I had the honor to deliver the Arnold Lecture 2024 on October 3, at Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA, USA. The talk was aimed at a general audience, and my topic was The magic of math: three-dimensional X-ray vision. Here are my talk slides: PDF 140MB. I got excellent questions from the crowd, and this
I delivered a public talk on the mathematics of AI – in a Cleveland church turned into a lecture hall of Case Western Reserve University! A bit different vibe than in usual venues. 😂 And I guess I was kind of preaching to the choir… My title was How does AI detect cats in photos
I gave a public talk about the math of artificial intelligence (AI) at MoMath on September 19, 2024. My goal was two-fold: first of all, to show that modern AI methods are based on elementary school mathematics such as addition and multiplication. Second, I wanted to give audience an idea about “convolution”, the key ingredient
I had the pleasure to deliver a public talk at the National Museum of Mathematics on September 12, 2024. My topic was the mathematics of photography, which could be discussed from many points of view. Here I focused on changing the appearance of photos by altering their pixel values. Namely, in modern computers and smartphones
I had the honor to deliver a keynote address in the Science on Stage Festival in Turku, Finland, on August 15,2024. The title of the talk was The magic of math: three-dimensional X-ray vision. You can see the recording in YouTube. The lecture slides are available here in PDF format. Abstract: In the 1970’s, a
I delivered my X-ray tomography show at the Finnish Mathematical Society colloquium on April 17, 2024. The presentation was followed by Zoom all over Finland, and the lecture hall at University of Helsinki was pretty full, too. This was fun!
The Applied Tumor Genomics Research Program of University of Helsinki held a seminar day on October 6, 2023. They asked me to deliver a presentation about artificial intelligence and neural networks. It was my great pleasure to do so! The first part of my talk was about ChatGPT and generative text AI. I followed the
I gave a talk in the “Math Encounters” series at the Museum of Mathematics in New York City in February 2023. My topic was X-ray tomography. Now the video recording of the presentation is available! Enjoy!
