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Computer Science Colloquia - Sarah Dean - Recovering and Steering Belief States in Partially Observed Systems

Date: Tuesday, October 13, 2026 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM - Auto-regressive models, trained simply to predict future observations from past ones, have become a default tool for sequential data, from language to video to control-relevant time series. This talk first addresses that gap in a canonical setting and then concludes with a discussion of a class systems which captures these observer effects, recent results on learning and control, and several open questions.

Mauricio Cortés Sierra

“Sagrada Família: The Dream of a Genius, A Collective Endeavour Across Generations” Wednesday, October 14, 5:00 p.m. est Steven Ehrlich ’69 Architecture Lecture EMPAC Theater Mauricio Cortés Sierra studied at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in the 1990s. He belongs to a generation marked by the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, which created an atmosphere of obsession with structure, safety, and innovation in the classrooms.
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