BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Olle Häggström (Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden) DTSTART:20230821T140000Z DTEND:20230821T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/1 DESCRIPTION:Title: AI risk and AI alignment\nby Olle Häggström (Chalmers Univers ity of Technology\, Sweden) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horiz ons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbs tract\nThe planetary dominance over other species that humanity has attain ed has very little to do with muscular strength and physical endurance: it is all about intelligence. This makes the present moment in history\, whe n we are automating intelligence and handing over this crucial skill to ma chines\, the most important ever. The research area that has become known as AI alignment deals with how to make sure that the first superintelligen t machines have goals and values that are sufficiently aligned with ours a nd that sufficiently prioritize human flourishing. This needs to succeed\, because otherwise we face existential catastrophe. In these lectures I wi ll outline key challenges in AI alignment\, what is being done to solve th em\, and how all this relates to the breakneck speed at which AI is presen tly advancing.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Olle Häggström (Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden) DTSTART:20230821T153000Z DTEND:20230821T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/2 DESCRIPTION:Title: AI risk and AI alignment\nby Olle Häggström (Chalmers Univers ity of Technology\, Sweden) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horiz ons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbs tract\nThe planetary dominance over other species that humanity has attain ed has very little to do with muscular strength and physical endurance: it is all about intelligence. This makes the present moment in history\, whe n we are automating intelligence and handing over this crucial skill to ma chines\, the most important ever. The research area that has become known as AI alignment deals with how to make sure that the first superintelligen t machines have goals and values that are sufficiently aligned with ours a nd that sufficiently prioritize human flourishing. This needs to succeed\, because otherwise we face existential catastrophe. In these lectures I wi ll outline key challenges in AI alignment\, what is being done to solve th em\, and how all this relates to the breakneck speed at which AI is presen tly advancing.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/2/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Olle Häggström (Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden) DTSTART:20230822T140000Z DTEND:20230822T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/3 DESCRIPTION:Title: AI risk and AI alignment\nby Olle Häggström (Chalmers Univers ity of Technology\, Sweden) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horiz ons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbs tract\nThe planetary dominance over other species that humanity has attain ed has very little to do with muscular strength and physical endurance: it is all about intelligence. This makes the present moment in history\, whe n we are automating intelligence and handing over this crucial skill to ma chines\, the most important ever. The research area that has become known as AI alignment deals with how to make sure that the first superintelligen t machines have goals and values that are sufficiently aligned with ours a nd that sufficiently prioritize human flourishing. This needs to succeed\, because otherwise we face existential catastrophe. In these lectures I wi ll outline key challenges in AI alignment\, what is being done to solve th em\, and how all this relates to the breakneck speed at which AI is presen tly advancing.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/3/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Noémie Combe (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences\, Germany) DTSTART:20230822T153000Z DTEND:20230822T173000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/4 DESCRIPTION:Title: Exploring Information Geometry: Recent Advances and Connections to Topological Field Theory\nby Noémie Combe (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences\, Germany) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinar y Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n \n\nAbstract\nWith the rapid progress of machine learning\, artificial int elligence and data sciences\, the topic of information geometry is an impo rtant domain of research. We aim at introducing the topic of information g eometry\, as well as presenting some recent progress in this domain. Diffe rential geometry and algebraic aspects shall be developed. The new tight r elation between the information geometry and topological field theory will be discussed.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/4/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Noémie Combe (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences\, Germany) DTSTART:20230824T140000Z DTEND:20230824T160000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/5 DESCRIPTION:Title: Exploring Information Geometry: Recent Advances and Connections to Topological Field Theory\nby Noémie Combe (Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Sciences\, Germany) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinar y Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n \n\nAbstract\nWith the rapid progress of machine learning\, artificial int elligence and data sciences\, the topic of information geometry is an impo rtant domain of research. We aim at introducing the topic of information g eometry\, as well as presenting some recent progress in this domain. Diffe rential geometry and algebraic aspects shall be developed. The new tight r elation between the information geometry and topological field theory will be discussed.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/5/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frédéric Barbaresco (Thales Land and Air Systems\, France) DTSTART:20230828T140000Z DTEND:20230828T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/6 DESCRIPTION:Title: Symplectic Foliation Structures of Information Geometry for Lie Gro ups Machine Learning\nby Frédéric Barbaresco (Thales Land and Air Sy stems\, France) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: S afety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nWe pr esent a new symplectic model of Information Geometry based on Jean-Marie Souriau's Lie Groups Thermodynamics. Souriau model was initially described in chapter IV “Statistical Mechanics” of his book “Structure of dyn amical systems” published in 1969. This model gives a purely geometric characterization of Entropy\, which appears as an invariant Casimir functi on in coadjoint representation\, characterized by Poisson cohomology. Sour iau has proved that we can associate a symplectic manifold to coadjoint or bits of a Lie group by the KKS 2-form (Kirillov\, Kostant\, Souriau 2-form ) in the affine case (affine model of coadjoint operator equivariance via Souriau's cocycle)\, that we have identified with Koszul-Fisher metric fro m Information Geometry. Souriau established the generalized Gibbs density covariant under the action of the Lie group. The dual space of the Lie alg ebra foliates into coadjoint orbits that are also the Entropy level sets t hat could be interpreted in the framework of Thermodynamics by the fact th at dynamics on these symplectic leaves are non-dissipative\, whereas trans versal dynamics\, given by Poisson transverse structure\, are dissipative. We will finally introduce Gaussian distribution on the space of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices\, through Souriau's covariant Gibbs dens ity by considering this space as the pure imaginary axis of the homogeneou s Siegel upper half space where Sp(2n\,R)/U(n) acts transitively. We will also consider Gibbs density for Siegel Disk where SU(n\,n)/S(U(n)xU(n)) ac ts transitively. Gauss density of SPD matrices is then computed through So uriau's moment map and coadjoint orbits. Souriau’s Lie Groups Thermodyna mics model will be further explored in European COST network CaLISTA and E uropean HORIZON-MSCA project CaLIGOLA.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/6/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frédéric Barbaresco (Thales Land and Air Systems\, France) DTSTART:20230828T153000Z DTEND:20230828T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/7 DESCRIPTION:Title: Symplectic Foliation Structures of Information Geometry for Lie Gro ups Machine Learning\nby Frédéric Barbaresco (Thales Land and Air Sy stems\, France) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: S afety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nWe pr esent a new symplectic model of Information Geometry based on Jean-Marie Souriau's Lie Groups Thermodynamics. Souriau model was initially described in chapter IV “Statistical Mechanics” of his book “Structure of dyn amical systems” published in 1969. This model gives a purely geometric characterization of Entropy\, which appears as an invariant Casimir functi on in coadjoint representation\, characterized by Poisson cohomology. Sour iau has proved that we can associate a symplectic manifold to coadjoint or bits of a Lie group by the KKS 2-form (Kirillov\, Kostant\, Souriau 2-form ) in the affine case (affine model of coadjoint operator equivariance via Souriau's cocycle)\, that we have identified with Koszul-Fisher metric fro m Information Geometry. Souriau established the generalized Gibbs density covariant under the action of the Lie group. The dual space of the Lie alg ebra foliates into coadjoint orbits that are also the Entropy level sets t hat could be interpreted in the framework of Thermodynamics by the fact th at dynamics on these symplectic leaves are non-dissipative\, whereas trans versal dynamics\, given by Poisson transverse structure\, are dissipative. We will finally introduce Gaussian distribution on the space of Symmetric Positive Definite (SPD) matrices\, through Souriau's covariant Gibbs dens ity by considering this space as the pure imaginary axis of the homogeneou s Siegel upper half space where Sp(2n\,R)/U(n) acts transitively. We will also consider Gibbs density for Siegel Disk where SU(n\,n)/S(U(n)xU(n)) ac ts transitively. Gauss density of SPD matrices is then computed through So uriau's moment map and coadjoint orbits. Souriau’s Lie Groups Thermodyna mics model will be further explored in European COST network CaLISTA and E uropean HORIZON-MSCA project CaLIGOLA.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/7/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seth Baum (Global Catastrophic Risk Institute\, University of Camb ridge\, USA) DTSTART:20230829T140000Z DTEND:20230829T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/10 DESCRIPTION:Title: Social and Philosophical Dimensions of AI Alignment\nby Seth B aum (Global Catastrophic Risk Institute\, University of Cambridge\, USA) a s part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functiona l Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nSuccessful AI alignmen t requires three steps: (1) concept(s) for what\, if anything\, to align A I to\; (2) design(s) for how to implement the concept(s) in one or more AI systems\; and (3) the usage\, by human developers of AI systems\, of thes e design(s) instead of other\, less suitable design(s). Step (1) is mainly a matter of moral philosophy\; step (2) is mainly a matter of computer sc ience\; and step (3) is mainly a matter of social science and politics. My lecture(s) will cover steps (1) and (3).\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/10/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Seth Baum (Global Catastrophic Risk Institute\, University of Camb ridge\, USA) DTSTART:20230829T153000Z DTEND:20230829T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/11 DESCRIPTION:Title: Social and Philosophical Dimensions of AI Alignment\nby Seth B aum (Global Catastrophic Risk Institute\, University of Cambridge\, USA) a s part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functiona l Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nSuccessful AI alignmen t requires three steps: (1) concept(s) for what\, if anything\, to align A I to\; (2) design(s) for how to implement the concept(s) in one or more AI systems\; and (3) the usage\, by human developers of AI systems\, of thes e design(s) instead of other\, less suitable design(s). Step (1) is mainly a matter of moral philosophy\; step (2) is mainly a matter of computer sc ience\; and step (3) is mainly a matter of social science and politics. My lecture(s) will cover steps (1) and (3).\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/11/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Patrik Jansson (Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden) DTSTART:20230830T140000Z DTEND:20230830T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/14 DESCRIPTION:Title: Domain-Specific Languages of Mathematics\nby Patrik Jansson (C halmers University of Technology\, Sweden) as part of Mapping the Interdis ciplinary Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Ge ometry\n\n\nAbstract\nThe main idea behind this minicoure is to encourage the students to approach mathematical domains from a functional programmin g perspective. We will learn about the language Haskell\; identify the mai n functions and types involved\; introduce calculational proofs\; pay atte ntion to the syntax of mathematical expressions\; and\, finally\, to orga nize the resulting functions and types in domain-specific languages.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/14/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Patrik Jansson (Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden) DTSTART:20230830T153000Z DTEND:20230830T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/15 DESCRIPTION:Title: Domain-Specific Languages of Mathematics\nby Patrik Jansson (C halmers University of Technology\, Sweden) as part of Mapping the Interdis ciplinary Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Ge ometry\n\n\nAbstract\nThe main idea behind this minicoure is to encourage the students to approach mathematical domains from a functional programmin g perspective. We will learn about the language Haskell\; identify the mai n functions and types involved\; introduce calculational proofs\; pay atte ntion to the syntax of mathematical expressions\; and\, finally\, to orga nize the resulting functions and types in domain-specific languages.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/15/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Patrik Jansson (Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden) DTSTART:20230831T140000Z DTEND:20230831T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/16 DESCRIPTION:Title: Domain-Specific Languages of Mathematics\nby Patrik Jansson (C halmers University of Technology\, Sweden) as part of Mapping the Interdis ciplinary Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Ge ometry\n\n\nAbstract\nThe main idea behind this minicoure is to encourage the students to approach mathematical domains from a functional programmin g perspective. We will learn about the language Haskell\; identify the mai n functions and types involved\; introduce calculational proofs\; pay atte ntion to the syntax of mathematical expressions\; and\, finally\, to orga nize the resulting functions and types in domain-specific languages.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/16/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kazuki Okamura (Shizuoka University\, Japan) DTSTART:20230831T153000Z DTEND:20230831T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/17 DESCRIPTION:Title: Metrization of powers of the Jensen-Shannon divergence [part of Wo rkshop]\nby Kazuki Okamura (Shizuoka University\, Japan) as part of Ma pping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functional Programmin g\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nMetrization of statistical diverge nces is useful in both the theoretical and practical aspects. \nConsiderin g the fractional powers of statistical divergences is one way to obtain me trics associated with divergences. \nWith this motivation\, Osán\, Bussan dri\, and Lamberti (2018) considered metrizations for the fractional power s of the Jensen-Shannon divergences between multinomial distributions and gave an open problem. \nWe give an affirmative answer to their conjecture. \nOur method is also applicable to fractional powers of f-divergences bet ween the Cauchy distribution.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/17/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dmitri Alekseevsky (University of Hradec Králové\, Czech Republi c) DTSTART:20230823T140000Z DTEND:20230823T150000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/18 DESCRIPTION:Title: Neurogeometry of Vision and Information Geometry of Homogeneous Co nvex Cones\nby Dmitri Alekseevsky (University of Hradec Králové\, Cz ech Republic) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: Saf ety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nThese l ectures will provide a comprehensive overview of information processing. W e will start with information processing in early vision in static and geo metric models of the primary visual cortex. Then\, we will explore informa tion processing in vision in dynamics. Finally\, we gonna talk about the i nformation geometry of Chentsov-Amari and homogeneous convex cones.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/18/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Dmitri Alekseevsky (University of Hradec Králové\, Czech Republi c) DTSTART:20230823T153000Z DTEND:20230823T163000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/19 DESCRIPTION:Title: Neurogeometry of Vision and Information Geometry of Homogeneous Co nvex Cones\nby Dmitri Alekseevsky (University of Hradec Králové\, Cz ech Republic) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: Saf ety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nThese l ectures will provide a comprehensive overview of information processing. W e will start with information processing in early vision in static and geo metric models of the primary visual cortex. Then\, we will explore informa tion processing in vision in dynamics. Finally\, we gonna talk about the i nformation geometry of Chentsov-Amari and homogeneous convex cones.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/19/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Frank Nielsen (Sony Computer Science Laboratories\, Japan) DTSTART:20230829T070000Z DTEND:20230829T090000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/20 DESCRIPTION:Title: Introduction to Information Geometry\, Recent Advances\, and Appli cations\nby Frank Nielsen (Sony Computer Science Laboratories\, Japan) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI: Safety\, Functio nal Programming\, Information Geometry\n\nAbstract: TBA\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/20/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Michael Roop (Chalmers University of Technology\, Sweden) DTSTART:20230831T150000Z DTEND:20230831T153000Z DTSTAMP:20260404T095454Z UID:Wisla23/21 DESCRIPTION:Title: Lie-Poisson methods for incompressible magnetohydrodynamics on the sphere [part of Workshop]\nby Michael Roop (Chalmers University of Te chnology\, Sweden) as part of Mapping the Interdisciplinary Horizons of AI : Safety\, Functional Programming\, Information Geometry\n\n\nAbstract\nWe present a novel structure preserving numerical method for Lie-Poisson sys tems on the dual of semidirect product Lie algebras. The method preserves the underlying geometry\, namely the Lie-Poisson structure and all the Cas imirs\, and nearly preserves the Hamiltonian function. We illustrate the m ethod on two models describing the motion of magnetic fluids\, the incompr essible magnetohydrodynamics equations and the Alfvén wave turbulence equ ations. For the latter case\, we reveal the formation of large scale quasi -periodic vortex blob dynamics.\n LOCATION:https://stable.researchseminars.org/talk/Wisla23/21/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR