Friday, April 10 – Bldg. 45, 8th Floor
Schwarzman College of Computing

9:00am – Registration

9:20am – 9:30am – Opening Remarks
Ankur Moitra, Director, SDSC

9:30am – 10:30am – Plenary Speaker
Joshua Batson, Anthropic AI
“The Art and Science of Interpretability”

10:30am – 11:00am – Break

11:00am – Noon – Student and Postdoc Lightning Talks

Noon – 2:00pm – Lunch and Poster Session

2:00pm – 2:45pm – Plenary Speaker
Yuting Wei, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
“Efficient Sampling with Discrete Diffusion Models: Sharp and Adaptive Guarantees”

2:45pm – 3:30pm – Plenary Speaker
Alex Damian, Harvard University – Kempner Institute for the Study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence
“Understanding Optimization in Deep Learning”

3:30pm – 3:45pm – Closing Remarks