Industry Seminar Series
Industry Seminar Series
We run an on going seminar series where we invite speakers working in industry (or industry related careers) to talk to our members about the mathematics related work they do, their career path and advice on perusing a mathematics focused career in industry.
Up coming Events:
4pm 18th February 2021, Online
Industry talk from Dr Benoit Dherin (Google) Dr. David Barrett (Deep Mind). They will speak about their career and some recent work (see details below)
Title: Implicit Gradient Regularization
Abstract: Large deep neural networks used in modern supervised learning have a large submanifold of interpolating solutions, most of which are not good.
However, it has been observed experimentally that gradient descent tends to converge in the vicinity of flat interpolating solutions producing trained models that generalize well to new data points, and the more so as the learning rate increases. Using backward error analysis, we will show that gradient descent actually follows the exact gradient flow of a modified loss surface, which can be described by a regularized loss preferring optimization paths with shallow slopes, and in which the learning rate plays the role of a regularization rate.
To register for the event, please visit here.
Past Events:
6pm 3rd November 2020, Online
Industry talk from Dr Sarah Gallagher, head of observations at Met Éireann. She will speak on her career and working in meteorology.
5pm October 6th, 2020, Online
Industry talk from Professor Brendan Murphy of UCD on "COVID-19 Modelling", where modelling approaches in the context of Ireland will be discussed.
To register for the event, please visit here.