<div dir="ltr"><p><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Dear AI scientist/engineer/student/</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">enthusiast,</span></p><div style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><p style="text-align:justify;margin:12pt 0px 0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">the International AI Doctoral Academy </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue">(</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><b><u><a href="https://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWAcdeda40a-34eb-c3bd-1368-93e2e46cc0b5" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">AIDA</a></u></b></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:blue">)</span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(80,0,80)"> </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">is excited to invite you to attend the upcoming semester course by <b>Prof. Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi:</b></span></p><p style="text-align:center;margin:12pt 0px 0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Statistical Methods for Machine Learning</b></span></p><p style="margin:12pt 0px 0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">This is a course about the theoretical foundations of machine learning and the analysis of machine learning algorithms. The focus is on understanding the mathematical principles at the basis of machine learning.</span></p><p style="margin:12pt 0px 0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><b>Host Institution</b>: </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">Università degli Studi di Milano</span></p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0px 0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inher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, do only step (a). </span></li></ul><p style="text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0px 0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">*AIDA Students should have been registered in the AIDA system already (they are PhD students or PostDocs that belong only to the AIDA <a href="https://www.i-aida.org/about/members/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-LPlnk839502" title="https://www.i-aida.org/about/members/" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Members</a>.</span></p><p aria-hidden="true" style="text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0px 0px"> </p><p style="text-align:justify;margin:6pt 0px 0px"><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">The </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204);letter-spacing:0.5px"><a href="http://www.i-aida.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWAa2e66789-538a-2dda-9d11-851290ce9c16" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">International AI Doctoral Academy (AIDA)</a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">, a joint initiative of the European R&D projects </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204);letter-spacing:0.5px"><a href="https://ai4media.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWA65039c15-397e-7a9e-17d7-d57448e87a6a" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">AI4Media</a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">, </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204);letter-spacing:0.5px"><a href="https://www.elise-ai.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWA5c77c98c-af2e-dc55-b555-fa21a484fd1a" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">ELISE</a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">, </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(17,85,204);letter-spacing:0.5px"><a href="https://www.humane-ai.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="gmail-x_OWAAutoLink" id="gmail-OWAcb604429-9594-1284-d322-afba46ee12f9" style="border:0px;font:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Humane AI Net</a></span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:11pt;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-kerning:inherit;font-feature-settings:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;letter-spacing:0.5px">, </span><span style="border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-var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