Elevenses & Research Talks

Elevenses talks

Elevenses talks take place 11-11:30 am on Wednesdays.

Tsars: Yee Whye, Sheh

Guidance notes:

• should be 20-30 min
• topic: not technical and of broad interest
• can be funny/off tangent/not about research
• can be on topics outside of machine learning (science, technology, politics)
• can use the screen, or just the whiteboard, or neither
• If you find you cannot give a talk at your allocated date, try switching with others.
• If you would like to discuss with somebody, or give a dry run, please contact Sheh or Yee Whye a few days in advance and we can meet to discuss.

Date	Presenter	Topic
	2021-2022
	Michaelmas
13/10/2021	Michael Hutchinson	Origami Chill
20/10/2021	Jin Xu	Game of Life
27/10/2021	Tim Reichelt	Biathlon: the most exciting sport you've never heard of
03/11/2021		Internships talk
10/11/2021	Bobby He	A few of my favorite violin pieces
17/11/2021	Arni Gunnarsson	DNA sequencing
24/11/2021	Gonzalo Mena	Some tales on the history of probability and statistics
	Hilary
26/01/2022	Mrinank Sharma	Self-Love
02/02/2022	Yuyang Shi	Making of the 2008 Olympics opening ceremony
09/02/2022	Desi Ivanova	How bad is plastic?
16/02/2022	Robert Hu	The history and relationship between Sweden, Denmark and Norway
23/02/2022	Jin Xu	Chinese Movie Recommendations
02/03/2022	Stuart McRobert	Compute Servers
09/03/2022	Emile Mathieu	Cycling in Oxford
16/03/2022	Cong Lu	How do things grow?
23/03/2022	Andrew Campbell	How It's Made
30/03/2022	Ziz compute resources meeting
06/04/2022	Muhammad Faaiz Taufiq	Quadriga - an unsolved mystery of the crypto world
13/04/2022	Easter Break
20/04/2022	Easter Break
27/04/2022	Ziz compute resources meeting

Next up:

• Bryn Elesedy
• Tyler Farghly
• Michael Hutchinson
• Ziz compute resources meeting
• Guneet Singh Dhillon
• Ning Miao
• Eduard Oravkin
• Ziz compute resources meeting
• Leo Klarner
• Sheheryar Zaidi
• Christopher Policastro
• Ziz compute resources meeting
• Joe Benton
• Amitis Shidani
• Chris Williams
• Ziz compute resources meeting
• Freddie Bickford-Smith
• Alex Bunamarginean
• Jean-Francois Ton
• Ziz compute resources meeting
• Adam Golinski

Research talks

Research talks take place 11:30-12 pm on Wednesdays.

Tsars: Yee Whye, Sheh

Guidance: half hour research presentation. This can be on a paper/topic one finds interesting or your own research.

Date	Presenter	Topic
	2021-2022
	Hilary
16/02/2022	Emile Mathieu	Normalizing Flows on Manifolds
23/02/2022	Nic Fishman	FFCV: Fast Forward Computer Vision
02/03/2022	Mrinank Sharma	Bootstrap your own latent
09/03/2022	Joe Benton	Denoising Diffusion Models on Arbitrary State Spaces
16/03/2022	Andrew Campbell	Strange Behaviour of Generative Models
23/03/2022	Jin Xu	Latent SDEs and Infinitely Deep BNNs
30/03/2022	Chris Williams	Diffusions and Deep BSDE
06/04/2022	Alex Bunamarginean	Implicit regularization in (stochastic) gradient descent
13/04/2022	Easter Break
20/04/2022	Easter Break
27/04/2022	Krunoslav Lehman Pavasovic	Bayesian deep learning: the “cold posterior” effect

Next up:

• Arni Gunnarsson
• Ning Miao
• Christopher Policastro
• Tyler Farghly
• Sheheryar Zaidi
• Guneet Singh Dhillon
• Freddie Bickford-Smith
• Leo Klarner
• Yuyang Shi
• Amitis Shidani
• Emilien Dupont
• Adam Golinski
• Eduard Oravkin
• Gonzalo Mena
• Cong Lu
• Tim Reichelt
• Bryn Elesedy
• Michael Hutchinson
• Bobby He
• Robert Hu
• Desi Ivanova
• Muhammad Faaiz Taufiq

Past Elevenses presentations:

Date	Presenter	Topic	Materials
	2020-2021
	Michaelmas
14/10/2020	Joost van Amersfoort	The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Cycling
21/10/2020	Tim Rudner	TBC (postponed)
28/10/2020	Dominic Richards	Hubble Telescope and Deepfield
04/11/2020	Charline Le Lan	A trip to Madrid from home
18/11/2020	Tim Rudner	The 2008 Financial Crisis and the ‘Run on Repo’
25/11/2020	Yee Whye Teh	Malaysian Cuisine
	Hilary
13/01/2021	Rob Zinkov	Hitchhiking
10/02/2021	Robert Hu	Intro: Among Us
17/02/2021	Emilien Dupont	Ice
24/02/2021	Michael Hutchinson	GameStonks
03/03/2021	Jin Xu	Linguistic Relativity
10/03/2021	Adam Golinski	Church in Poland
17/03/2021	Sheheryar Zaidi	Incarceration in the Nordics
24/03/2021	Emile Mathieu	Rebound effect
31/03/2021	Adam Foster	Plato vs. Piers Morgan
07/04/2021	Bobby He	Sun, Sky & Suspicious Practice: the Murdoch Empire
14/04/2021	Jean-Francois Ton	Rubik's Cube
	Trinity
21/04/2021	Bryn Elesedy	Philosophical Paradoxes
28/04/2021	Anthony Caterini	Predicting win probabilities in baseball
05/05/2021	Tim Reichelt	London House Prices
02/06/2021	Muhammad Faaiz Taufiq	Digitization in South Asian Economies
09/06/2021	Arni Gunnarsson	Viking Insults
16/06/2021	Desi Ivanova	Gymnastics
23/06/2021	Mrinank Sharma	What I learnt in the first year of my PhD
30/06/2021	Cong Lu	Things to do in Scotland
07/07/2021	Gonzalo Mena	Do coincidences exist?
14/07/2021	Yuyang Shi	MSG in egg fried rice?
21/07/2021	Ning Miao	Pandas
28/07/2021	Andrew Campbell	The Timing of Evolutionary Transitions Suggests Intelligent Life is Rare
04/08/2021	Break
11/08/2021	Skipped due to mixup
18/08/2021	Marcel Rød	Compilers: How current advances in hardware are useless without good software
25/08/2021	Tyler Farghly	Breakfast Cereal
01/09/2021	Emile Mathieu	Bikepacking
08/09/2021	Adam Foster	Byzantine History: Fantastical But True
15/09/2021	Andrew Campbell	The History and Future of Fusion Power
21/09/2021	Tim Rudner & Cong Lu	Using Notion for Personal Knowledge Management & Research Collaborations
28/09/2021	Faaiz Taufiq	The Theranos Trial
	2019-2020
16/10/2019	Dominic Richards	The role of cats throughout history
30/10/2019	Yee Whye Teh	The azolla event
06/11/2019	Tim Rudner	Existentialism
13/11/2019	Aidan Gomez	Parties at NeurIPS
20/11/2019	Anthony Caterini	Match-Fixing in sports
27/11/2019	Bobby He	Suboptimal Transport
04/12/2019	Robert Hu	Steak: A prime(r) cut , part 1
15/01/2020	Jin Xu	Wei-Jin Demeanor
22/01/2020	Emile Mathieu	The Myth of Green Growth	Slides
29/01/2020	Sheheryar Zaidi	Mass Extinctions
05/02/2020	No Speaker	ICML Deadline
12/02/2020	Bryn Elesedy	Coffee
19/02/2020	Bradley Gram-Hansen	How to Wild Camp
26/02/2020	No Speaker
04/03/2020	Michael Hutchinson	Origami and Math
11/03/2020	No Speaker	Transition to remote
18/03/2020	No Speaker	Transition to remote
25/03/2020	Emilien Dupont	Life in the Bay Area
01/04/2020	Adam Foster	That Neil Ferguson Paper in Full
08/04/2020	Adam Golinski	Life in Amsterdam
15/04/2020	Joost van Amersfoort	The Psychedelic Renaissance
22/04/2020	Yuan Zhou	Physical Limits of the Human Body
29/04/2020	Charline Le Lan	Discovering Montreal
06/05/2020	Rob Zinkov	Yo-yos
Rest of May	No talks	NeurIPS hiatus
18/06/2020	Jean-Francois Ton	Rubik's Cubes
	2018-2019
26/10/2018	Emile Mathieu	Paris Commune 1871	Slides
2/11/2018	Chris Maddison	Octopus Intelligence
9/11/2018	Tom Rainforth	NIPS Reviewing Experiment
16/11/2018	Ben Bloem-Reddy	Culture and Objectives in Stats and ML	Slides
23/11/2018	Bradley Gram-Hansen	AI for social good
30/11/2018	Fadhel Ayed	Gilet Jaunes Movement
18/1/2019	Anthony Caterini	Miles Davis
25/1/2019	Juho Lee	Dark side of Korean graduate schools
1/2/2019	No Talk
8/2/2019	David Rindt	Blue Animals
15/2/2019	Jin Xu	A Flavour of Ancient Egyptian Hieraglyphs
22/2/2019	Xenia Miscouridou	Plato's academy in Ancient Greece
1/3/2019	No Talk
8/3/2019	Dominic Richards
15/3/2019	Jean-Francois Ton	Magic
22/3/2019	Yee Whye	Despatches from dataland
29/3/2019	Emilien Dupont	Generative Art
5/4/2019	Adam Golinski	Manhattan Project and AI Geopolitics
12/4/2019	Easter break
19/4/2019	Easter break
26/4/2019	Adam Foster	Are we living through a Gold Rush?
10/5/2019	Giuseppe Di Benedetto	Bernini vs. Borromini
17/5/2019	No Talk
24/5/2019	Robert Hu	Economical Independence: A Primer
31/5/2019	Frauke Harms	Non-machine learning
7/6/2019	Yuan Zhou	Healthy lifestyle - Facts and Fraud
14/6/2019	Joost van Amersfoort	Oxford Psychedelic Society and the Psychedelic Renaissance
21/6/2019	Aidan Gomez	for.ai
28/6/2019	Alan Chau	Martial Arts
	2017-2018
27/10/2017	Yee Whye	A brief history of NIPS parties
3/11/2017	Anthony	When do TV shows go bad?
10/11/2017	Sebastian (replace Jovana)	Georges Seurat
17/11/2017	Leonard
24/11/2017	Leon
1/12/2017	Konstantina
4-9/12/2017	NIPS
19/1/2018	Giuseppe	Beating the bookies with their own numbers
26/1/2018	Marco
2/2/2018	Maxime Rischard (invited)
16/2/2018	Chris
2/3/2018	Fadhel
9/3/2018	Emile	Paris Commune 1871	Slides
16/3/2018	AdamK
23/3/2018	Dominic	Cambridge Analytica
11/5/2018	Xenia
18/5/2018	Ben
25/5/2018	Tom	Highlights of Sigbovik 2018
1/6/2018	Frauke
8/6/2018	Hyunjik
15/6/2018	Qinyi
22/6/2018	AdamF
29/6/2018	Stefan