Seminars of Innovation and Research in Informatics

List of attended talks: - Complex Networks Generation: From Probabilistic Models to Deep Generative Approaches (Jesús Giráldez Crú) - TES X-ray pulse identification using CNNs (Jesús Vega Ferrero) - Realtime analysis of fluorescence imaging data (Andrea Giovanucci) - How to get the best of your scientific communication skills (Carme Roig) - Probabilistic Programming for Inverse Problems in Physical Sciences (Atilim Güne¿ Baydin) - Fuzzy Horn clauses in artificial intelligence: A study of free models, and applications in art painting style categorization (Vicent Costa) - UKRI Centre for Doctoral Training in Safe and Trusted Artificial Intelligence (Natalia Criado Pacheco) - Reinforcement learning in continuous spaces and its applications to robotics (Adrià Colomé Figueras) - Probabilistic Models for Competence Assessment in Education (Alejandra López de Aberasturi Gómez) - The programming architecture of Babbage's Analytical Engine (Raúl Rojas González) - Security and Privacy in AI-based Systems (Jose M Such) - The 6 questions beyond Machine Learning to build successful Data Products (with some lessons learnt from the Yamanas) (Daniel Villatoro) - Brain-Machine Interfaces: Beyond Decoding (José del R. Millán) - Norm Change Under Collective Risk (Giulia Andrighetto) - Recent Advances in Optimal Control and Probabilistic Inference (Vicenç Gómez) - Pushing the Limits of Transformer Models (Santiago Ontañón)

1h - 1h30 / talk

This course is an introduction to the statistical properties of languages and their origins, that are often related to the need of reducing the cognitive effort of speakers or listeners. The course is primarily relevant to anybody interested in how languages (and animal communication) are and why. In this course, students will learn about a myriad of statistical laws of language beyond the scope of traditional courses on information retrieval, how to analyze them and how to explain them based on general principles of human cognition. Students will learn about the mathematical and computational models that have been developed to explain these regularities. During this journey, students will enrich their current knowledge with concepts and tools from linguistics, biology, cognitive science, information theory and multidisciplinary physics. The course is also relevant for researchers interested in evaluating or adapting algorithms, machine learning methods,...based on the real statistical properties of language. As these regularities are often the result of reducing the cognitive effort of language users, the course is also relevant to researchers interested in developing resources or systems that are easier to use or understand by humans natural and language processing tools that exploit the real constraints of the human brain.

to be determined

Hackathon for the La Marato TV3 i Catalunya Informació, for the Mental Health

This hackathon targets application developers that are interested in investigating the impact of novel SVE extensions in their HPC applications.

I have attended the full week of MICRO 2021, i.e. 3 full days of talks and paper presentations and 2 days of tutorials/workshops.

https://www.microarch.org/micro54/program/

ICCV is the premier international computer vision event comprising the main conference and several co-located workshops and tutorials. With its high quality and low cost, it provides an exceptional value for students, academics and industry researchers.

https://iccv2021.thecvf.com/overview

This is a multi-month hardware security contest. The organisers provide the RTL code of a "buggy" SoC (last year it was the RISC-V Ariane with some vulnerabilities injected) together with a security specification. The participants, who can be from industry or students, are organised in teams of 4 under the supervision of an academic advisor and they have to perform security verification, so they need to find, fix and report as many security vulnerabilities as they can. The top teams of the first phase will be invited to compete in a similar, one/two days event at DAC (if the conference will be organised in a physical form) and receive monetary prizes. In that case, the travel cost will be covered by a travel grant from the competition sponsors and the local organiser from UPC will accompany the qualified teams.

Self paced project development and weekly meetings with the project advisor.

This is a multi-month hardware security contest. The organisers provide the RTL code of a "buggy" SoC (last year it was the RISC-V Ariane with some vulnerabilities injected) together with a security specification. The participants, who can be from industry or students, are organised in teams of 4 under the supervision of an academic advisor and they have to perform security verification, so they need to find, fix and report as many security vulnerabilities as they can. The top teams of the first phase will be invited to compete in a similar, one/two days event at DAC (if the conference will be organised in a physical form) and receive monetary prizes. In that case, the travel cost will be covered by a travel grant from the competition sponsors and the local organiser from UPC will accompany the qualified teams.

Self paced project development and weekly meetings with the project advisor.

All human activities have implications on our society. Research activity not only does but also the overall research system is based on trust. Then, responsible research conduct is of outmost importance. The goal of the course is to provide an overview of the rules and professional practices that are considered as responsible conduct of research and engineering. Ph. D. students, post-doctoral researchers and everybody involved in research and innovation must know the principles and practices that define a responsible conduct and the ones that are not appropriate and are identified as misconduct. Topics include: Introduction on Responsible Research and Innovation Research misconduct Authorship Plagiarism Peer reviews Conflicts of interest Mentor/mentee relationship Collaborative research Presenting the results Intellectual Property Information Privacy

Frriday, 11:00-13:00

The ACACES Summer School is organized by the HiPEAC Network in collaboration with the TETRAMAX Innovation Action. ACACES 2021 is the seventeenth edition of the Summer School. The ACACES Summer School is a one week summer school for computer architects and tool builders working in the field of high performance computer architecture and compilation for computing systems. The school aims at the dissemination of advanced scientific knowledge and the promotion of international contacts among scientists from academia and industry. A distinguishing feature of this Summer School is its broad scope ranging from low level technological issues to advanced compilation techniques. In the design of modern computer systems one has to be knowledgeable about architecture as well as about the quality of the code, and how to improve it. This summer school offers the ideal mix of the two worlds ¿ both at the entry level and at the most advanced level. The summer school is open to everybody but previous training and/or experience in computer science as well as a background in computer architecture or compilation is indispensable.

Daily full day lectures

ACM Europe Summer School consists of a series of talks and lectures as well as practical exercises hosted by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC-CNS) and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). Prof. Luca Cardelli (University of Oxford) will give a keynote lecture on Molecular Computing. Uri Weiser (Technion) will address state-of-the-art architectures for AI, followed by two sessions dedicated to the design of RISC V accelerators, by Luca Benini (ETHZ and University of Bologna) and Jesús Labarta (BSC). Jordi Torres and Josep Lluis Berral (BSC and UPC) will cover topics related to software stack for AI, by addressing deep learning and distributed data analytics in supercomputing systems. The closing session of the school will include a lecture by Mauro Olivieri (Sapienza University) and it will be dedicated to applications for AI, focused on Edge computing and vector acceleration support.

9:00-18:00

Learn how to create and mod video games using Unreal Engine 4, even if you're a complete beginner. Unreal is a free-to-use game development engine used by AAA studios and indie developers worldwide. It can be a complex beast to get into, but we break it down step-by-step

22/03/2021. Big Data: background and defintions. Least squares: background and the Gauss-Markov Theorem. Lp-norm estimators and the Exponential Power Function that is the Generalized Error Distribution. 23/03/2021. Main characteristics of Big Data and its basic management. Important suggestions are developed for a quality control before to extract significant samples for subsequent analysis. 24/03/2021. Big Data applications: Big Data and forensics: an innovative approach for a predictable jurisprudence. Big Data for Social and Economics Science. 25/03/2021. Introduction to Exponential Power Function (E.P.F.) and Lp¿norm estimators. Comparison of the Lp¿norm estimators with the Least Squares method (L2) by simulation studies, introducing a linear regression model in the case of multicollinearity. A comparative analysis applying three estimation methods to evaluate the empirical distribution of the regression parameters is considered. 26/03/2021. Practice of the usage of the normalp package of R. Test of fit-of- godness of the model we present. R environment has a set of tools for dealing with the Exponential Power Function. In this package there are functions to compute the density function, the distribution function and the quantiles from an Exponential Power Function and to generate pseudo-random numbers from the same distribution. 29/03/2021. A Generalized Error Distribution Copula-based method for portfolios risk assessment. Comparison of G.E.D. with Gaussian distribution to financial markets and examples. Applications with R. 30/03/2021. Clustering Time Series using the Skewed Generalized Error Distribution (S.G.E.D): a fuzzy approach based on higher conditional moments. 31/03/2021. Discussion and comments on the collective project titled:"Add a new distribution (S.G.E.D) to the GAS package using R studio". Interactive lesson with final evaluation.

22/03/2021. Big Data: background and defintions. Least squares: background and the Gauss-Markov Theorem. Lp-norm estimators and the Exponential Power Function that is the Generalized Error Distribution. 23/03/2021. Main characteristics of Big Data and its basic management. Important suggestions are developed for a quality control before to extract significant samples for subsequent analysis. 24/03/2021. Big Data applications: Big Data and forensics: an innovative approach for a predictable jurisprudence. Big Data for Social and Economics Science. 25/03/2021. Introduction to Exponential Power Function (E.P.F.) and Lp¿norm estimators. Comparison of the Lp¿norm estimators with the Least Squares method (L2) by simulation studies, introducing a linear regression model in the case of multicollinearity. A comparative analysis applying three estimation methods to evaluate the empirical distribution of the regression parameters is considered. 26/03/2021. Practice of the usage of the normalp package of R. Test of fit-of- godness of the model we present. R environment has a set of tools for dealing with the Exponential Power Function. In this package there are functions to compute the density function, the distribution function and the quantiles from an Exponential Power Function and to generate pseudo-random numbers from the same distribution. 29/03/2021. A Generalized Error Distribution Copula-based method for portfolios risk assessment. Comparison of G.E.D. with Gaussian distribution to financial markets and examples. Applications with R. 30/03/2021. Clustering Time Series using the Skewed Generalized Error Distribution (S.G.E.D): a fuzzy approach based on higher conditional moments. 31/03/2021. Discussion and comments on the collective project titled:"Add a new distribution (S.G.E.D) to the GAS package using R studio". Interactive lesson with final evaluation.

In this course, you will learn how to set up and use a Vulkan application, as well as implement several key features exclusive to Vulkan itself, such as Descriptor Sets, Push Constants, and Subpasses. Each aspect is explained in great amounts of detail, to ensure you really understand what all the parts mean, and how they all connect together.

Programa de DS especialitzat en DS, on s'apliquen neural networks i packages de python (tensorflow, keras, scikit...)