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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY Area of Advance | Welcome to the October Newsletter!There is a lot of buzz about Nobel Prizes and AI right now. In this newsletter as well. You will find many articles on the subjects, including our congratulations to Daron Acemoglu, keynote speaker at our initiative seminar back in February! But first, meet the cybersecurity researcher that never has a boring moment at work! Enjoy your reading! Best regards,
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“There are always new ways to attack”
Cybersecurity is more important than ever in an increasingly digitalized society. Andrei Sabelfeld never has a boring moment at work.
As a cybersecurity researcher, he operates in a constantly evolving field where the challenge is to stay ahead of the attackers with defence .
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The Nobel Prize in Economics to ICT's keynote speaker
| Our warmest congratulations to Daron Acemoglu, one of the three laureates of the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel 2024 together with Simon Johnson and James A. Robinson. We had the pleasure of having him as a keynote speaker at our initiative seminar "AI, Economy and Societal Impact", in February this year. He spoke on subjects related
to his latest book "Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle over Technology and Prosperity", co-authored with his fellow laureate Simon Johnson. | The seminar was recorded and is available here. You find Daron Acemoglu about 1:27:30 into the recording. | | | | | AI took center stage in two Nobel Prize awardsThis year’s Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry both centered around AI; the Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for research that formed the basis of modern machine learning, while the prized research in Chemistry uses AI models to solve problems concerning proteins. Researchers Stefano Sarao Mannelli, Simon Olsson, and Moa Johansson
at the Department of Computer and Science Engineering at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg commented on the prize on the University of Gothenburg's website and the magazine Forskning & framsteg. |
What do these Nobel Prizes mean for the field of AI?We asked our three researchers Stefano Sarao Mannelli, Simon Olsson and Rocio Mercado to give their perspective on the awards.
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Embedl recognized for Groundbreaking AI Technology
Congratulations to Embedl and its founders Devdatt Dubhashi Dubashi and Hans Salomonsson, both researchers at Chalmers tekniska högskola, for winning the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA) "Smart Industry 2024" award. "Great to have this prize from IVA to recognize Embedl's
world class technology! The recent Nobel Prizes for AI is testimony to how AI
is profoundly impacting science, technology and all aspects of our lives today,
and it is more important than ever to make AI efficient so it can be deployed
sustainably for a better world and healthy planet!" says Devdatt Dubhashi |
Research project on AI platform for traffic safety featured in Swedish Radio
People with reduced mobility face many obstacles and risks in traffic. To improve their safety, a research team at the Department of Computer and Science Engineering (CSE) at Chalmers and University of Gothenburg (GU) and the Department of Social Work at GU are developing an AI platform designed to support and facilitate the journey. “Currently, there is a significant lack of such data and technical orientation. If you have limited mobility, every step can be a calculated risk, and every intersection feels like an obstacle course. With this project, we strive to create a safer environment for more people”, says project leader Yinan Yu, Assistant professor at CSE. Earlier this week, Yinan Yu and Jörgen Lundälv from the Department of Social Work were interviewed in P4 Göteborg, Swedish Radio about this project.
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Gymnasieklasser fick AI-föreläsning på Chalmers
Den 9 oktober besökte ca 70 gymnasieelever från Fridagymnasiet i Göteborg och
Hitachigymnasiet i Västerås Chalmers. Eleverna går i årskurs
3 och läser en 100 p kurs i AI, vilket är nytt från i år.
Eleverna från Hitachigymnasiet var i Göteborg på ett
tredagars studiebesök och besökte även bland annat AI Sweden och
Volvo Cars.
Skolsamverkan bjöd på två AI-presentationer; "Så
fungerar AI. Risker och möjligheter" och "AI och medicin".
Erik Ström, professor i Kommunikation, Antenner
och Optiska Nätverk, inledde med att förklara hur AI fungerar. Han talade om
vikten av att kunna värdera information och lära sig att använda AI på rätt
sätt. Han tog också upp att AI slukar otroligt mycket energi, vilket inte är
hållbart i längden samt att det kan finnas en övertro på AI och att man bör
vara medveten om det när man exempelvis fattar beslut om viktiga saker.
Stefano Ribes, doktorand
inom Data Science och AI, och som forskar inom AI och medicin, var glad att
kunna inleda med att berätta om dagens tillkännagivande av Nobelpriset i kemi,
de tre forskarna David Baker, Demis Hassabis och John M Jumper som får priset
för att ha knäckt koder för proteiners strukturer. Han förklarade att
proteinernas struktur påverkar hur mediciner verkar i vår kropp. AI kan
hjälpa till att visa denna struktur och förutsäga kvaliteten och därmed snabba
upp design och test av läkemedel.
Efter presentationerna berättade studentambassadörerna Cassandra Svanbro och Andreas Lönn om hur det är att studera på
Chalmers.
Både lärare och studenter var engagerade och ställde frågor.
En elev sa efteråt att föreläsningen om AI och medicin hade varit särskilt
intressant och gett insikter han inte hade tidigare. Han uppskattade också
studentambassadörernas presentation,
och särskilt att det finns en klättervägg då han själv ägnar sig åt
klättring. | | |
Chalmers contributions at the NeurIPS conferenceThe Conference and Workshop on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) is one of the primary conferences of high impact in machine learning and artificial intelligence research, held every December. Here you can find papers with Chalmers authors that have been accepted for the conference in Vancouver 10-15 December this year. | | | Leif Asp är årets
William Chalmers-föreläsare
Vid årets William Chalmersföreläsning ”Hur kan multifunktionella material möjliggöra viktlös energilagring?” berättar Leif Asp om hur vi kan kombinera styrkan av en bärande struktur med förmågan att lagra energi i ett och samma material.
--- Leif Asp is this year's
William Chalmers lecturerImagine if we could combine the strength of a load-bearing structure with the ability to store energy in a single material. In this year's William Chalmers lecture on 5 November, “How can multifunctional materials enable massless energy storage?” Leif Asp discusses this concept.
| | | | | | Brett spektrum av ämnen
vid historisk
professorsinstallationFör första gången sedan 1943 uppnåddes en helt jämn könsfördelning bland de nya professorerna på Chalmers, med 50 procent kvinnor och 50 procent män. Detta markerar ett viktigt steg framåt i universitetets strävan mot ökad jämställdhet inom akademin.
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at historic professorial
inaugurationfor the first time since 1943, a complete gender balance was achieved among the new professors, with 50% women and 50% men. This marks an important step forward in Chalmers' efforts to increase gender equality in the academy. | | | | |
Nobelrapportering
med Chalmerskoppling
När förra årets Fysikpristagare Anne L’Huillier besökte Chalmers för sin Nobelföreläsning delade hon också ut pris till femteklassare som vunnit Chalmers årliga Rädda ägget-tävling.
Inför årets tillkännagivande av Fysikpriset intervjuade Sveriges Radio P4 Göteborg några av de vinnande eleverna på Askimsskolan (1:23:10 in), och de berättade om både tävlingen och sitt möte med Nobelpristagaren. Barnen och läraren återkom också senare i sändningen och kommenterade själva priset (2:22:08 in).
Det har förstås också varit en vecka i strålkastarljuset för Chalmersprofessorerna Eva Olsson, Göran Johansson och Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, eftersom de är ledamöter Nobelkommittén för fysik respektive kemi. Bland annat intervjuades Göran Johansson i SVT:s studio i samband med Fysikprisets tillkännagivande.
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a Chalmers connection When last year's Physics Laureate Anne L'Huillier visited Chalmers for her Nobel lecture, she also handed over prizes to fifth graders who had won Chalmers' annual Save the Egg competition. Before this year's announcement of the Physics Prize, Sveriges Radio P4 Göteborg interviewed some of the winning students at Askimsskolan (1:23:10 in), and they talked about both the competition and their meeting with the Nobel Laureate (2:22:08 in). The pupils and their teacher also returned later in the radio show and commented on the prize itself.
It has also been a week in the spotlight for Chalmers Professors Eva Olsson, Göran Johansson and Pernilla Wittung Stafshede, as they are members of the Nobel Committee for Physics and Chemistry respectively. For example, Göran Johansson was interviewed in SVT's studio in connection with the announcement of the Physics Prize.
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om AI:s NobelprismöjligheterRoss King på Data- och informationsteknik har intervjuats av nyhetsbyrån AFP, som frågar sig om AI kommer att revolutionera den vetenskapliga processen – och kanske till och med vinna ett Nobelpris. Artikeln har fått ett enormt mediegenomslag världen över, med publiceringar hos exempelvis amerikanska MSN, vietnamesiska Báo Mới och franska La Dépêche du Midi.
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on AI´s Nobel Prize possibilitiesRoss King at Computer Science and Engineering has been interviewed by the AFP news agency, who questions whether AI will revolutionise the scientific process – and perhaps even win a Nobel Prize. The article has had enormous media impact worldwide and was published in, for example, American MSN, Vietnamese Báo Mới and French La Dépêche du Midi.
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Interview with Ross King in Universitetsläraren He wants to teach robots to do Nobel Prize-level research
When will the first research robot produce Nobel Prize-level results? Will AI steal university teachers' jobs? Will the research robots of the future save or destroy the world? Universitetsläraren interviews AI professor Ross King, who has developed the research robot Eve to make science more efficient. |
AI Sweden's webinar series for partnersEach Partner Morning Session will feature a guest partner who gives a presentation, after which there will be an opportunity to ask questions. The dates for the webinars are: September 19 at 08:15-09:00- October 17 at 08:15-09:00
- November 21 at 08:15-09:00
- December 12 at 08:15-09:00
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| | | | AI Ethics with Anna Wisakanto:
Beyond Piecemeal Evaluations: Comprehensive Threat Surface Analysis for Advanced AI Systems
Current AI risk assessment methods often fall short in addressing the full spectrum of potential threats posed by advanced AI systems. This talk will explore the need for a paradigm shift towards comprehensive threat surface analysis, drawing on techniques like Probabilistic Risk Assessment (PRA). We'll discuss how to model complex, cascading risk pathways across technological, social, and environmental dimensions. Anna Katariina Wisakanto is an AI safety researcher and strategist at the Center for AI Risk Management & Alignment (CARMA), where she heads the Comprehensive Risk Assessment research programme addressing risks from advanced AI systems.
Location: Zoom, register to receive the link. | | | | | | |
Structured Learning 2024 WorkshopWelcome to the 2024 workshop
hosted by the CHAIR theme Structured learning, which is held for the second year.
This is a 3 days lunch-to-lunch event with international and local speakers. We broadly cover topics related to Structured Learning, targeting specifically the following questions: - How can we encode structure (e.g., scientific domain knowledge) into learning systems?
- How does domain knowledge affect uncertainty quantification and out-of-distribution predictions?
- Can these insights enable us to solve problems in a data and computationally-efficient manner? We will have a particular focus on inverse and surrogate modeling.
- How can these strategies help scientific discovery?
Location: A Working Lab, Chalmers Campus Johanneberg
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| | | | Materials for Tomorrow 2024
Welcome to Materials for Tomorrow 2024. Innovative materials solutions are the cornerstones in addressing the societal and climate challenges we face as we strive to build a sustainable future. This year's conference will be about Artificial intelligence in Materials Science. Join us, 30-31 October 2024, at Chalmers Conference Centre.
Location: RunAn, Chalmers Conference Centre | | | | | Women in Machine Learning Workshop
In
collaboration with the WASP Diversity and Inclusion Group.
Are you currently working in machine learning, or aspiring to build a
career in this rapidly evolving field? Whether you are a PhD student, an
early-career industry professional, or a master's student in a technical discipline,
this workshop is designed for you. Join us to connect with like-minded women
in machine learning, share knowledge, and explore opportunities for
pursuing a PhD or advancing in related areas.
Location: Linköping University | | | | |
Welcome to the symposium Light on Life!
Join a symposium that will host international researchers including Nobel laureates such as Anne L'huillier and Steven Chu. Prepare to be captivated by a series of compelling lectures and dynamic discussions that will dive into the latest groundbreaking discoveries and innovations. The event will be moderated by Emma Frans. Participants will learn about space exploration and how scientists search for clues about life's inception. Moreover, they will have the opportunity to discover how cutting-edge spectroscopy techniques are designed and used to explore fundamental processes in biological systems. The symposium will also shine a light on medical breakthroughs, showcasing innovative approaches and discoveries that promise a healthier and longer life for humanity. Open to: Researchers and students at Chalmers. High school students and teachers will also be present. The event is co-organized by the Nano Area of Advance, Materials Science and Health at Chalmers, in collaboration with Molecular Frontiers. | | | | |
WASP Thesis of the Year Award - nominate candidates
For the
second year in a row, WASP will award one PhD student the WASP Thesis of the
Year Award. The selection of the winner will be made by the WASP International
Scientific Advisory Board (ISAB). To make the selection possible, we hereby
invite supervisors of successful PhD students to nominate candidates. Eligible
candidates for this year’s award are those who have completed the WASP Graduate
School and defended their theses between October 1st, 2023, and
September 30th, 2024.
The
nomination should contain:
- A link to a pdf of the full thesis
- CV of the candidate
- A one-page motivation letter authored and signed by the supervisor.
The letter should focus on the description of the work and account for its
significance in view of the WASP mission.
- Links to relevant project pages
The
nomination should be sent to the WASP university representative at your
university. See, https://internal.wasp-sweden.org/contacts/#university-representative-group
Deadline
for submission is October 31st.
The award
will be handed out at the WASP Winter Conference to be held on January 14-16,
2025 in Norrköping.
Anders
Ynnerman, WASP Program Director
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