Tonight in Math club – Jason McGibbon: Go in the time of Google!

Join us for Jason McGibbon’s long awaited Go talk! 5-6pm in LGRT 1528, today, Wednesday, 3/30! Pizza and soda and knowledge of the effect of modernity on an ancient game await! Have an abstract:

Go in the time of Google

We’ll talk about some of the underlying theory behind the DeepMind’s AlphaGo, an AI which recently beat Lee Sedol 4 games to 1 in the venerable game of go (also known as weiqi or baduk). Along the way we’ll discuss neural networks, Monte Carlo tree searches, and some of the basics of this (at least) 2,500 year old game.