(60,64,67);letter-spacing:0.2px;white-space:pre-wrap"><font face="georgia, serif"><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><b>Title:</b>          </span><span style="letter-spacing:normal;color:rgb(34,34,34)">Statistical physics insights into the dynamics of learning algorithms</span></font></p><div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Abstract:  </b>In this talk, I will consider prototypical learning problems that are amenable to an exact characterization. I will show how dynamical mean-field theory from statistical physics can be used to derive an effective low-dimensional description of the network performance and the learning dynamics of multi-pass SGD. I will discuss how different sources of algorithmic noise affect the performance.</font></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><font face="georgia, serif"><b>Bio:</b> Francesca is<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for the Physics of Biological Function at Princeton University and CUNY Graduate Center. Francesca received her Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Université Paris-Saclay in 2022.</span></font><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></span></div><b><font face="georgia, serif">Host: <a href="mailto:nati@ttic.edu">Nati Srebro</a></font></b></div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div></div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif">**************************************************************************************************<br></font></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="georgia, serif"> </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><font face="georgia, serif">The <font color="#3d85c6"><i><b>TTIC <span class="gmail-il">Young</span> Researcher Seminar <span class="gmail-il">Series</span></b></i></font> (<a href="http://www.ttic.edu/young-researcher.php" target="_blank">http://www.ttic.edu/<span class="gmail-il">young</span>-researcher.php</a>) features talks by Ph.D. students and postdocs whose <span class="gmail-il">research</span> is of broad interest to the computer science community. The <span class="gmail-il">series</span> provides an opportunity for early-career <span class="gmail-il">researchers</span> to present recent work to and meet with students and faculty at TTIC and nearby universities.</font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;font-size:12.8px"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p></div></div></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><font face="georgia, serif"><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">--</span><br></font><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div dir="ltr"><b><font color="#3d85c6" face="georgia, serif">Brandie Jones </font></b><div><div><div><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#3d85c6"><b><i>Executive </i></b></font><b style="color:rgb(61,133,198)"><i>Administrative Assistant</i></b></font></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6" face="georgia, serif">Toyota Technological Institute</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6" face="georgia, serif">6045 S. Kenwood Avenue</font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6" face="georgia, serif">Chicago, IL  60637</font></div></div><div><font color="#3d85c6" face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://www.ttic.edu/" target="_blank">www.ttic.edu</a> </font></div><div><font color="#3d85c6" face="georgia, serif"><div style="background-color:rgb(238,238,238)"><div style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><span style="color:rgb(61,133,198)">Working Remotely on Tuesdays</span></div></div></font></div></div></div></div></div>