🚀 The final day of the ELLIS FoMo Winter School 2025 featured talks by Wolfram Burgard and Amir Zamir, which inspired some participants to reflect and encouraged others to initiate further discussions. It was a great pleasure organizing this year's FoMo winter school!

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🚀 We had inspiring talks by Fahad Khan and Rita Cucchiara on the third day of the FoMo Winter School 2025. Following that, 28 posters on different Foundation Models topics were showcased at the poster session, which is combined with networking drinks

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🚀 Under the recently established research theme on Table Representation Learning, @madelonhulsebos.bsky.social (CWI), @iacercalixto.bsky.social (Amsterdam UMC), Michael Cochez (VU) & Andrew Yates (UvA) organized a workshop focusing on representation learning and generative models

🚀 A recap of the 2025 ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models kickoff. The event featured prominent keynote speakers, including Jenia Jitsev, YukiAsano & Sagar Vaze. The participants received a warm and sunny welcome at the reception held on the rooftop of the Amsterdam Lookout

📢 New ELLIS Scholars and Fellows Accepted via the 2024 Amsterdam Unit Nomination

🚀Becoming an ELLIS Fellow or Scholar is a significant achievement. It represents scientific excellence, a commitment to societal impact, and global collaboration.

🚀 Had an amazing time at the @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social for the Workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data, presenting how ambiguity impacts performance in Text2SQL evaluation 😶‍🌫️

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Join Us for an Exciting Hackathon on Equivariant Neural Fields (ENFs) & Geometry-Grounded Representations! ✨

The Deep Thinking Hour, ELLIS unit Amsterdam & the New Theory joint forces, and host a hackathon focused on ENFs and geometry-grounded representations

📢 The Computational Linguistics Seminar series: the Interplay between Language and Reasoning is scheduled for Thursday, February 6th, 2025 (16:30) and will feature Raffaella Bernardi, University of Trento ✨

📍 L0.06 of LAB42 UvA (live streaming on Zoom 🌍)

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📢 The application deadline has been extended to Friday, 7 February 2025 (23:59 CET), giving applicants more time to finalize their submissions. There are limited spots left, so apply now!

You're invited to ✨ the Mini-Workshop on the theme of Multilingual NLP (on the occasion of Rochelle Choenni's PhD defense) organised by the Computational Linguistics Seminar ✨

📆 Wednesday, 22 January 2025
⏰ 16:00-18:00
📍 OMHP C0.23 at Oude Manhuispoort 4-6, Amsterdam

📢 There is still time to submit your application for the 2nd ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models in 2025 which will be held from 18-21 March 2025 in Amsterdam!

Join us on 27 Feb in Amsterdam for the ELLIS workshop on Representation Learning and Generative Models for Structured Data ✨

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Inspiring talks by @eisenjulian.bsky.social, @neuralnoise.com, Frank Hutter, Vaishali Pal, TBC.

We welcome extended abstracts until 31 Jan!

We are excited to announce the 2nd ELLIS Winter School on Foundation Models in 2025, 18-21 March in Amsterdam. Secure your spot! ✨

🔗 Visit ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/events...

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✨ NeurIPS Fest 2024: #ELLISunitAmsterdam vibrant gathering of AI/ML researchers from all over the Netherlands bringing together 120 participants, showcasing 25 posters

🔗https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/news-/neurips-fest-2024-a-vibrant-gathering-of-ai-ml-researchers-across-the-netherlands/

Yesterday the Amsterdam Causality Meeting took place at LAB42, hosted by @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social and co-organized by @smaglia.bsky.social 💥

We attended inspiring talks by @rmassidda.it , currently visiting AMLab, and @phillip-lippe.bsky.social 🤩

👩‍💻 Slides: amscausality.github.io/upcoming/ 👩‍💻

Yesterday @ellisamsterdam.bsky.social hosted the yearly NeurIPS-Fest, a pre-party for NeurIPS with a keynote talk, poster session, drinks and bites! 🍺🍻

The keynote was by @canaesseth.bsky.social , who talked about "Diffusion, Flows and other stories", presenting his 5 papers accepted at NeurIPS! 💥

📢 The next Amsterdam Causality Meeting supported by the #ELLISunitAmsterdam will take place on Wednesday!

📅 December 4th
⏰ 14.30-17.30
📍 Lab 42 in L3.36
🔗 amscausality.github.io/upcoming/

Come and join us! 🚀✨

🔍 Our latest blog features the HAVA-Lab, the University of Amsterdam’s first interdisciplinary lab involving all its 7 faculties, highlighting the significance of collaboration in addressing complex societal challenges ✨

🔗 Read the blog here: ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/ellis/news-/ha… pic.x.com/EZFGHvEB0C