As a PhD candidate, you will conduct independent research on mechanistic interpretability. This is a relatively new field, so there is substantial room to contribute. This can be done for various types of AI models (e.g., transformers, GNNs, etc), and/or in the context of various applications, ranging from social network analysis to molecular simulation; as long as the data contains ground truth explanations, we can evaluate the new methods we propose.

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to three UvA researchers. The laureates are: Ekaterina Shutova (Towards globally accessible language technology and its alignment to cultural contexts (CulturAL)), Antonia Rowlinson and Corentin Coulais. These prestigious subsidies are personal and amount to approximately 2 million euros per project.

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

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