General schedule
Contents
General schedule¶
Course overview¶
Sun, July 10: Opening Ceremonies
7:00 am UTC
3:00 pm UTC
Week 1
Mon, July 11: Basics and Pytorch
Tue, July 12: Linear Deep Learning
Wed, July 13: Multilayer Perceptrons
Thu, July 14: Projects day
Fri, July 15: Optimization
Week 2
Mon, July 18: Regularization
Tue, July 19: CNNs and DL Thinking 1
Wed, July 20: Modern Convnets
Thu, July 21: Generative models (VAEs and GANs)
Fri, July 22: Intro to NLP
Week 3: Advanced concepts
Mon, July 25: Attention and Transformers
Tue, July 26: DL Thinking 2 & Half Projects Day (Abstract Writing)
Wed, July 27: Unsupervised and Self-supervised learning
Thu, July 28: Basic Reinforcement Learning
Fri, July 29: Reinforcement Learning for Games & Graduation
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** |
Mentor Meeting |
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
** : Timing of this mentor meeting may need to vary based on mentor availability
W3D5: Final Day of Course¶
Slots 1/2/4/5:
Time (Hour) |
Lecture |
---|---|
-2:00- -1:00* |
Project presentations (slots 1/3/4) |
-1:00–0:30 |
Break (slots 1/3/4) |
-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 1/3/4
** : 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!
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.
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!
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¶
Note that these have been scheduled to be before or after the coursework time for each time slot. In some cases, they overlap by 15 - 30 minutes with projects time - please start on projects time late or end early in order to attend these events
Wed, July 13: Industry Panel
9:30 am UTC
9:45 pm UTC
Wed, July 20: Academia Panel
9:30 am UTC
9:45 pm UTC
Wed, July 27: Accessibility & Inclusion Panel
9:30 am UTC
9:45 pm UTC