8:30 - 8:40
Organizers
8:40 - 9:20
Prof. Paulo Tabuada
9:20 - 10:00
Understanding Attention: from Rank Collapse to Layer Norm, and Positional Encoding
Prof. Ali Jadbabaie
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30- 11:10
Prof. Elad Hazan
11:15- 11:55
State-Space Models as Foundation Models for Knowledge Discovery in the Genome
Dr. Antonio Orvieto
12:00 - 13:30
Lunch Break
13:30- 14:10
AI Safety Filters: the Control Theory of Safe Intelligence
Prof. Jaime Fernandez Fisac
14:10- 14:50
Controlling Natural Language Generation
Dr. Carmen Amo Alonso
14:50- 15:30
Safety Guardrails for LLM-Enabled Robots
Prof. George Pappas
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee Break
16:00 - 17:00
Panel Discussion