Kempner Lunch & Learn

09/02/25

neural manifolds, intuitions and applications

David Behery — davidbehery@g.harvard.edu

Notes

09/09/25

Neural computation in the insect central complex

Mohammed Osman — mohammed_osman@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

09/16/25

Maximum entropy and reinforcement learning

Alex Cai — adzcai@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

09/23/25 No meeting

ICLR DEADLINE

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Notes (n/a)

09/30/25

AI Agents towards molecular interpretability of Biological Neural Networks

Arnau Marin-Llobet — amarinllobet@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

10/07/25

Introduction to Wavelets

Emma Finn — efinn@college.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

10/14/25

TBD

Sumedh Hindupur — shindupurravindra@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

10/21/25

Subliminal Learning

Varun Reddy — varunreddy@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

10/28/25

Similarity methods for neural representations / dynamics

Ann Huang — annhuang@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

11/04/25

TBD

Mozes Jacobs — mozesjacobs@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

11/11/25 Open slot

TBD

Interested? Claim this slot.

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11/18/25 Open slot

TBD

Interested? Claim this slot.

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11/25/25 No meeting

THANKSGIVING WEEKEND

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12/02/25

TBD

Yohan John (tent.) — yohan_john@harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

12/09/25 No meeting

NO MEETING

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12/16/25 No meeting

NO MEETING

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06/18/25

Creativity in Diffusion

Emma Finn — efinn@college.harvard.edu

Notes

07/02/25

A Friendly Guide to Random Matrix Theory and Its Application

Binxu Wang — binxu_wang@hms.harvard.edu

Code and Notes

07/16/25

How do humans learn language?

Alex Cai — adzcai@g.harvard.edu

Notes

07/30/25

Mesa-Optimisation in Transformers

Vincent Song — yidingsong@college.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

01/27/25

Diffusion Models

Emma Finn — efinn@college.harvard.edu

Notes

02/10/25

Test Time Compute

Emmanuel Rassou — emmanuel_rassou@college.harvard.edu

Notes

03/11/25

Dendritic Computation

Ilenna Jones — ijones@g.harvard.edu

Notes

04/08/25

Attention in Language Transformers

Victoria Li — vrli@college.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

04/22/25

A primer into second-order optimization

Rachit Bansal — rachitbansal@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

05/13/25

Zeroth-order optimization

Aaron Walsman — aaronwalsman@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

09/09/24

Minimizing Stress and Maximizing Focus: Deep Work and Organization

Ilenna Jones — ijones@g.harvard.edu

Notes

09/23/24

The Biological Complexity of Synapses

Maceo Richards — mrichards@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

10/07/24

Biologically Plausible Models

Leilany Torres-Diaz — leilany_torresdiaz@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

10/21/24

Games and Multi-Agent Systems

Aaron Walsman — aaronwalsman@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

11/04/24

Equivariant Neural Networks

Emma Finn — efinn@college.harvard.edu

Notes

11/18/24

Information Theory

George Cai — georgecai@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)

12/02/24

Neuromorphic Systems for Machine Learning

Jason Yik — jyik@g.harvard.edu

Notes (TBD)