Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Courses

Sense-Making - Accounting for Intelligibility - IPAM at UCLA

Exploring mathematical accounting systems for collective intelligence, focusing on sense-making as a key component in understanding and articulating the phenomenon of intelligence.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Institutions, Innovation, and the Social Production of Collective (Un)Intelligence

Explore how institutions and innovation shape collective intelligence, examining scientific attention, discovery limitations, and strategies for fostering creativity in research and knowledge production.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Broadening the Reach of Mathematical Approaches to the Study of Intelligences

Explore mathematical approaches to studying diverse intelligences across fields, discussing strategies for non-mathematicians to adopt these methods and potential funding opportunities for future research.

• YouTube
• 31 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Learning and Persuading with Anecdotes - IPAM at UCLA

Explore learning and communication dynamics using anecdotal evidence, examining strategic behaviors, biases, and implications for opinion formation and collective intelligence.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Mesoscale Models and Many-Body Systems - IPAM at UCLA

Explores mesoscale structures in many-body systems, explaining the autonomy of continuum equations and their connection to lower-scale physics, with implications for deep neural networks.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Plasticity Without Genetic Change - Bioelectric Embryos & Synthetic Proto-Organisms

Explore bioelectric embryos and synthetic organisms, delving into morphogenetic control, AI-driven tissue reconfiguration, and collective behaviors challenging traditional biological distinctions.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning - A Survey of Recent Developments

Survey of recent developments in collective intelligence for deep learning, exploring self-organization, emergent behavior, and cellular systems to address robustness and adaptability issues in neural networks.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Physical Computation in Insect Swarms - IPAM at UCLA

Explore physical computation in insect swarms, focusing on firefly visual signals and bee pheromone communication. Discover how swarm intelligence emerges from individual interactions.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Multi-Agent Common Sense - IPAM at UCLA

Explore multi-agent common sense through mathematical frameworks combining Bayesian learning and game theory. Discover insights into human collaboration, joint intentions, and cultural knowledge acquisition.

• YouTube
• 33 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Categories - The Mathematics of Connection - IPAM at UCLA

Explore the mathematics of connection through category theory, focusing on open systems, their interfaces, and composition. Learn how this approach applies to various fields and collective intelligence.

• YouTube
• 22 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Learning via Conjectural Variations - IPAM at UCLA

Explore learning via conjectural variations, including challenges, equilibrium concepts, experiments, and applications in collective intelligence mathematics.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Collective Intelligence as Collective Computation - Future Directions

Explore collective intelligence as computation, examining principles of information processing, dimension reduction, and emergent phenomena in biological and social systems.

• YouTube
• 30 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Waists, Widths and Symplectic Embeddings

Explore geometric measures of manifolds and their applications to symplectic embeddings. Discover area estimates for minimal submanifolds and quantitative symplectic camels in this advanced mathematics talk.

• YouTube
• 24 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Large Deviations for Triangle Densities

Explore large deviations for triangle densities in graphs, including Borell's inequality, Gaussian noise stability, and applications to quantum ground states approximation.

• YouTube
• 28 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video

Volume of P-Zonoids and Inequalities for Determinants

Explore new inequalities for 2-zonoid volumes, potential extensions to p-zonoids, and related determinant inequalities. Delve into Minkowski sums, projections, and support functions in this advanced mathematics lecture.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• On-Demand
• Free Video