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INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY Area of Advance | Welcome to the June newsletterThe spring term is over and many of us are looking forward to summer and vacation. Many exciting summer events are coming up, and some are already underway. For example, you can read about the Girls Code Club that started last week. After midsummer, the Almedalen Week kicks off, where representatives from Chalmers will participate in several programme events. Chalmers will also arrange a seminar on 27 June, which you can follow on site or online! In August, we can look forward to a couple of exciting talks on AI at Frihamnsdagarna in Gothenburg. This is the last
newsletter
before the summer holidays. We will be back in late August. If you have any suggestions on content, you are welcome to send us an email! Until then, we wish you all a nice summer and a joyful Midsummer! Best regards,
The ICT team News | Events | Calls | Vacancies |
4th annual Girls Code Club officially launchedLast Thursday, 13 June, was the kick-off for CSE's annual programming workshop for
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highschool students, Girls code club! The programme is running for the fourth year in a row, and this year 54 girls have been invited to spend three weeks diving into the world of coding. One of them is Saida who found out about the workshop through a poster at school. "So far it has been really interesting and fun and I really like the teacher Fransisco", she says. Read more about Girls code club here. In the picture from the left: Olivia, Saida and Suheyla. |
Grand Finale of the Creative Code ProjectOn Thursday, June 5, the grand finale of the Creative Code project took place at the Museum of World Culture, where participants showcased the music they crafted through coding. This event was a culmination of 10 weeks of work and creativity for 16 girls between the ages of 11-15. One of the key figures behind the project is Jasmina from IDSE. Reflecting on the event, she shared her enthusiasm: "The concert at the Museum was amazing! The girls were really excited to perform the music they made. It is beautiful to see so many happy, proud faces and it is a fantastic feeling to see how much they have grown through the Creative Coding project," says Jasmina. Looking ahead, Creative Coding will return next year with a 10-week project aimed at teaching young girls how to create music through coding. "We look forward to meeting a new group of girls for next year’s Creative Coding run. We are all very grateful for this meaningful, empowering experience and we would like to thank GENIE, the CSE department, and Universeum for supporting this project," Jasmina concludes.
Read more about Creative Code here.
Photo: Maryam Barari |
AI can control pricing for charging stations
As electric vehicles become more common, the demand for fast charging stations rapidly increases. At the same time, interest in the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in shaping electricity prices is growing.
| | | Se Chalmers diskutera teknikutveckling och konkurrenskraft i Almedalen
Missa inte Chalmers Almedalen-seminarium "Teknikens roll – vår undergång eller räddning?", där högskolans högsta ledning diskuterar tekniska universitet och svensk konkurrenskraft med nyckelpersoner från bland annat Volvo Group, Spotify och de båda politiska blocken. Öppet för alla på plats i Visby eller streamat via webben. Kom själv och glöm inte att berätta för andra som kan vara intresserade!
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Watch Chalmers' seminar
on technology from Almedalen Don't miss Chalmers' Almedalen seminar "The role of technology – our demise or salvation?" where the university's top management discusses the role of technical universities and Swedish competitiveness with key figures from Volvo Group, Spotify, and representatives from both political blocs. Open to everyone on-site in Visby or streamed online. Come yourself and don’t forget to spread the word to others who might be interested! | | | | | | | Seminar, Interpretable AI:
Toward Concept-Based Explanations for Intelligent Systems
Speaker: Sonia Chernova, Georgia Institute of Technology
Black-box AI systems are increasingly being deployed to help end-users with commonplace tasks. To increase the transparency of these black-box models, researchers have developed numerous techniques to provide explanations of agent decision making. A popular approach towards non-expert friendly explanations has been to attribute higher-level “concepts” to an agent’s decision making. In this talk, I will discuss the application of concept-based explanations for sequential decision-making systems in particular, which are relatively less explored in the literature. Additionally, I will discuss how concept-based explanations may not only benefit the end-user but also benefit the AI agent.
Sonia Chernova is an Associate Professor at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech.
Location: EC, Chalmers Campus Johanneberg
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Workshop of the CHAIR theme:
Large Language Models for Mathematics and Programming
Today, large language models are used in a range of areas. In this workshop we will focus on their use in mathematics and programming. In particular, LLMs can augment proof assistants, helping users to go from mathematics described informally in English to representations that can be checked by the proof assistant (autoformalisation). Proofs in proof assistants resemble programs, so generating proof-scripts is not too dissimilar from program synthesis, which is also a topic of this workshop. Here, we might not only want to synthesise programs in a given language, but perhaps even augment the language with new constructs, abstractions and functions. As this is quite a recent direction of research, we have an exciting lineup of young researchers presenting their work in these areas.
Confirmed speakers:
Emily First, UC San Diego
Alex Gu, MIT
Wenda Li, University of Edinburgh
Theo X. Olaussson, MIT
Gabriel Poesia, Stanford
Location: OOTO 4:an, Chalmers Campus Johanneberg
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CSE colloquium: Recipes to Make Sustainable Machine Learning
Speaker: Carla Fabiana Chiasserini, Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Italien
Time: Aug 26 at 12.00-13:00
Venue: TBD
The training and execution of Machine Learning (ML) models pose relevant challenges, as they often require substantial computational and energy resources. To mitigate the ML footprint on the computational resources of single network nodes, new distributed ML paradigms have emerged, as they can distribute the computational load across different network nodes, besides providing better privacy preservation. However, despite such advantages, distributed ML too may face significant hurdles, namely, (i) slower execution of the ML training or inference, and (ii) high bandwidth consumption on the links connecting the participating network nodes whenever the output of intermediate processing has to be transferred from one node contributing to the ML pipeline to another. In this talk, we discuss such issues and how they can be solved by leveraging dynamic neural networks.
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2024 Machine Learning for Materials and Molecular Discoveries Symposium
Time: Aug 26 at 13:00 - Aug 28 at 12:00
Venue: Pascal, Lindholmen
Last date for registration: 11 August 2024 At this symposium, we seek to highlight some of the key research developments at the interface of machine learning and materials of the past couple of years, focusing on the following themes: - Generative AI for Materials and Molecules
- ML-accelerated Simulations
- Automation Experiments, and Machine Learning
- Foundation Models for Materials and Molecules
Speakers: - Kersti Hermansson, Professor Uppsala University
- Berend Smit, Professor EPFL
- Erik Berg, Professor Uppsala University
- Rafael Gómez-Bombarelli, Associate Professor MIT
| In Swedish: Chalmers på Frihamnsdagarna
| AI i klassrummet: hur rustar vi för framtiden?Skolelever och studenter använder alltmer generativ AI, till exempel för att skriva texter, lösa matematikproblem och för att koda. Rätt använda kan system som ChatGpt, Gemini, GitHub och Copilot hjälpa eleverna att lära sig mer och gå på djupet i sitt kunskapssökande. Men de nya teknikerna innebär även risker som försämrat lärande och fusk, liksom säkerhetsrisker när information delas med företagen bakom verktygen. Karl de Fine Licht är doktor i praktisk filosofi och docent i teknik och etik. Han är ordförande för Chairs etikkommitté, och
koordinerar en rad av de initiativ som gäller AI och den högre utbildningen på Chalmers.
Plats: Tältscen Ingrid, Bananpiren, Göteborg
| | | | | Hur skapar vi AI-system som stärker demokratin?
AI kan användas för att skapa fejkade nyheter, men också för motvikten: att upprätthålla och stärka trovärdiga källor i samhället. Genom att kombinera ”modern” och ”traditionell” AI skulle vi kunna bygga system som ger helt nya möjligheter, för vem som helst, att hitta validerad information som idag ligger begravd under enorma datamängder.
Medverkande: - Moa Johansson, docent, datavetenskap och AI, Chalmers.
- Staffan Truvé, teknikchef och medgrundare, Recorded Future.
- Anders Sundell, docent, statsvetenskap, Göteborgs universitet
- Moderator: Fredrik Johansson, docent, datavetenskap och AI, samt forskningsrådgivare på Chair.
Plats: Tältscen Ebbe, Bananpiren, Göteborg
| | | | | AI Ethics with James Miller:
Adam Smith meets AI Doomers
This talk examines the paradox of free markets, which have driven prosperity yet now accelerate our approach toward potentially catastrophic artificial superintelligence. I argue that even staunch free-market advocates shouldn't trust markets to handle the development of superintelligence, and even with government regulation, we are unlikely to achieve a good outcome. James Miller is a Professor of Economics at Smith College. He holds a PhD from the University of Chicago and a J.D. from Stanford University.
Location: Zoom, register to receive the link. | | | | | SCILIFELAB GOTHENBURG
The Disruptive Role of Data and AI in the Life Sciences
A Joint Conference between DDLS, WASP and WASP-HS
The conference will focus on different aspects of research where collaboration over scientific domains is essential and will explore the following topics:
- How data- and AI-driven research is shaping the future of life science
- Development of new approaches to human-in-the-loop technologies and their use
- The need for studies at the intersection of society, AI, and data driven life sciences
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Workshop of the CHAIR theme:
AI Structured Learning 2024 Workshop
Welcome 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.
In this workshop 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?
Confirmed speakers:
- José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, University of Cambridge
- Aasa Feragen, DTU
- Rianne van den Berg, Microsoft Research AI4Science
- Erik Bekkers, University of Amsterdam
Location: A Working Lab, Johanneberg Science Park
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Call for abstracts:
Swedish Transport Research ConferenceWelcome to the 13th annual Swedish transport research conference!
The 2024 conference will be arranged in Gothenburg 16-17 October in collaboration between University of Gothenburg and Chalmers University of Technology.
The conference is a meeting place for transport researchers active in Sweden or addressing topics set in a Swedish context and it covers all traffic modes and all transport related research questions. It welcomes contributions from all disciplines and areas covering analysis, understanding, design, planning and evaluation of the transport system.
| | | | Ansökan till Renovas miljöstipendium 2024 öppen
Renova donerar årligen 100 000 kronor till ett forskningsstipendium för doktorander och unga forskare vid Chalmers, inom alla vetenskapsområden. Forskningen ska bedrivas inom miljöområdet och ha anknytning till Renovas verksamhet. Stipendiet koordineras av Wexsus, och deadline för ansökan är 23:e augusti.
| | | Apply for Renova
Environmental Scholarship
Renova donates a yearly scholarship worth SEK 100,000 to PhD students and young researchers* at Chalmers who are working in environmental research relevant to Renova's operations. Since 2024 the scholarship is coordinated by Wexsus. The deadline is 23 August.
| | | | | IVA:s 100-lista 2024 öppen:
innovation genom tvärvetenskap
IVA har öppnat nomineringen till 100-listan 2024. I år söker man ”forskare och forskarteam inom teknik eller ekonomi som arbetar tvärvetenskapligt för att lösa samhällsproblem och stärka näringslivets konkurrenskraft.” Listan ska visa de utvalda projekten och öka möjligheterna till nyttiggörande genom kontakter med näringsliv, offentlig förvaltning och andra intressenter. | | | IVA’s 100 List open: Innovation through InterdisciplinarityIVA has opened nominations for the 100 List 2024. This year, they seek "researchers and teams in engineering or economics who work interdisciplinarily to solve societal problems and enhance business competitiveness." The list will showcase selected projects and increase opportunities for practical application through connections with industry, public administration, and other stakeholders.
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Vinnova fundings: Vinnova has
presented a gathered list of all their current offered fundings. Here we suggest some of
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