Schedule

Date Lecture Reading Assignments
M Jan 6      
W Jan 8 Neural Net Basics DL Book, 6 - 6.2.1.1, 6.3-6.4  
       
M Jan 13 Basics con’t, PyTorch video PyTorch Tensors Quiz 1
W Jan 15 Backpropagation Backprop for a NN HW 1 (Th): MLP
       
M Jan 20 MLK Jr Day   Quiz 2 (Tue)
W Jan 22 Physics Informed Neural Nets PINNs (skim) HW 2 (Th): Write your own
       
M Jan 27 PINN Implementation PINN blog post Quiz 3
W Jan 29 PINN Wrapup   HW 3 (Th): PINN
       
M Feb 3 Optimization Algorithms DL Book Ch 8 Quiz 4
W Feb 5 Neural ODEs NODE paper, unsteady continuous adjoint, unsteady discrete adjoint HW 4 (Th): PINN inverse
       
M Feb 10 Neural ODEs, data   Quiz 5
W Feb 12 Autoencoders DL book Ch 14 HW 5 (Th): Neural ODE
       
T Feb 18 HW help video, GPU video   Quiz 6
W Feb 19 Neural Koopman   HW 6 (Th): NODE with AE
       
M Feb 24 Regularization DL Book Ch 7 Quiz 7
W Feb 26 Convolutional NN   HW 7 (Th): Neural Koopman
       
M Mar 3 Convolutional NN DL Book Ch 9  
W Mar 5 Convolutional NN   Midterm (Th)
       
M Mar 10 Graph Networks Math of GNNs Quiz 8
W Mar 12 Graph Networks PyTorch Geometric HW 8 (Th): CNN SuperRes w/ physics
       
M Mar 17 Symbolic Regression PySR Quiz 9
W Mar 19 Kolmogorov-Arnold KAN paper HW 9 (Th): GNN Newtonian Physics
       
M Mar 24 Fourier Neural Operators paper Quiz 10
W Mar 26 Diffusion Models Medium Post Project Proposal, midterm rework
       
M Mar 31 Recurrent Neural Nets Effectiveness of RNNs Quiz 11
W Apr 2 Deep RL    
       
M Apr 7 No Class (Transformers videos)   Quiz 12
W Apr 9 Final Review    
       
M Apr 14 Project Presentations    
W Apr 16 Project Presentations