Page on teaching, supervising, conferences/seminar organised, other activities ... for Tuyen Trung Truong
Some (outreach) events:
Talk at ICIAM 2023 (The 10th International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics), Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan, August 2023. https://iciam2023.org [Link]
Teach an intensive course "Optimization algorithms: theory and applications", in particular applications in large scale, at a NORA's summer school, June 2023. (NORA.ai Norwegian Artificial Intelligence Research Consortium)
A judge for the SCUDEM - SIMIODE Challenge Using Differential Equations Modeling VII, December 2022 [Link].
A video of my online talk at VinAI research seminar about implementation of Backtracking line search in Deep Learning: [Link]
A co-trainer for a team of elementary students in Moss, Norway competing in the local First Lego league (annual Lego's robot competition) in winter 2021: [Link]. www.firstlegoleague.org
Talk: "Gradient descent methods in Deep Learning", Faglig-pedagogisk dag (an annual event organised by University of Oslo for high school teachers), UiO, 10/2019.
Membership:
2020-: I am a supporter/member of CLAIRE (Confederation of laboratories for Artificial intelligent research in Europe).
Supervision:
Fall 2023- current: Mi Hu, researcher.
Fall 2022 - current: supervisor for Master's student Thuan Quang Tran, studying the Riemann zeta function.
Fall 2020 --Spring 2024: Viktor Balch Barth, PhD student, working in algebraic Oka theory and homotopy theory. I am the main advisor, co-supervising with Erlend Fornæss Wold. This position is funded from Research Council of Norway grant 300814. He now works in the industry.
Fall 2020 -- Spring 2023: Fei Hu, Postdoc, working in algebraic dynamical systems. This position is funded from Research Council of Norway grant 300814. He is now an Associate Professor at Nanjing University, China.
Spring 2022: supervisor for research undergraduate student (MAT2000) Sophus Bredesen Gullbekk on the topic: Backtracking gradient descent in Deep Neural Networks.
Spring 2021: supervisor for research undergraduate student (MAT2000) Erling Pettersen Vollan on the topic: Backtracking gradient descent and large scale applications.
Fall 2019--Fall 2022: Maged Abdalla Helmy Abdou (Industrial PhD student, Informatics Department), working in Deep Learning in medical imaging. I am a co-supervisor, together with Eric Jul and Paulo Ferreira. Maged now works in the industry, and is also an Associate Professor at University of South-Eastern Norway.
Fall 2018 - Spring 2022: Giovanni Domenico Di Salvo (PhD student, Mathematics Department), working in Several Complex Variables. I am the main advisor, co-supervising with Erlend Fornaess Wold. Giovanni now works in the industry.
Spring semester 2019: Supervisor for 4 research undergraduate students (course MAT2000): Besmira Amiti and Max Magnus Nils Rafstedt (gradient descent methods and applications in Deep Learning), Jon Elstad Maage and Christian Schive (Grobner Basis).
Conferences/Workshops/Seminars organised
Spring 2021: Seminar series on (Weil)'s Riemann hypothesis, Standard conjectures (including Hodge's conjecture) and Dynamical systems. Co-organised by Fei Hu and Tuyen Trung Truong. [Seminar's website]
December 2021: Several complex variables meeting Meeting's website
June 2022: Conference on Dynamical systems and systems of equations, at Centro di Ricerca Matematica Ennio De Giorgi, Pisa, Italy. Co-organised by Cinzia Bisi, Viktor Balch Barth, Fei Hu, Stefano Luzzatto and Tuyen Trung Truong. [Conference's website]
June 2023: Conference on Oka Theory and Complex Geometry, at Fjordane Folkehøgskule, Norway, i.e. the Sophus Lie conference centre. Co-organised by Tuyen Trung Truong and Erlend Fornæss Wold. [Conference's website]
July 2023: Conference on Dynamical systems and Semi-algebraic geometry: interactions with Optimization and Deep Learning. Co-organised by Tuan Hiep Dang, Binh Nguyen, Tien Son Pham, Tuyen Trung Truong [Conference website]
Organise informal meetings on Deep Neural Networks, University of Oslo, August 2019 -- current
Co-organise the informal meetings on Automated Proof Checking, University of Oslo, August 2019 -- current
Co-organise the SCV seminar, University of Oslo, 2018 -- current
Co-organised the conference "Mapping problems and complex manifolds in projective spaces", University of Oslo, December 2018. (Link)
Co-organised the Differential and Complex Geometry Seminar, Korea Institute for Advanced Study, January to April 2015.
Helped to organise and attended the Graduate Student Seminar in Several Complex Variables, Syracuse University, Fall 2012 and Spring 2013.
Co-organised the Mathematical Summer Meeting, HCM University of Science, Vietnam, 2008.
Organised the Algebra Graduate Student Seminar, Indiana University Bloomington, Summer 2007.
Editorial work:
2021 -- current: Reviewer board for the journal Axioms (MDPI). This is an open journal.
2020 -- current: The journal Experimental Results (Cambridge University Press) (link). I am Reviewing Editor (for Control systems and Optimisation in the Engineering section) and an Editor (for the section Mathematics, Statistics and Probability). Some special features of this journal: It publishes standalone experimental results (whether positive or negative). The journal is open for almost all fields in science, computer and mathematics. Its referee process is open: authors know who refereed their papers, and if a paper is accepted then referees reports for the paper is also published simultaneously - this is in harmony with my publishing philosophy, please see my more personal website (link below) for more detail. It is Open Access, you need to pay a fee, but then all people can read the paper for free. (You can check the journal webpage to see if you can get partial or total fee waiver. You can also check if your institution has some agreements with Cambridge University Press concerning the fee.)
Main thought about the refereeing/evaluating processes (journal, grant committees, TV debate, discussion, whatever): It will be in vain to try to improve this system if one side is given the wholesome power, and the other side has no chance even to reply to the claims made by the powerful side. In politics, it is called dictatorship. No one likes it!
To whom it may concern: if you (a referee, an editor, committee member, of a journal or a grant or ...) don't understand something someone spent time and time wrote, please do not pretend you are an expert and provide some half-baked advice, just say it frankly. It will be helpful for the society, and also will be good for you. Give people at least one chance to reply to your comments/criticism, you know well that you (either as an individual or a group) can be wrong (even in something you concern yourself an expert), and check the response objectively. Please be nice and fair to other people: the third law of Newton always applies, or if you like mystery then you can say about karma! Don't worry, there will be many people who can get the job done, whatever the job is, and among them many you don't know before. Don't underestimate the intelligence of other people, they are not inferior to anyone!
Note: Don't believe in a blog if they don't allow you to post comments in opposite to their stand. Using this criterion, I don't have much truth in such blogs. Those blogs may serve some hidden agenda. It's only a personal opinion though.