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- on twitter: wwtns@TheoreticalWide - on Youtube</font></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4">The </font><span style="font-size:large">VVTNS</span><span style="font-size:large"> sixth season</span><span style="font-size:large"> </span><span style="font-size:large">opening talk </span><span style="font-size:large">delivered on October 29, 2025 by</span></div><div style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:large"><br></span></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"> Andrew Barto</font></div><div style="text-align:center"><font size="4"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="background:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;outline:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span 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theoretical aspects of their work which cannot be discussed in a setting where the majority of the audience consists of experimentalists. The seminars, </span></i><i style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify">held on Wednesdays at 11 am ET,</span></i><i style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:helvetica-w01-light,helvetica-w02-light,sans-serif;text-align:justify"> are 45-50 min long followed by a discussion. The talks are recorded with authorization of the speaker and are available to everybody on our YouTube channel.</span></i><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:spinnaker,sans-serif;font-size:14px;text-align:justify"></span></div><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;line-height:1.6em"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-size:18px;line-height:1.6em;color:rgb(0,0,0);text-align:center"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;font-family:helvetica-w01-roman,helvetica-w02-roman,helvetica-lt-w10-roman,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;color:rgb(255,255,255)">April, 13, 2022</span></span></span></span></p>
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