Vernor Vinge Lecture Series on the Future of AI and Society with Ted Chiang: No Machine Has Passed the Turing Test
October 16 @ 16:00 - 17:30 PDT TILOS-SDSU Seminar: Distributionally Robust Optimization and Applications to Air Traffic Management
September 30 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT CVPR 2026 Workshop: Trustworthy, Robust, Uncertainty-Aware, and Explainable Visual Intelligence and Beyond (TRUE-V)
June 3TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Inference-Time Algorithms: A Theoretical Lens on Tractability and Error Propagation
May 20 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: A non-equilibrium phase transition with broken ergodicity leads to double descent and benign overfitting in machine learning
May 15 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS-HDSI Seminar: ComPO: Preference Alignment via Comparison Oracles
May 13 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Self-play Algorithms for Math Theorem Proving
May 8 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Machine learning for discrete optimization: Theoretical foundations
May 6 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS-SDSU Seminar: A Modular AgenticAI Architecture for Commercially Scalable and Compliant Robotics
April 29 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT ICLR 2026 Workshop: Principled Design for Trustworthy AI – Interpretability, Robustness, and Safety across Modalities
April 27Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: A survey of the mixing times of the Proximal Sampler algorithm
April 10 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT 2026 Robotics Summit: The Next 25 Years of Robotics
April 10TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Engineering Interpretable and Faithful AI Systems
April 8 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS-Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Implicit bias results for Muon, Adam, and Friends
March 27 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS-SDSU Seminar: Autopilots Need Parachutes: Reliability Lessons from LLM-Automated Embedded AI Systems
March 25 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS-SDSU ExpandAI Workshop
March 20 @ 13:00 - 16:00 PDT Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Transformers Learn Generalizable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Gradient Descent
March 13 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: (De)regularized Wasserstein Gradient Flows via Reproducing Kernels
February 27 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Neuromorphic LLMs
February 20 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Kinetic Theory Perspective of Foundation Models for Physics
February 11 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS-MICS Seminar: AI-Driven Design Automation for Multi-Chip Integration in AI Chips
February 9 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Extended Convex Lifting for Policy Optimization in Control
February 6 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST [CANCELED] Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Fantastic Pretraining Optimizers and Where to Find Them
January 30 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Safety, Representations, and Generative Learning in Dynamical Systems
January 28 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST Gordon Research Conference on Embodied Intelligence
January 11 - January 16Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Randomized linear algebra with subspace injections
January 9 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS-HDSI Seminar: Incentivizing Emergent Behaviors for LLMs via Reinforcement Learning
8 December 2025 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on New Perspectives in Advancing Graph Machine Learning
7 December 2025NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Imageomics: Discovering Biological Knowledge from Images Using AI
6 December 2025NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Optimization for Machine Learning
6 December 2025NeurIPS 2025 Workshop on Differentiable Learning of Combinatorial Algorithms
6 December 2025Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: Stochastic-Gradient and Diagonal-Scaling Algorithms for Constrained Optimization and Learning
5 December 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST Networking Lunch Reception at NeurIPS 2025
4 December 2025 @ 12:00 - 14:00 PST Optimization for AI and ML Seminar: Training Neural Networks at Any Scale
3 December 2025 @ 13:00 - 14:00 PST TILOS-SDSU Seminar: 95 Percent: Bridging the Gap Between Prototype and Product
3 December 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST Workshop on Topology, Algebra, and Geometry in Data Science (co-located with NeurIPS 2025)
1 December 2025 - 2 December 2025TILOS-SDSU Seminar: Certifiably Correct Machine Perception
19 November 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS-HDSI Seminar: AI safety theory: the missing middle ground
12 November 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST Student and Postdoc Lunch at Zanzibar Cafe
24 October 2025 @ 12:00 - 13:30 PDT Optimization for ML and AI Seminar: High-dimensional Optimization with Applications to Compute-Optimal Neural Scaling Laws
24 October 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS-HDSI Seminar: A New Paradigm for Learning with Distribution Shift
1 October 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS Industry Day 2025
2 June 2025TILOS Seminar: Optimal Quantization for LLMs and Matrix Multiplication
23 May 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT HOT-AI: Horizons for Optimization in AI Workshop
17 April 2025 - 18 April 2025TILOS Seminar: Amplifying human performance in combinatorial competitive programming
16 April 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Foundational Methods for Foundation Models for Scientific Machine Learning
2 April 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT Boston Symmetry Day 2025
31 March 2025TILOS Seminar: Single location regression and attention-based models
27 March 2025 @ 14:00 - 15:00 PDT TILOS-Cisco AI + Security Workshop
17 March 2025TILOS Seminar: Synthetic Tasks as Testbeds for Attributing Model Behavior
12 March 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS Tutorial on AI Alignment
6 March 2025 @ 08:30 - 12:15 PST Secure AI for Health, Defense, and Beyond
19 February 2025 - 20 February 2025TILOS-SDSU Seminar: Challenging Estimation Problems in Vehicle Autonomy
12 February 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS Seminar: Unlearnable Facts Cause Hallucinations in Pretrained Language Models
29 January 2025 @ 11:00 - 12:30 PST NSF Workshop on AI for Electronic Design Automation
10 December 2024TILOS Seminar: How Transformers Learn Causal Structure with Gradient Descent
20 November 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS Seminar: Off-the-shelf Algorithmic Stability
13 November 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST TILOS Seminar: Data Models for Deep Learning: Beyond i.i.d. Assumptions
7 November 2024 @ 16:00 - 17:00 PST TILOS-SDSU Seminar: AI/ML & NLP for UAS/Air Traffic Management
2 October 2024 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: What Kinds of Functions do Neural Networks Learn? Theory and Practical Applications
24 July 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Industry Day 2024
18 June 2024TILOS Seminar: Large Datasets and Models for Robots in the Real World
22 May 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Transformers learn in-context by (functional) gradient descent
17 April 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: How Large Models of Language and Vision Help Agents to Learn to Behave
20 March 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT HDSI-TILOS “LLM Meets Theory” Workshop 2024
15 March 2024 - 16 March 2024AI Ethics in Research Webinar
8 March 2024 @ 12:00 - 13:00 PST TILOS-HDSI Distinguished Colloquium: The Synergy between Machine Learning and the Natural Sciences
21 February 2024 @ 14:00 - 15:30 PST TILOS Seminar: The Dissimilarity Dimension: Sharper Bounds for Optimistic Algorithms
18 January 2024 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST Overview of the Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
17 November 2023 @ 09:30 - 10:30 PST TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Optimization, Robustness and Privacy in Deep Neural Networks: Insights from the Neural Tangent Kernel
8 November 2023 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PST Boston Symmetry Day 2023
3 November 2023TILOS Seminar: Building Personalized Decision Models with Federated Human Preferences
2 November 2023 @ 11:00 - 12:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Towards Foundation Models for Graph Reasoning and AI 4 Science
11 October 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Fireside Chat on Theory in the Age of Modern AI
4 October 2023 @ 09:30 - 10:30 PDT TILOS Seminar: Machine Learning from Weak, Noisy, and Biased Supervision
18 September 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Industry Day 2023
18 July 2023AI Ethics Roundtable
2 June 2023 @ 09:00 - 10:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Learning from Diverse and Small Data
19 May 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: The Hidden Convex Optimization Landscape of Deep Neural Networks
15 May 2023 @ 14:30 - 15:30 PDT TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Sums of Squares: from Algebra to Analysis
26 April 2023 @ 09:00 - 10:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: ML Training Strategies Inspired by Humans’ Learning Skills
19 April 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Engineering the Future of Software with AI
15 February 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST TILOS Seminar: Causal Discovery for Root Cause Analysis
18 January 2023 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST TILOS Seminar: Rare Gems: Finding Lottery Tickets at Initialization
16 November 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST TILOS Industry Day 2022
20 October 2022 - 21 October 2022TILOS Seminar: Robust and Equitable Uncertainty Estimation
12 October 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: On Policy Optimization Methods for Control
28 September 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Non-convex Optimization for Linear Quadratic Gaussian (LQG) Control
21 September 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Machine Learning for Design Methodology and EDA Optimization
17 August 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: How to use Machine Learning for Combinatorial Optimization? Research Directions and Case Studies
20 July 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: The FPGA Physical Design Flow Through the Eyes of ML
29 June 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Reasoning Numerically
15 June 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: Deep Generative Models and Inverse Problems
18 May 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Constant Regret in Online Decision-Making
11 May 2022 @ 14:30 - 15:30 PDT TILOS-OPTML++ Seminar: Equilibrium Computation, Deep Multi-Agent Learning, and Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
27 April 2022 @ 14:30 - 15:30 PDT TILOS Seminar: Learning in the Presence of Distribution Shifts: How does the Geometry of Perturbations Play a Role?
20 April 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: The Connections Between Discrete Geometric Mechanics, Information Geometry, Accelerated Optimization and Machine Learning
16 March 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PDT TILOS Seminar: MCMC vs. Variational Inference for Credible Learning and Decision Making at Scale
16 February 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST TILOS Seminar: Real-time Sampling and Estimation: From IoT Markov Processes to Disease Spread Processes
19 January 2022 @ 10:00 - 11:00 PST
