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We introduce SMARTboost (boosting of symmetric smooth additive regression trees), a machine learning model capable of fitting complex functions in high dimensions, yet designed for good performance in small n and low signal-to-noise environments. SMARTboost inherits many of the qualities that have made boosted trees the most widely used machine learning tool for tabular data; it automatically adjusts model complexity, handles continuous and discrete features, can capture nonlinear functions in high dimensions without overfitting, performs variable selection, and can handle highly non-Gaussian features. The combination of smooth symmetric trees and of carefully designed Bayesian priors gives SMARTboost an edge (in comparison with a state-of-the-art tool like XGBoost) in most settings with continuous and mixed discrete-continuous features. Unlike other tree-based methods, it can also compute marginal effects.

Research Seminar Series features, Wanda Orlikowski, the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Information Technologies and Organization Studies at MIT's Sloan School of Management, US.

Programming is a useful tool in several disciplines, but teaching programming in a disciplinary context can be quite different than teaching programming for computer scientists. How can we motivate students with different backgrounds to make sure that programming is perceived as relevant? And how does this affect what the students learn? We will talk about how we can teach programming for biologists, chemists, teachers and high school students, and what this teaching implies.

Welcome to the a new Teaching and Learning Journal Club Meeting 15 march, at 12:15 PM.

Norway-Japan symposium on theoretical and experimental chemistry of complex systems

Business Mindset – Unlocking your potential as an innovator

Njord Seminar with talks by

Thomas Combriat (University of Oslo): "Cells on the move - Tickling biology with ultrasonic waves"

and

Andreas Grøvan Aspaas (University of Oslo): "What causes transient deformations in the Åknes landslide, Norway?"

MSc. Frøydis Sved Skottvoll at the Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending her thesis «Liver organoids, mass spectrometry and separation science» for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

Hylleraas seminar, hosted in Oslo

Doctoral candidate Mihaela-Alexandra Puica at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Advances in Wind Power Modeling: Merging Research and Market Experience for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

This talk is part of the Mechanics Lunch Seminar series. Bring-your-own-lunch and lots of questions.

Is it difficult to set aside time to write? The Academic Writing Centre arranges joint, structured “Shut Up & Write” sessions.

by

Alan Bischoff

From the Geological Survey of Finland

Hosted by Sverre Planke

Professor Justin William Wells, the Semiconductor physics section, UiO

The project is Co-funded by IKTPLUSS programme, the Research Council of Norway. 

Title: Key conclusions from the IPCC AR6 Working Group 2 report and links between impacts and adaptation assessments and physical climate science

Speaker: Richard Betts, UK Met. Office

Welcome to our weekly lunch seminar held in the dScience lounge area! This event is open to PhD candidates and postdocs.

Welcome to the opening of UiO’s first Byttebod for electrical and electronic equipment.

Late Lunch Talk by Naïd Mubalegh

Simen Hellesund will defend his thesis “Searching for New Physics in Resonant and Non-Resonant Dilepton Final States With the ATLAS Detector at the LHC” for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences.

Doctoral candidate Gard Olav Helle at the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, is defending the thesis Instanton Floer Homology and Binary Polyhedral Spaces for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor.

In this talk, Jan Gulla will give a conceptual overview of causality and localization in quantum optics.