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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!

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

To end the day, the traditional group photo!

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

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.