Machine Learning for PIs

Welcome to the 2025 edition of Machine Learning for PIs
The course occurs from 9:00-17:00 at the University IT and Data Center (Hochschulrechenzentrum), Wegelerstraße 6, 53115 Bonn. We meet every Monday from 10.02.25 until 10.03.25 except for Rosenmontag. Specifically, that is 10.02.25, 17.02.25, 24.02.25 and finally 10.03.25. The course format is two lectures with guided exercises every day.

Day 1. ) Foundations
- Introduction
- Supervising machine learning software projects.
- Optimization
- Linear Algebra
- Statistics
Day 2.) Foundations of machine learning
- Support vector machines
- Random forests
- Dimensionality reduction
Day 3.) Convolutional Neural networks
- Intro to CNN
- Image Processing and Segmentation
Day 4.) Transfromers and Large Language Models LLM
- Intro to LLMs
- Using llamas.

Your course team,
Elena and Moritz