IMTech Colloquium by Sebastià Xambó (UPC) on November 9 at 12:15pm (Sala d'Actes de la FME)

Professor Sebastià Xambó will speak at the IMTECH Colloquium on Wednesday November 9 at 12:15pm at Sala d'actes de la Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME).

Sebastià Xambó is Emeritus Full Professor of Information Theory and Coding at the Department of Mathematics at UPC and member of IMTECH. He has been president of the Catalan Mathematical Society (1995-2002) and dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Statistics of the UPC (2003-2007). He has more than forty articles in Algebraic Geometry and Code Theory and has published several advanced textbooks and research monographs. The Royal Spanish Mathematical Society awarded him the 2019 medal and in 2020, the Government of the Generalitat of Catalonia awarded him a Narcís Monturiol medal.

Title: Artificial intelligences and mathematics

Summary:  The aim of this talk is to overview various forms of algorithmic learning (mostly those based on artificial neural networks), their current achievements, their mathematical underpinnings, and their likely trends in the next few years. The deep tensions inherent to polarities such as brain-mind, biological-artificial, scientific-industrial, academic-corporative, and their inevitable impact on the understanding of human nature and society, will be considered.  In the last part we will present some of the ideas that seem more promising to move significantly closer to effective models of intelligence and the roles that mathematics may play in this evolution.

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Note: Slides will be in English and the oration in Catalan.