| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 17 December 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Mehta paper |
| 10 December 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Time series data exploration session |
| 3 December 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Mehta paper |
| 26 November 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Databases and SQL |
| 19 November 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Mehta paper |
| 12 November 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 5 November 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Mehta paper |
| 29 October 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting UMAP, Diffusion Map, t-SNE |
| 22 October 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Mehta paper |
| 15 October 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 8 October 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Mehta paper |
| 1 October 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 24 September 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting AlphaFold2 (Part 3 of 3) |
| 17 September 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting AlphaFold2 (Part 2 of 3) |
| 10 September 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting AlphaFold2 (Part 1 of 2) |
| 3 September 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 27 August 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 20 August 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Project update week |
| 13 August 2021 11:00 AM, Zoom |
Perspectives on Data Science in Canada Christian Farfan-Centeno discusses perspectives on Data Science in Canada |
| 6 August 2021 02:00 PM, Zoom |
Working with data @Unity (2pm) Chat with Chad Gu |
| 30 July 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 23 July 2021 11:00 AM, Zoom |
Exploring career options in Data landscape (Part 2) Sabya Dasgupta, previously a post-doc in Physics at UofT and now senior manager at Loblaw Companies, discusses his thoughts on career paths in the field. |
| 16 July 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Project update week |
| 9 July 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 2 July 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
No meeting: Canada day long weekend |
| 28 June 2021 12:00 PM, Zoom |
Microbiology, Public Transport, Healthcare.. A random walk across industries Eldad Kepten, head of data science at Clalit Research Institute, discusses what he learned from his brownian motion through various industries. |
| 28 June 2021 12:00 PM, Zoom |
Microbiology, Public Transport, Healthcare. A random walk across industries Eldad Kepten, head of data science at Clalit Research Institute, discusses what he learned from his brownian motion through various industries. |
| 25 June 2021 11:00 AM, Zoom |
Exploring career options in Data landscape Sabya Dasgupta, previously a post-doc in Physics at UofT and now senior manager at Loblaw Companies, discusses his thoughts on career paths in the field. |
| 18 June 2021 11:00 AM, Zoom |
Data Science in the SaaS Industry Conor Lazarou, data scientist at 7shifts and cofounder of flatland.ai, discusses his work. |
| 11 June 2021 11:00 AM, Zoom |
Data Science pipelines for people analytics Cofounder and CTO of Manto.ai, Yanay Tevet, discusses how people analytics can be used to solve the problem of employee attrition |
| 4 June 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Admin: email template + website/github cleanup. Journal club: 1) Read paper + figures 2) Try to reproduce main result i.e. Fig. 3 |
| 28 May 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Lenka Zdeborova talk |
| 21 May 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 14 May 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 7 May 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Advances in chess engines & discuss funding (Jeremy) |
| 30 April 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Machine learning model ethics |
| 23 April 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Google collab walkthrough: |
| 16 April 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting DALL-E (all read blog at least) https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/ |
| 9 April 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Generative modelling (GAN, VAE, RBM, transformers) |
| 2 April 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 26 March 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting PCA presentation |
| 19 March 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
No meeting: APS week |
| 12 March 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting GNN talk part 2 |
| 5 March 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting GNN talk: https://youtu.be/uF53xsT7mjc?t=75 |
| 26 February 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Coding session |
| 19 February 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting SVM and extensions |
| 12 February 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting NN training coding session Q&A |
| 5 February 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting PyTorch or tensorflow: MNIST classification exercise hands-on |
| 29 January 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Review Code for Tranformer |
| 22 January 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Review NLP: Transformers |
| 15 January 2021 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting A review of optimizers, regularization, and other technical nitty-gritty of implementing NNs |
| 18 December 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Review of RL implementations, test run training under a time constraint |
| 11 December 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Group: make modular version of spinning up algorithms, with save/load/visualize |
| 4 December 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Discussion: Reinforcment Learning (RL) |
| 27 November 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Watch ML Theory lecture p2 |
| 13 November 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Watch ML Theory lecture p1 |
| 23 October 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Graph Convolution Nets |
| 25 September 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Intro to the OpenAI gym |
| 18 September 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting AlphaGo as an example of Reinforcement Learning |
| 31 July 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Transformer discussion; Fang paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2002.08327 |
| 24 July 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Transformer discussion |
| 17 July 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting GAN working session |
| 10 July 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting GAN working session |
| 3 July 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Object detection discussion |
| 26 June 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Projects discussion |
| 19 June 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting InPCA discussion |
| 12 June 2020 11:00 AM, Discord |
Weekly meeting Winter term recap, Liam and Chris project discussion, summer term overview |
| 27 March 2020 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Reinforcement Learning - Deepmind's AlphaZero for chess (CANCELED) |
| 20 March 2020 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Quantum Annealers and Application in Protein Design |
| 13 March 2020 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Building a GAN together - Part 3 |
| 6 March 2020 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Intro to Transformers (RNNs in disguise) |
| 28 February 2020 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Introduction to object detection with convolutional neural networks Invited speaker Max Kharchenko from Denti.ai |
| 21 February 2020 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Planning meeting for the term |
| 22 November 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Kaggle and Image detection |
| 15 November 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Project Proposals |
| 25 October 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting RBM Overview |
| 4 October 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Neural network: mathematical background and implementation |
| 27 September 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Introductory talk for the newcomers. Discussion of interests. Orientation |
| 20 September 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting AutoPump recap and LSTM training |
| 10 May 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting RNN specific: Hopfield and analogs |
| 12 April 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Mutation-Only Genetic Algorithm |
| 5 April 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting GANs |
| 29 March 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting VAE example code |
| 22 March 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Autoencoders / VAE theory |
| 8 March 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Tree based learning |
| 15 February 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Feed Forward: Transfer learning |
| 8 February 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Feed Forward: Convolutional neural networks |
| 1 February 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Packages and a simple neural net; pytorch/tensorflow/keras |
| 25 January 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Theory of Neural Nets: Training (backprop) and implementation |
| 18 January 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Theory of Neural Nets: Graphs, math |
| 11 January 2019 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting General planning meeting |
| 21 December 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Diffusion map and/or Umap. Diffusion maps (Coifman, Lafon, 2006), umap paper |
| 14 December 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Laplacian eigenmap. Laplacian Eigenmaps for Dimensionality Reduction and Data Representation (Belkin, Niyogi, 2003) |
| 7 December 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Spectral Embedding. On Spectral Clustering: Analysis and an algorithm (Ng et al, 2002) |
| 30 November 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Locally linear embedding + DBSCAN. Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction by Locally Linear Embedding (Roweis, Saul, 2000) |
| 23 November 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Gaussian Mixture Models + Isomap. Mapping a manifold of perceptual observations (Tenenbaum, 1998) |
| 16 November 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Logistic regression, regularization. Scope: pg43-132. Section 4.4 (Logistic regression) from The Elements of Statistical Learning by Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman |
| 9 November 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting kMeans. See Jupyter Notebook |
| 2 November 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting tSNE Discussion (van der Maaten and Hinton - 2008 original tSNE paper) |
| 26 October 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting ICA presentation, discussion of projects / planning. See Jupyter Notebook |
| 19 October 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Project presentations and discussion |
| 12 October 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting MDS presentation: See Jupyter Notebook |
| 5 October 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Finish Jupyter nb, PCA presentation. Make sure you can run Eugene's notebook; Read on your preferred algorithm |
| 28 September 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Hands-on tutorial of clustering algorithms. Make sure you have Keras installed. See instructions at: https://uoftbiophysics.github.io/pages/machinelearning |
| 21 September 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Overview of clustering presented, pitching project proposals. Mehta - A high-bias , low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists chapters 12 and 13 |
| 14 September 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting Fitting vs Predicting, Keras for NNs, supervised vs unsupervised learning. Mehta - A high-bias , low-variance introduction to Machine Learning for physicists pages 1-6 |
| 7 September 2018 11:00 AM, McLennan |
Weekly meeting General planning |