<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Tropical Probabilistic AI School — Jan 29-Feb 2, 2024</span><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
You are invited to apply for the 1st </span><a href="https://tropical.probabilistic.ai/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Tropical Probabilistic AI School</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (TropAI), held on January 29-Feb 2, 2024, in <b>Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. <br></b></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
</span><br><a href="https://tropical.probabilistic.ai/application/?utm_source=abe-l" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">APPLY NOW</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> — The application deadline is November</span> 23, AoE (Anywhere on Earth).<br><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">
</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br>The ProbAI is here to provide an inclusive educational environment that serves state-of-the-art machine learning and artificial intelligence expertise with a probabilistic twist.</span><br><br><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Whether you are a Ph.D. student, advanced MSc or BSc student, experienced researcher, engineer, or hobbyist, you're welcome to join our community of learners.</span><br><br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">With a carefully designed curriculum and a seamless blend of </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">theory</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">hands-on</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> sessions, our expert team of invited lecturers will guide you through five intensive days, each dedicated to a different topic:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> introduction to probabilistic modeling, probabilistic programming</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">variational inference</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">,</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> and optimization</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">deep generative models</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, <b>representation learning</b></span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">, and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">causality</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">. </span>We will also have a poster session, an excellent opportunity to discuss your ideas with a motivated and knowledgeable community and learn what others are doing in a laid-back setting.<br><br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We should experience a collaborative and immersive learning environment where students, lecturers, and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">teaching assistants</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> work together to deliver an efficient and high-quality knowledge transfer.<br><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
On the social side, we are close to many essential spots of Rio, with Corcovado / Sugar Loaf in the view, a distance to Copacabana, Christ the Redeemer, and the options to socialize and explore. We hope the school week will also be full of good social experiences!
</span><br><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br>Program & Lecturers</span><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Let our team of invited lecturers take you from the foundations up to the state-of-the-art, with a program covering roughly each day:</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"></blockquote><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">- Introduction to Probabilistic Modeling</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><i>- Probabilistic Programming<br></i></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">- Variational Inference and Optimization</span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">- Deep Generative Models </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">- Representation Learning </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-style:italic">- Causal Inference</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000"><span><i style="font-family:Arial">
</i><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br>The list of speakers includes <i><br></i></font></span></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><font face="arial, sans-serif">- <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=yyXvuZsAAAAJ" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Helge Langseth</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> (NTNU)</span><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);border-right:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex;padding-right:1ex"></blockquote><font face="arial, sans-serif">- <a href="https://adele.github.io/" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Adèle H. Ribeiro</span></a><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000"><span> (University of Marburg)</span></font></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">- <a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=phgBJXYAAAAJ" target="_blank">Wilker Aziz</a> (University of Amsterdam)<br>- <a href="https://ai.meta.com/people/diane-bouchacourt/" target="_blank">Diane Bouchacourt</a> (Meta, FAIR)<br>- <a href="https://gauthiergidel.github.io/" target="_blank">Gauthier Gidel</a> (Mila, University of Montréal)</font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- <a href="https://datascience.columbia.edu/people/zenna-tavares/" target="_blank">Zenna Tavares</a> (Columbia University, Basis Research Institute)<br>- <a href="https://samwitty.github.io/" target="_blank">Sam Witty</a> (Basis Research Institute)<font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span>- More to be confirmed!</span></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span><br> Visit our </span></font></span><a href="https://tropical.probabilistic.ai/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">website</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> for details.</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14.6667px"><br></span></font><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Registration Fee</span><br></font><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Students (including PhD) → 900 BRL </span><span><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Academia →  2000 BRL</span><span><br></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Industry → 3000 BRL </span><span><br></span></div></blockquote><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><br> The TropAI school has available </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">scholarships</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> if the registration fee or travel costs may prevent you from attending the school. Our scholarships are aimed primarily at applicants from Latin America, developing countries, and under-represented groups.</span><br><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The registration fee includes all courses, coffee breaks, and lunches. </span><br><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">
</span><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br>Organizers</span><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The new Tropical 2024 edition of the Probabilistic AI School (ProbAI) is </span>hosted and organized by the <a href="https://emap.fgv.br/en" target="_blank">School of Applied Mathematics</a> at <a href="https://portal.fgv.br/en" target="_blank">Fundação Getulio Vargas</a> (FGV EMAp) with the support of <a href="https://www.ntnu.edu/ailab" target="_blank">Norwegian Open AI Lab</a> and <a href="https://www.ntnu.edu/" target="_blank">Norwegian University of Science and Technology</a> (NTNU).</div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><br></span></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="background-color:transparent">
</span><font size="4"><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial">Contact</span><br></font><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Facebook:</span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/probabilisticai/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.facebook.com/probabilisticai/</span></a><br><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Website:</span><a href="https://probabilistic.ai/" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"> https://probabilistic.ai</span></a><br><div><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Twitter:</span><a href="https://twitter.com/probabilisticai/" style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://twitter.com/probabilisticai/</span></a><span><br></span></div></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>Eliezer de Souza da Silva<br><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><div dir="ltr"><i>Postdoctoral scholar at FGV EMAp</i></div><div dir="ltr"><i>Probabilistic AI</i><br><a href="https://eliezersilva.blog/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">https://eliezersilva.blog/</a></div><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(32,33,36)"><font color="#222222"><a href="https://probabilistic.ai/" target="_blank">https://probabilistic.ai/</a></font></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr" style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"></div></div></div></div>