Theoretical Foundations: From the Early Days of Neural Networks to the Modern Deep Learning Era

Location

Calvin Lab auditorium

Date

Thursday, Apr. 9 – Friday, Apr. 10, 2026

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8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 9:15 a.m.

Opening Remarks

9:15 – 9:45 a.m.

Talk By

Robert Schapire (Microsoft Research)

9:45 – 10:30 a.m.

Talk By

Sasha Rakhlin (MIT)

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Break

11 – 11:30 a.m.

Talk By

Shai Ben-David (University of Waterloo)

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Talk By

Nati Srebro (Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago)

12 – 2 p.m.

Lunch (on your own)

2 – 2:30 p.m.

Talk By

Bin Yu (UC Berkeley)

2:30 – 3 p.m.

Break

3 – 4 p.m.

Talk By

Jacob Abernethy (Georgia Institute of Technology)

4 – 5 p.m.

Reception

8:30 – 9 a.m.

Coffee and Check-In

9 – 9:30 a.m.

Talk By

Manfred Warmuth (Google)

9:30 – 10 a.m.

Talk By

Matus Telgarsky (Courant Institute, NYU)

10 – 10:30 a.m.

Break

10:30 – 11 a.m.

Talk By

Ambuj Tewari (University of Michigan)

11 – 11:30 a.m.

Talk By

Elad Hazan (Princeton University)

11:30 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Talk By

Misha Belkin (UC San Diego)

12 – 12:15 p.m.

Closing Remarks from Peter Bartlett

12:15 – 4 p.m.

Lunch (on your own) and socializing