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Welcome to the LSU AI Journal Club (AI JC), a vibrant interdisciplinary community where the Physics and Astronomy Department, the Department of Mathematics, and the Computer Science Department come together to explore the transformative potential of Artificial Intelligence in scientific data analysis. This journal club is dedicated to fostering collaboration, innovation, and learning.

Whether you are a seasoned researcher or new to the field, AI JC provides a platform to explore the latest AI trends, discuss groundbreaking papers, and expand your knowledge through engaging discussions and presentations. Join us to learn, share, and contribute to the dynamic world of AI in science.

Location

Digital Media Center, Room 1034

Access the live streaming on Zoom (Meeting ID: 704 736 3800)

Calendar

All appointments for Spring semester 2025 will be on Thursdays at 1:00-2:30 PM.

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Spring 2025

Column 1 Heading	Column 2 Heading	Discussion topics
Jan 23	Kick off JC + Invited seminar	Icebreaker / (tentative: Variational Autoencoders)
Feb 6	Regular AI-JC	WAN Discretization of PDEs: Best Approximation, Stabilization, and Essential Boundary Conditions Storm surge modeling in the AI era: Using LSTM-based machine learning for enhancing forecasting accuracy Graph construction on complex spatiotemporal data for enhancing graph neural network-based approaches
Feb 20	Regular AI-JC / Invited seminar	Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution Efficiently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces
Mar 6	Invited seminar	Physics-informed NN (by Noah Thompson, LSU)
Mar 20	Regular AI-JC / Invited seminar	Eﬃciently Modeling Long Sequences with Structured State Spaces Resurrecting Recurrent Neural Networks for Long Sequences CPM-based Hierarchical Text Classification
Apr 3	Invited seminar	Machine Learning for Optical Communications and Technology (by Manon Bart Tulane University)
Apr 17	Regular AI-JC / Invited seminar	TBD
May 1	Regular AI-JC / Invited seminar	TBD

Fall 2024

When	Schedule	Discussed Topics
September 11	Canceled (Hurricane)	--
September 25	Kick off JC	Icebreaker topics: why do we care about AI
October 9	Invited Seminar	Presentation by James Ghawaly: An overview of ML techniques for data analysis
October 23	Regular AI-JC	Characterization of the Autoencoder Radiation Anomaly Detection (ARAD) model Prompt GRB recognition through waterfalls and deep learning Data Incubation-synthesizing missing data for handwriting recognition
November 6	Regular AI-JC	Topological Autoencoders A Deep Learning Approach for Active Anomaly Detection of Extragalactic Transients
November 20	Invited Seminars and Discussion	Presentation by Dr. Wang – Dep of Math LSU: KL Divergence insights Presentation by Dr. Cibrario – University of Torino (Italy): A regression problem: dealing with angles Statistical method scDEED for detecting dubious 2D single-cell embeddings and optimizing t-SNE and UMAP hyperparameters

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The AI-JC Organizing Team

Michela Negro -- Physics & Astronomy
James Ghawaly -- Computer Science
Xiaoliang Wan -- Mathematics
Maganizo Kapita – Mathematics (Grad Student)
Gyaneshwar Agrahari -- Mathematics (Grad Student)