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Welcome to CO@Work Sebastian Pokutta V I C E P R E S I D E N T A N - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Welcome to CO@Work Sebastian Pokutta V I C E P R E S I D E N T A N D D I V I S I O N H E A D M A T H E M A T I C A L A L G O R I T H M I C I N T E L L I G E N C E A I I N S O C I E T Y , S C I E N C E , A N D T E C H N O L O G Y ( A I


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V I C E P R E S I D E N T A N D D I V I S I O N H E A D M A T H E M A T I C A L A L G O R I T H M I C I N T E L L I G E N C E A I I N S O C I E T Y , S C I E N C E , A N D T E C H N O L O G Y ( A I S ² T ) S E P T E M B E R 2 0 2 0

Sebastian Pokutta

Welcome to CO@Work

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CO@Work2020

The CO@Work Summer School in a nutshell § 2 weeks summer school § Takes only place every five years § This year’s theme: “Algorithmic Intelligence in Practice” § More than 30 distinguished speakers

FICO, Google, SAP, Siemens, SAS, Gurobi, Mosek, GAMS, NTT Data, Litic, TU Berlin, FU Berlin, Polytechnique Montréal, RWTH Aachen, the Chinese Academy of Science, University of Southern California, University of Edinburgh, Sabancı Üniversitesi, Escuela Politécnica Nacional Quito, TU Darmstadt, University of Exeter, and many more

§ This time > 1,000 registrations and fully virtual

2 Organized through and in collaboration with: CO@Work 2015 @ ZIB

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The bestlocationyounevervisited

Berlin: one of Germany’s hot spots when it comes to mathematics, optimization, AI, etc § Mathematics Excellence Cluster Math+ and Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) § Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) § Berlin heavily invests into Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and generally Math § Very vibrant startup and innovation scene Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB) § Interdisciplinary research institute at intersection of applied mathematics and computer science. Focus: “Interactive Computational Thinking” § Three divisions: Math for Life and Material Sciences, Mathematical Algorithmic Intelligence, Super Computing Research Campus MODAL § Private-Public partnership to translate innovation through mathematics into industry § Funding volume: > €25m for the next five years, more than 30 industrial partners § 6 Labs: EnergyLab, MedLab, MobilityLab, NanoLab, HPCLab, SynLab Berlin Mathematical School (BMS) – consider applying! § Large Graduate School in and around mathematical topics § Diverse cohort of PhD students and highly interdisciplinary and interactive setup

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Thankyou!

§ All speakers, exercise session organizers, and breakout session

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§ Our technical team that made CO@Work possible at this scale, in particular: Franziska Schlösser, Gioni Mexi, Christian Salzmann-Jäckel, Philipp Wellner, and Arne Schröder § Thorsten Koch who has been leading the CO@Work effort in the past and has also been instrumental this time § Timo Berthold who is the main organizer for this year’s CO@Work § And our Sponsors:

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