Opening Remarks
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Program states a semester-long Simons initiative with a bootcamp this week plus workshops in February March and April on heterogeneous sources, trust and privacy, and agency and incentives. It lists seven fellows on site and long-term visitors from industry and academia, schedules tutorials on federated optimization privacy and security, an RMK lecture by Katrina on Thursday, a 4:00 reception today, and a substitute from NVIDIA filling a canceled flight slot. Emphasis is on client‑first systems design, real deployments, and weekly reading groups.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Program introduction
- 1:38Federated learning evolution
- 4:17Collaborative learning definition
- 7:17Beyond federated learning
- 8:47Federated system constraints
- 10:43Simons program purpose
- 12:15Research directions
- 14:09Workshops overview
- 17:22Bootcamp agenda








