Organisers: Hefin Lambley and Marc Truter
Time: Tuesday 3:00 pm B3.03 Term 3 2024/2025
Resources: [B] Learning theory from first principles by Francis Bach, [BBSS] Inverse problems and data assimilation: a machine learning approach by Eviatar Bach, Ricardo Baptista, Daniel Sanz-Alonso, and Andrew Stuart
Github Repository: https://github.com/marctruter/machinelearning
Week 2: Introductory Talk, Hefin Lambley and Marc Truter
Part I: Supervised learning
Week 3: Supervised learning [B, §2], Hefin Lambley and Marc Truter
Week 4: Linear regression [B, §3], Paweł Nosal
Week 5: Optimisation [B, §5], Tarek Acila
Week 6: Kernel methods [B, §7], Alvaro Gonzalez Hernandez
Week 7: Neural Networks [B, §9], Pietro Wald and Marc Truter
Week 8: Group Theory and Machine Learning, Poppy Azmi
Part II: Generative modelling
Week 9: Diffusion models [BBSS, §13.4], Grega Saksida
Week 10: Autoencoders [BBSS, §13.5,13.6], James Town
Organisers: Marc Truter
Time: Thursday 12:00 pm B1.12 Term 2 2024/2025
Resources: K-stability lecture notes by Harold Blum
Week 3: Introduction to K-stability, Marc Truter
Organisers: Marc Truter
Time: Thursday 12:00 pm D1.07 Term 1 2024/2025
Resources: Moduli problems and Geometric Invariant theory lecture notes by Victoria Hoskins
Week 2: Introduction to Moduli problems and GIT, Marc Truter
Week 3: Moduli problems, Arnaud Vilpert
Week 4: Groups and actions, Chunkai Xu
Week 5: Affine GIT, Alvaro Gonzalez Hernandez
Week 6: Projective GIT, Tommaso Faustini
Week 7: Stability, Marc Truter
Week 8: Moduli of vector bundles I, Peize Liu
Week 9: Moduli of vector bundles II, Chunkai Xu
Week 10: Moduli of hypersurfaces, Peize Liu
Week 11: Kirwan blowup and moduli space of cubics, Peize Liu
Organisers: Patience Ablett, Darragh Glynn, Mayo Mayo García, Marc Truter
Time: Monday 11:00 am B1.12 Term 2 2023/2024
Resources: Toric Varieties by Cox, Little, Schenk
Week 2: Affine Toric Varieties, Mayo Mayo García
Week 3: Affine Toric Varieties II, Darragh Glynn
Week 4: Projective Toric Varieties, Hamdi Dërvodeli
Week 5: Fans and Orbits, Tommaso Faustini
Week 6: Divisors, Marc Truter
Week 7: Blowups, Marc Truter
Week 8: Cox's algorithm, Alex Barrett
Week 9: Cox Rings, Patience Ablett
Week 10: Nef Cones, Patience Ablett