8:45 - 9:00
Organizers
9:00 - 9:40
Prof. Paulo Tabuada
9:40 - 10:20
Prof. Anant Sahai
10:20 - 10:40
Coffee Break
10:40- 11:20
Prof. Elad Hazan
11:20- 12:00
State-Space Models as Foundation Models for Knowledge Discovery in the Genome
Dr. Antonio Orvieto
12:00 - 13:00
Lunch Break
13:00- 13:40
Understanding Attention: from Rank Collapse to Layer Norm, and Positional Encoding
Prof. Ali Jadbabaie
13:40- 14:20
Controlling with Natural Language
Dr. Carmen Amo Alonso
14:20 - 14:40
Coffee Break
14:40- 15:20
AI Safety Filters: the Control Theory of Safe Intelligence
Prof. Jaime Fernandez Fisac
15:20- 16:00
Safety Guardrails for LLM-Enabled Robots
Prof. George Pappas
16:00 - 17:00
Panel Discussion