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Research Fellow Candidate Presentations

Presentations by Kempner Research Fellowship candidates, via Zoom, open to the Kempner community and general public.

Date: Friday, November 13, 2026 Time: 12:00 - 3:45pm Virtual Link , opens in a new tab/window

Presentations, Friday, November 13:

  • 12pm: Yifan (Frank) Zhang, Princeton University, “Physics for Artificial Intelligence: Locality, Correlations, Phases, and Universality”
  • 12:45pm: Xiaoshan Wu, The University of Hong Kong, talk title TBD
  • 1:30pm: Yu Huang, University of Pennsylvania, “The Mathematical Foundations of Learning to Reason in Large Language Models”
  • 2:15pm: Mitchell Ostrow, MIT, Dynamical systems as a framework for interpreting and comparing brains and machines
  • 3:00pm: Peter Halmos, Princeton University, talk title TBD
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