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Schedule : Spring 2021
This is the tentative schedule of Mélange group for the Spring 2021 semester.
Meeting time & Place : Mondays 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (MST) via Zoom/Webex
WEEK | DATE | TOPIC | PRESENTER |
1 | 01/29/2021 | Intro meeting | |
2 | 02/08/2021 | | |
3 | 02/15/2021 | | |
4 | 02/22/2021 | | |
5 | 03/01/2021 | | |
6 | 03/08/2021 | | |
7 | 03/15/2021 | | |
8 | 03/22/2021 | | |
9 | 03/29/2021 | | |
10 | 04/05/2021 | | |
11 | 04/12/2021 | | |
12 | 04/19/2021 | | |
13 | 04/26/2021 | | |
14 | 05/03/2021 | | |
15 | 05/10/2021 | | |
Previous Semesters, including legacy reading lists
Standard paper study questions
Write a short (max 5 sentences) summary of the paper.
What is the problem addressed in the paper?
Why is the problem important?
How do the authors address the problem?
How do they evaluate their approach?
What is the punch-line (key cool idea, or “what I got out of this paper”)? This is often different for different people and different from what the authors may have intended.
Make a list of deeper questions that you would like discussed in the meeting.
Current Reading Pool
Eli Bingham, Jonathan P. Chen, Martin Jankowiak, Fritz Obermeyer, Neeraj Pradhan, Theofanis Karaletsos, Rohit Singh, Paul Szerlip, Paul Horsfall, Noah D. Goodman,
Pyro: Deep Universal Probabilistic Programming