Dear VSC users and friends, just this week it was announced that the founding fathers of neural networks & deep learning have been awarded this year's Nobel prize in physics, since the methods they developed are absolutely relevant in furthering science and innovation. In today's academic and technology driven world it has become essential to understand the basic concepts of deep learning. We are giving anyone who is interested (and quick enough to register) the chance to do so for free: Introduction to Deep Learning 21.-22.10.2024, 09:00-16:30 CEST (Zoom) https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-10 Deep Learning (DL) has enjoyed a surge in popularity during the last decade. This is mainly owed to the fact that DL is computationally quite expensive and needs vast amounts of data to train useful models. Both, computational resources and large datasets have become more readily available in recent years, leading to breakthroughs in DL applications. This course aims at interested participants from all domains, who have not yet jumped on the bandwagon of the DL trend. The course will cover the basic principles of fully connected neural networks, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for computer vision, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) for text or speech recognition, transfer learning to leverage pretrained models, and touch on large language models (LLMs) which have become all the rage in the past year. Course description and registration: https://events.vsc.ac.at/e/DL-2024-10 Hurry up to grab your seat, registration closes on Wednesday, 16 October. All VSC training events: https://vsc.ac.at/training Best regards, VSC training team