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Experience Day Data Science & Artificial Intelligence

Study information

Experience Day Data Science and Artificial Intelligence

Date
Friday 25 April 2025
Time
Location
Gorlaeus Building
Einsteinweg 55
2333 CC Leiden

Are you interested in studying Data Science & Artificial Intelligence in Leiden? Would you like to know more about this Bachelor programme at Leiden University? Do you have some last questions that only a student can answer? Then sign up for the Experience Day!

Programme

10:00-10:15 BW 0.18 Walk-in with coffee & tea
10:15-10.45 BW 0.18 Introduction by Jan van Rijn
10.45-11.00   Break and change of rooms
11:00-12:00 BW 0.18

Black-box optimisation using evolutionary algorithms.

There are numerous methods for the optimisation of a function. For some well-behaved functions this can be done analytically, but in fields like robotics we are not often dealing with well-behaved functions. In this short lecture, we will look at black-box optimisation, in which the gradient of the function is not known, and solve this using two different methods: the simplex method and an evolutionary algorithm.

By Roy de Kleijn

12:00-12.45 BW 0.18

Lunch + Q&A

12:45-13:00   Break and change of rooms
13:00-14:00 BW 0.18

First time programming in Python

In this trial lecture you will program in Python for the first time. You will receive a short lecture in which the basics of Python are explained and a number of small puzzles are explained to you. We will then put this knowledge into practice in the computer room. You can learn programming by practicing a lot. If you get through this lecture well, you will even be able to continue practicing this at home.

By Jan van Rijn

14:00-14:45 DM0.09/0.21 Workgroup part of the Python lecture
14:45-15:15  

Small tour around campus for the people who are interested

Contact

For all study-related questions from a student’s perspective or questions about this Experience Day event please email dsai.studentambassador@science.leidenuniv.nl 

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