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Please use this space to organize any tutorial you would like to offer your peers.

1. Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics in Python - Bhargav Srinivasa Desikan

Hey hey hey, if people are interested I could do a 1 and a half hour long tutorial on NLP and CL using python. It'll be fairly introductory and will cover a variety of useful/common techniques. I've conducted similar tutorials a bunch of times before (PyData LA 2018, PyData Berlin 2017), and I'd be happy to do it again. Maybe if... say, 5 people are interested? You would need python and jupyter notebook to get started.

2. Introductory Nonlinear Dynamics Discussion Session - Daniel Borrero

I've taught upper division/intro graduate level Nonlinear Dynamics a couple of times before. Given the quick pace of some of the lectures by the SFI faculty and various levels of familiarity with this material, I'd be glad to lead a couple of review/question and answer/clarification sessions for any of the Nonlinear Dynamics lectures with anybody that is interested. The idea is to keep it pretty informal, low key, and organic. For starters, I propose a session on Tuesday 6/11 at 4:30 PM (somewhere at SFI with a whiteboard) and Wednesday 6/12 at 9:00 AM in the lecture hall at IAIA. All levels of expertise welcome!

In case you missed it, some of the topics that we covered in an impromptu session today (6/10) included:

• Taylor series and linearization of nonlinear systems
• Why the stability of the fixed point has to do with the slope of map at the fixed point (i.e., f'(x*))
• How to think about dynamical systems with continuous time systems ("flows") that are governed by differential equations in 1-dimension
• Why trajectories in chaotic systems diverge exponentially and where exactly a Lyapunov exponent comes from
• Floquet multipliers and diverge of trajectories in maps
• Where does the quadratic term in the logistic map come from

If you weren't there and want to talk about any of these subjects, feel free to come chat with me.