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Stéphane Mallat awarded CNRS Gold Medal
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags 1530, Académie des Sciences, awards, École Normale Supérieure, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CNRS, CNRS Gold Medal, Collège de France, France, neural networks and learning machines, Paris, signal processing, Stéphane Mallat, wavelets on September 12, 2025 by xi'an
lecturing in Collège
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags 1530, ABC, Collège de France, Docet omnia, France, La Sorbone, Leuven, Louvain, Marguerite de Navarre, Master program, Paris, Rabelais, random sampling, Statistical learning, Université de Paris on March 28, 2024 by xi'an
A few weeks ago I gave a seminar on ABC (and its asymptotics) in the beautiful amphitheatre Marguerite de Navarre (a writer, a thinker, and a protector of writers like Rabelais and of reformist catholics, as well as th sister of the Collège founder, François I) of Collège de France, as complement of the lecture of that week by Stéphane Mallat, who is teaching this year on Learning and random sampling. In this lecture, Stéphane introduced Metropolis-Hastings as one can guess from the blackboards above! The amphitheatre was quite full since master students from several Parisian universities are following the course, along the “general public” since the first principle of the courses delivered at Collège de France is that they are open to everyone, free of charge and without preliminary registration! (As a countermeasure to the monopoly of the university of Paris, following the earlier example of the 1518 trilingual college of Louvain). Here are the slides I partly covered in the lecture.
