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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>This is a good seminar to be aware of (and you can join its
mailing list if you want).</p>
<p>Best,</p>
<p>Avi<br>
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Amir Ali Ahmadi <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:aaa@princeton.edu"><aaa@princeton.edu></a><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 7, 2019 8:34 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:theory-read@lists.cs.princeton.edu">theory-read@lists.cs.princeton.edu</a>
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<b>Subject:</b> Fw: Joint Princeton
OptimizationSeminar/CSML Seminar: Thursday, October 10,
2019 at 4:30pm in Sherrerd Hall 101: Charles Fefferman,
Princeton University
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color:windowtext">DATE: Thursday,
October 10th, 2019<br>
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TIME: 4:30 pm<br>
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LOCATION: Sherrerd Hall 101<br>
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SPEAKER: Charles Fefferman, Princeton
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TITLE: </span></b><b><span
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<b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
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New Roman",serif; color:#1F497D">: </span></b><span
style="font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Times
New Roman",serif; color:#3B3B3B">How can we
control a system without knowing beforehand what
the controls do? In particular, how should we
balance the imperatives to "explore" (learn what
the controls do) and "exploit"
</span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;
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style="color:#3B3B3B">(use what we've learned so
far to make the system do what we want)? We
won't have enough data to apply deep learning.
The talk poses several toy problems and solves
some of them.</span></span><span
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text-indent:0.5in; color:rgb(59,59,59)">Joint work
with Princeton prof Clancy Rowley and grad
students Bernard Guillen, Sam Otto, Amlan Sinha
and Melanie Weber.</span></p>
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<span style="color:black"><a
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fefferman"
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