You are cordially invited to the inaugural address 'Exploration and the Shape of Information' at the University of Twente on Thursday 13 March 2025.
The lecture will be in English. It is in the Waaijer building, on the UT campus, between Hengelo and Enschede. We serve tea/coffee from 15:00, and the lecture starts at 16:00.
Wouter Koolen has been appointed to the Mathematical Machine Learning chair at the University of Twente. In this role, Koolen develops the theory of interactive learning systems. His research focuses on 'Pure Exploration': sequential hypothesis testing where learning speeds up significantly if the system can actively determine which experiments it performs to collect data. "The challenge is to capture optimal curiosity in mathematics".
