DSF Seminar - THE SEMINAR SERIES

External guests and institute members present their work in a weekly slot. The seminar
runs year-round on Thursdays at 02:30 pm in Room 5.002, HIP One, Blohmstraße 15,
21079 Hamburg. Public lectures are open to all visitors, both on site and via Zoom;
no registration is required to attend. Not every Thursday is a public lecture.

For invitations to the mailing list, contact dsf-office@tuhh.de.

Next talk

22.10.26
by Leon Sierau, Institute for Data Science Foundations - on Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 02:30 pm - in room 5.002, HIPone, Blohmstr. 15, 21079 Hamburg.

Planned talks

no news found!

Past talks

13.12.24
On December 12, 2024. Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, Arizona State University
22.10.24
On October 23, Swarnadeep Bhar, IRIT, Toulouse Institute for Research in Computer Science
04.10.24
On October 29th, 2024. Qianyang Chen, University of Sydney
02.08.24
September 30 – October 4, 2024. University of Bamberg
31.05.24
NeurIT: Information theory in neuroscience and neuroengineering, July 7-12, 2024.
24.01.24
Janek Gödeke, University of Bremen
02.11.23
Dieter Büchler, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Call for speakers

External and internal researchers are invited to propose talks. Please send a short abstract to dsf-office(at)tuhh.de

 

Max Plank based Seminars

March 19, 2021, Stefanie Jegelka, Machine Learning Group at MIT

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Representation and Learning in Graph Neural Networks

Stefanie Jegelka, Machine Learning Group at MIT, USA

19.03.2021, 16:00 Uhr

The seminar is cancelled.

August 04, 2020, Marco Mondelli, IST Austria

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Understanding Gradient Descent for Over-parameterized Deep Neural Networks

Marco Mondelli, IST Austria

04.08.2020, 11:00 Uhr

July 20, 2020, Franca Hoffmann, California Institute of Technology

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Kalman-Wasserstein Gradient Flows

Franca Hoffmann, California Institute of Technology

20.07.2020, 17:00 Uhr

February 04, 2020, Xerxes Arsiwalla, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona

Special Seminar : Extending Integrated Information Theories for Cognitive Systems

Xerxes Arsiwalla, Pompeu Fabra University Barcelona, Spain

04.02.2020, 11:00 Uhr

10 December, 2019, Mikhail Belkin, The Ohio State University

Chalk Talk – Mathematics of Data Seminar : What’s next for machine learning? Some thoughts toward a unified theory of supervised inference.

Mikhail Belkin, The Ohio State University, USA

10.12.2019, 16:45 Uhr

14 November, 2019, Kathlén Kohn, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Mathematics of Data Seminar : The geometry of neural networks

Kathlén Kohn, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm

14.11.2019, 11:00 Uhr

23 October, 2019, Věra Kůrková, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Lower Bounds on Complexity of Shallow Networks

Věra Kůrková, Institute of Computer Science, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic

23.10.2019, 11:00 Uhr

18 September, 2019, Vladimir Temlyakov, University of South Carolina

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Supervised learning and sampling error of integral norms in function classes

Vladimir Temlyakov, University of South Carolina

18.09.2019, 11:00 Uhr

16 July, 2019, Lamiae Azizi, The University of Sydney

Mathematics of Data Seminar : A Mathematical trip into the Data Science realm

Lamiae Azizi, The University of Sydney

16.07.2019, 11:00 Uhr

This seminar is cancelled.

28 May, 2019, Nicolas Garcia Trillos, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Mathematics of Data Seminar : The use of geometry to learn from data, and the learning of geometry from data.

Nicolas Garcia Trillos, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

28.05.2019, 11:15 Uhr

10 April, 2019, Gabriel Peyré, CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Computational Optimal Transport for Data Sciences

Gabriel Peyré, CNRS and Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France

10.04.2019, 11:00 Uhr

07 March, 2019, Stefania Petra, Universität Heidelberg

Mathematics of Data Seminar :Compressed Sensing – From Theory To Practice

Stefania Petra, Universität Heidelberg

07.03.2019, 11:00 Uhr

14 February, 2019, Felix Krahmer, Technische Universität München

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Blind deconvolution with randomness – convex geometry and algorithmic approaches

Felix Krahmer, Technische Universität München

14.02.2019, 11:00 Uhr

28 January, 2019, Nils Bertschinger, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS)

Mathematics of Data Seminar : A geometric structure underlying stock correlations

Nils Bertschinger, Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS), Germany

28.01.2019, 11:00 Uhr

08 November, 2018, Benjamin Fehrmann, University of Oxford

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Convergence rates for mean field stochastic gradient descent algorithms

Benjamin Fehrmann, University of Oxford

08.11.2018, 11:00 Uhr

27 September, 2018, Max von Renesse, Universität Leipzig

Mathematics of Data Seminar :Topics in Deterministic and Stochastic Dynamical Systems on Wasserstein Space

Max von Renesse, Universität Leipzig

27.09.2018, 11:00 Uhr

14 August, 2018, Afonso Bandeira, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Statistical estimation under group actions: The Sample Complexity of Multi-Reference Alignment

Afonso Bandeira, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York

14.08.2018, 16:30 Uhr

11 July, 2018, Harald Oberhauser, University of Oxford

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Learning laws of stochastic processes

Harald Oberhauser, University of Oxford

11.07.2018, 15:30 Uhr

18 June, 2018, Anna Seigal, University of California, Berkeley

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Structured Tensors and the Geometry of Data

Anna Seigal, University of California, Berkeley

18.06.2018, 15:30 Uhr

14 May, 2018, Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, MPI MIS, Leipzig

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : Quantifying Morphological Computation

Keyan Ghazi-Zahedi, MPI MIS, Leipzig

14.05.2018, 14:00 Uhr

02 May, 2018, Steffen Lauritzen, University of Copenhagen

Mathematics of Data Seminar : Max-linear Bayesian networks

Steffen Lauritzen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

02.05.2018, 11:00 Uhr

24 April, 2018, Benjamin Recht, University of California, Berkeley

Mathematics of Data Seminar : The statistical foundations of learning to control

Benjamin Recht, University of California, Berkeley

24.04.2018, 15:30 Uhr

22 March, 2018, Dimitri Marinelli, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology (RIST)

Information Geometry Seminar : Quantum Information Geometry and Boltzmann Machines

Dimitri Marinelli, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology (RIST), Romania

22.03.2018, 14:00 Uhr

08 January, 2018, Nihat Ay, MPI MIS, Leipzig

LikBez Seminar : Causal Inference II

Nihat Ay, MPI MIS, Leipzig

08.01.2018, 14:00 Uhr

04 December, 2017, Wolfgang Löhr, TU Chemnitz

Special Seminar : Continuum limits of tree-valued Markov chains and algebraic measure trees

Wolfgang Löhr, TU Chemnitz

04.12.2017, 11:00 Uhr

27 November, 2017, Fabio Bonsignorio, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : Modeling of Networked Embodied Cognitive Processes

Fabio Bonsignorio, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy

27.11.2017, 14:00 Uhr

10 November, 2017, Jun Zhang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Information Geometry Seminar : Statistical Manifold and Entropy-Based Inference

Jun Zhang, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, USA

10.11.2017, 11:45 Uhr

16 October, 2017, Luigi Malagò, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology (RIST)

Information Geometry Seminar : From Natural Gradient to Riemannian Hessian: Second-order Optimization over Statistical Manifolds

Luigi Malagò, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology (RIST), Romania

16.10.2017, 14:00 Uhr

10 May, 2017, Domenico Felice, University of Camerino

Information Geometry Seminar : Hamilton-Jacobi approach to Potential Functions in Information Geometry

Domenico Felice, University of Camerino, Italy

10.05.2017, 14:00 Uhr

25 November, 2016, František Matúš, Czech Academy of Sciences

Special Seminar : Polyquantoids and quantoids: quantum counteparts of polymatroids and matroids

František Matúš, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic

25.11.2016, 15:30 Uhr

28 June, 2016, Daniel Polani, University of Hertfortshire

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : On Information and the Drivers of Cognition

Daniel Polani, University of Hertfortshire, United Kingdom

28.06.2016, 15:30 Uhr

10 May, 2016, Roy Fox, Hebrew University

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : Minimum-Information Planning in Partially-Observable Decision Problems

Roy Fox, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Hebrew University, Israel

10.05.2016, 11:00 Uhr

30 March, 2016, Daniel Häufle, Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Technology

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : Musculo-Skeletal Models of Human Movement: Tools to Quantify Embodiment

Daniel Häufle, Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany

30.03.2016, 11:00 Uhr

21 January, 2016, Daniel Häufle, Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Technology

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : Musculo-Skeletal Models of Human Movement: Tools to Quantify Embodiment

Daniel Häufle, Stuttgart Research Center for Simulation Technology, University of Stuttgart, Germany

21.01.2016, 11:00 Uhr

This talk is canceled!

09 November, 2015, Tomas Veloz, University of British Columbia

Arbeitsgemeinschaft NEURONALE NETZE UND KOGNITIVE SYSTEME : Toward a Quantum Theory of Cognition: History, Development and Perspectives

Tomas Veloz, University of British Columbia, Canada

09.11.2015, 14:00 Uhr

08 April, 2015, Sajad Saeedinaeeni, Universität Leipzig

Special Seminar : On asymptotic optimality of ML-type detectors in quantum hypothesis testing

Sajad Saeedinaeeni, Universität Leipzig

08.04.2015, 14:00 Uhr

17 March, 2015, Peter Gmeiner, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg

Special Seminar : Information-Theoretic Cheeger Inequalities

Peter Gmeiner, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

17.03.2015, 14:00 Uhr

10 March, 2015, Benjamin Friedrich, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : Intelligent motility control of biological swimmers

Benjamin Friedrich, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik komplexer Systeme, Dresden

10.03.2015, 11:00 Uhr

18 February, 2015, Ryszard Kostecki, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo

Special Seminar : Quantum information geometry as a foundation for quantum theory beyond quantum mechanics

Ryszard Kostecki, Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics, Waterloo, Canada

18.02.2015, 14:00 Uhr

19 January, 2015, Oliver Brock, Technische Universität Berlin

Seminar on Theory of Embodied Intelligence : Towards an Alchemy of Intelligence

Oliver Brock, Technische Universität Berlin, Robotics and Biology Laboratory

19.01.2015, 11:00 Uhr

15 January, 2015, František Matúš, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic

Special Seminar : Algebraic Problems Related to Entropy Regions

František Matúš, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Institute of Information Theory and Automation

15.01.2015, 10:30 Uhr