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The agent perspective

How do we learn and understand the world? What separates us from machines? Yoshua Bengio believes it all comes down to our agency.
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Building meaning: dog or ostrich

How do we build our models of the world? Yoshua Bengio explains how deep learning will help machines act to understand the world in a similar way.

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Christian Offen

Christian Offen

Christian tells us how geometry can help improve methods for solving differential equations.

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Harini Hapuarrachchi

Harini Hapuarachchi

Harini talks about how work investigating the interaction of light and matter on the nanoscale, and some important applications.

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Sophie Huiberts

Sophie Huiberts

Sophie tells us how computer algorithms that, in theory, are hopelessly inefficient, perform extraordinary well in practice.

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Dragana Radojicic

Dragana Radojicic

Dragana talks about financial maths, the nature of research, and women in maths and computer science.

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Janelle Mason

Janelle Mason

Janelle tells us how computer algorithms can help investigate crime scenes.

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Chinedu Izuchukwu

Chinedu Izuchukwu

Chinedu tells us how fixed points can help improve algorithms designed to solve complex real-world problems.

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Adele Jackson

Adele Jackson

Adele talks about her work on topology, inspired by spheres, doghnuts, and the power of maths to capture intuition.

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Maths: The next generation

What do young researchers in maths and computer science work on? We find out at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum 2019.