General schedule#

2024 course will run: July 8 - 26, 2024#

Course live events: TBD — will update

Course overview#

  • Sun, July 7: Opening Ceremonies

    • 8:30 am UTC

    • 5:30 pm UTC

  • Week 1

    • Mon, July 8: Basics and Pytorch

    • Tue, July 9: Linear Deep Learning

    • Wed, July 10: Multilayer Perceptrons

    • Thu, July 11: Projects day

    • Fri, July 12: Optimization

  • Week 2

    • Mon, July 15: Regularization

    • Tue, July 16: Convnets and DL Thinking 1

    • Wed, July 17: Modern Convnets

    • Thu, July 18: Generative models (VAEs and Diffusion models)

    • Fri, July 19: Attention and Transformers

  • Week 3: Advanced concepts

    • Mon, July 22: Time Series and Natural Language Processing

    • Tue, July 23: DL Thinking 2 & Half Projects Day (Abstract Writing)

    • Wed, July 24: Unsupervised and Self-supervised learning

    • Thu, July 25: Basic Reinforcement Learning

    • Fri, July 26: Reinforcement Learning for Games & DL Thinking 3


Daily coursework schedule#

These schedules refer to the coursework time.

General schedule#

All days (except W1D4, W3D2, and W3D5) will follow this schedule for course time:

Time (Hour)

Component

0:00-0:15*

Pod discussion I

0:15-1:45

Tutorials I

1:45-2:45

Big break

2:45-4:15

Tutorials II

4:15-4:25

Pod discussion II

4:25-4:30

Reflections & content checks

* : Note that the synchronous coursework session starts at 0:00 with the first pod discussion.

Project time#

In addition to course time, each day will have 3 hours of project time. Check the time slot widget to see when project time is scheduled for your slot.

Note: Slots 1, 3, and 4 will not have project time on W1D1.

Schedule of specific days#

W1D4: Project Day (Project Proposals)#

On this day, we will have a day dedicated to projects!

Time (Hour)

Component

0:00-EOD*

Project Work

* : You will spend both the standard coursework and projects time on projects today. See https://deeplearning.neuromatch.io/projects/docs/project_guidance.html#w1d4-projects-day for more information about the goals of this day.

W3D2: DL Thinking 2 & Half Project Day#

Time (Hour)

Component

0:00-0:15

Pod Discussion

0:15-1:45

Tutorials I

1:45-2:45

Big Break

2:45-4:30

Abstract workshop

During next available project time (which could be on the next day):

Time (Hour)

Component

0:00-1:00*

Individual Abstract Editing

1:00-1:45

Group Abstract Review

1:45-2:00

Break

2:00-2:40

Pod Abstract Swap

2:40-3:00

Finalize Abstract

* : Note that this refers to the start of the projects time, not the coursework time like usual

W3D5: Final Day of Course#

Slots 1/2/4/5:

Time (Hour)

Lecture

-2:00- -1:00*

Project presentations (slots 1/4)

-1:00–0:30

Break (slots 1/4)

-0:30-0:00

Intro video & text

0:00-0:15

Pod Discussion I

0:15-1:45

Tutorials I

1:45-2:45

Big break

2:45-4:15

Tutorials II

4:15-4:25

Pod Discussion II

4:25-4:45

Break

4:45-5:15**

Course Review & Feedback

5:15-6:15**

Project presentations (slots 2/5)

6:15-6:30**

Pod farewell

6:30-7:15**

Closing Ceremony/Graduation

* : This is the last hour of projects time for slots 1/4

** : Note that these events occur after the normal coursework time.

Course Review & Feedback: We will have a post course survey for both students and TAs (will share the link in discord) - please fill it out during this time! Completion of the final survey is required to access your certificate in the portal after the course.

Pod farewell: This is just a chance for your pod to say goodbye to each other. No structure imposed or requirements here!

Closing Ceremony/Graduation: We will do this all together on Zoom.

Slot 3:

Time (Hour)

Lecture

-2:15- -1:15*

Project presentations (slot 3)

-1:15–0:30

Break (slot 3)

-0:30-0:00

Intro video & text

0:00-0:15

Pod Discussion I

0:15-1:45

Tutorials I

1:45-2:45

Big break

2:45-4:15

Tutorials II

4:15-4:25

Pod Discussion II

4:25-4:45

Break

4:45-5:15**

Course Review & Feedback

5:15-5:30**

Pod farewell

5:30-6:15**

Closing Ceremony/Graduation

* : This is the last hour and a quarter of projects time for slot 3

** : Note that these events occur after the normal coursework time.

Course Review & Feedback: We will have a post course survey for both students and TAs (will share the link in discord) - please fill it out during this time! Completion of the final survey is required to access your certificate in the portal after the course.

Pod farewell: This is just a chance for your pod to say goodbye to each other. No structure imposed or requirements here!

Closing Ceremony/Graduation: We will do this all together on crowdcast.

Professional Development Panels#

Course live events: TBD — will update