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We hosted in Nice @aymericdieuleveut.bsky.social & A. Taylor for the SMAI-MODE 2026 mini-course on Performance Estimation Problems with 9 hours of lectures + practicals in two days All material freely available 👇 performanceestimation.github.io/Tutorial-SMA... Thanks to both of them!

Samuel Vaiter

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We listened this morning to the talk of Francisco Silva Álvarez on mean field games in a packed room!

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Samuel Vaiter

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18 Mar

This afternoon, we start with Irène Waldspurger on semidefinite optimization

Samuel Vaiter

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18 Mar

To end the day, the traditional group photo!

Samuel Vaiter

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19 Mar

The second day started with a brillant plenary talk of @pierreablin.bsky.social on LLM pretraining and some explanations of scaling laws.

Samuel Vaiter

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19 Mar

And before our conference dinner, we had the pleasure to hear Yann Brenier with an outreach talk on the role of optimal transport in applied mathematics.