Mathematics and Statistics Colloquium (Oct 1)

Join the Department of Mathematics and Statistics for a colloquium on Thursday, October 1 from 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm in Cuneo Hall 109. (Reception on BVM 5th floor at 3:00pm)

Speaker: Lev Reyzin (University of Illinois Chicago)

Title: AI and Its Impact on Mathematics

Abstract: In this talk, I will give an overview of Artificial Intelligence (AI), how it works, and how it has benefited from machine learning. After discussing how mathematicians have used AI methods in the past, I will explore the impact of current AI techniques and Large Language Models (LLMs) on the mathematics profession.

Bio:  Lev Reyzin is a Professor of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Chicago and Co-Director of the IDEAL Institute. He works on the theory of machine learning, data science, and artificial intelligence. Prior to UIC, Reyzin was a Simons Postdoctoral Fellow at Georgia Tech and an NSF Computing Innovation Fellow at Yahoo! Research. Reyzin received his Ph.D. on an NSF doctoral fellowship from Yale under Dana Angluin and his bachelor’s degree from Princeton. He is currently the Chair of the Steering Committee for the ALT conference and the Editor-in-Chief of Mathematics of Data, Learning, and Intelligence. He has also served as a General Chair for FOCS 2024, the Program Chair for ISAIM 2020, and a Program Chair for ALT 2017. His work has earned awards at ICML, COLT, and AISTATS and has received extensive funding.