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Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing an explosive phase - machines can now accomplish complex specific tasks at a level that exceeds human skills. At the basis of this performance is the ability to understand sensory input from the external world and to associate it with effective strategies to achieve a desired goal.This advanced school aims to combine different yet strongly coupled perspectives: first, theoretical approaches, which focus on principles, algorithms, and their applications to computer science; second, the relationship with experimental neuroscience, which has inspired the latest generation developments in AI and has, in turn, benefited from the ability of AI to investigate the computations underlying complex cognitive processes; third, applications such as robotics, gaming, etc.The topics covered include:Deep learning and its relation to vision and languageReinforcement learning and decision makingSensorimotor learningThe ethics of artificial intelligence and its ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is undergoing an explosive phase - machines can now accomplish complex specific tasks at a level that exceeds human skills. At the basis of this performance is the ability to understand sensory input from the external world and to associate it with effective strategies to achieve a desired goal.This advanced school aims to combine different yet strongly coupled perspectives: first, theoretical approaches, which focus on principles, algorithms, and their applications to computer science; second, the relationship with experimental neuroscience, which has inspired the latest generation developments in AI and has, in turn, benefited from the ability of AI to investigate the computations underlying complex cognitive processes; third, applications such as robotics, gaming, etc.The topics covered include:Deep learning and its relation to vision and languageReinforcement learning and decision makingSensorimotor learningThe ethics of artificial intelligence and its ...

Canada has great ambitions in the area of wide-field astronomical surveys and a strong heritage. On the eve of the Canadian Long Range Plan 2020 this workshop brings together the Canadian wide field astronomy community to discuss our strategy including possible areas of scientific and technical coordination. We will review existing and near-term surveys on facilities including CFHT MWA CHIME Dragonfly Gaia SDSS-V DESI Euclid and LSST as well as future projects like MSE and SKA1 on the ground and WFIRST and CASTOR in space. Invited talks will highlight areas of rapid expansion including time domain astrophysics and radio surveys as well as data archives and computing platforms like CADC Canfar and CIRADA that enable the exploitation of wide field and time-domain data by the community. Our activities aim to ensure that wide field and time-domain science emerge with strong support in LRP2020 and are able to attract significant funding.

The discussion meeting on Complex Algebraic Geometry will be centered around the "Infosys-ICTS Ramanujan lectures" of Professor Claire Voisin. Complex algebraic geometry is a rich, classical area of mathematics. We shall focus on some specific themes including, but not restricted to vector bundles over complex varieties, topology of varieties, Chow groups, etc.  Participation by invitation alone

The discussion meeting on Complex Algebraic Geometry will be centered around the "Infosys-ICTS Ramanujan lectures" of Professor Claire Voisin. Complex algebraic geometry is a rich, classical area of mathematics. We shall focus on some specific themes including, but not restricted to vector bundles over complex varieties, topology of varieties, Chow groups, etc.  Participation by invitation alone