Throwback on the DesCartes School 2022

The DesCartes team, together with Her Excellency Mrs the Ambassor of France to Singapore Minh-Di Tang, DesCartes partners and other prestigious guests.  

MONDAY 10 October 2022

Welcome Address by Paco Chinesta

Class: AI 101 for Non Specialists (Bryan Low)

High level discussions on why AI is a research problem, followed by 3 concrete examples (specifically: planning, learning, and multi agent systems) to motivate this perspective

Class: Introduction to Deep Learning (Hwee Kuan Lee)

A brief review of current status of deep learning and a geometric explanation of neural network learning

Interactive Workshop: On shortcomings of Learning (Blaise Genest)

Throughout this activity, students explored some surprising limits of learning methodologies, and considered ways to alleviate them.

Interactive Workshop: Who killed Daphine ??(Pierre Senellart)
A group of 20 persons spent the night in a manor. In the morning, a dead body was found the following day in the cellar… Students helped the police to discover who did it, using the power of provenance management and probabilistic databases.

Conference by Hubert Béroche (CEO of Urban AI)

Welcome Cocktail at Potato Head Singapore (slide for more photos)

TUESDAY 11 October 2022

General introduction (Christophe Jouffrais)

Ethical Debate : Automating Morality (Nina Powell & Jennifer Ang)

Students looked at the way programmers seem to think about ethics when designing “moral machines” and then considered some of the challenges of automating morality.

Class and Interactive Workshop: Not The Face! (Hydar Saharudin)

For this interactive arts & craft exercise, participants explored the socio politics of facial detection and recognition technologies, and the emerging fashion designs that may undermine them.

Class and Interactive Workshop: Creativity (Andrew Prahl)

Divided into groups, students mobilized their creativity in order to produce the best artwork… With a little help from an outside source!

WEDNESDAY 12 October 2022

Conference on « Wind Estimation for Trajectory Planning” by Daniel Delahaye (ENAC)

Hackathon Effective Data Assimilation (Ludovic Chamoin & Benoit Delinchant)

Teams were invited to address a problem with given context and constraints (functionalities, technologies), but with sufficient flexibility in the methodology to promote originality and innovation.

Conference on « Why Should Engineers Care About Complex Systems?” by Cheong Siew Ann (School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences, NTU)

THURSDAY 13 October 2022

Presentations: WP3

Presentations: WP7

Presentations: WP8

Presentations: WPX

Open Conference by Professor Cedric Villani (Fields Medal 2010 & President of the Scientific Advisory Board of the DesCartes Program)

FRIDAY 14 October 2022

Presentation: WP9 demonstrators & builders

Open Conference by Professor Charbel Farhat (Stanford University)

One year DesCartes anniversary overview

One year DesCartes WP2 anniversary overview

One year DesCartes WP4 anniversary overview

One year DesCartes WP6 anniversary overview

One year DesCartes WP8 anniversary overview

One year DesCartes WP9 anniversary overview

Cocktail and Networking at CREATE

SATURDAY 15 October 2022

DesCartes School lunch and conclusion of the school

This research is supported by the National Research Foundation, Prime Minister’s Office, Singapore under its Campus for Research Excellence and Technological Enterprise (CREATE) programme.

CREATE is an international collaboratory housing research centres set up by top universities. At CREATE, researchers from diverse disciplines and backgrounds work closely together to perform cutting-edge research in strategic areas of interest, for translation into practical applications leading to positive economic and societal outcomes for Singapore. The interdisciplinary research centres at CREATE focus on four areas of interdisciplinary thematic areas of research, namely human systems, energy systems, environmental systems and urban systems. More information on the CREATE programme can be obtained from www.create.edu.sg.

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