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SUMMARY:School of IT seminar slot: Jonathan Shock: The past\, present and 
 future of AI at UCT
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DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Jonathan Shock\n\nTitle: The past\, present and futur
 e of AI at UCT\n\nAbstract:\n\nIn this seminar\, I will discuss the work u
 ndertaken over the last year\nby a large group of people to set up an AI I
 nstitute at UCT\, and I\nwill discuss the future plans for this large Univ
 ersity focus. I will\ntalk about where we currently stand in the AI landsc
 ape\, and the\nopportunities we have to become a true continental leader i
 n AI for\nsocial good. A part of the seminar will also cover existing\nopp
 ortunities within the University for integrating AI into research\nworkflo
 ws\, which arose from a short internship at the African\nMicroscopy Instit
 ute.\n\nBiography:\n\nJonathan Shock is an Associate Professor in the Depa
 rtment of Maths\nand Applied Maths at the University of Cape Town\, where 
 I direct the\nUCT AI Initiative. I am also an Adjunct Professor at INRS Mo
 ntréal.\nMy work spans theoretical physics\, reinforcement learning\, and
 \ncomputational neuroscience\, with a focus on understanding intelligence\
 nas a dynamical and physical process. I am particularly interested in\nrei
 nforcement learning\, multi-agent systems\, and theory-driven AI for\nscie
 nce. Much of my research explores how mathematical structure —\nfrom sta
 tistical mechanics to dynamical systems — can inform the\ndesign and ana
 lysis of learning systems.  I completed my PhD at the\nUniversity of Sout
 hampton in 2005 on applications of string theory to\nquantum chromodynamic
 s\, followed by postdoctoral appointments in\nBeijing\, Santiago de Compos
 tela\, and Munich before joining UCT in\n2013.  I supervise across mathem
 atics\, machine learning\, and\ninterdisciplinary AI\, and am deeply commi
 tted to teaching and building\nresearch capacity.
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