BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos

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The Banff International Research Station (BIRS) is a joint Canada-US-Mexico initiative that seeks to bring together people from a wide range of mathematical, scientific and industry backgrounds and to create a forum for the exchange of knowledge and methods between these specialists. The BIRS Workshop Lecture Videos are primary research data in the disciplines of mathematics, statistics and theoretical computer science.

Latest Videos

Worst-case generation via minimax optimization in Wasserstein space

Xie, Yao – Feb 27, 2026
32.0 minutes

OR with a White Hat: Evidencing Privacy Vulnerabilities in ML Models

Vidal, Thibaut – Feb 26, 2026
30.0 minutes

Interpretable Vaccine Administration and Inventory Replenishment Policies via Smooth-in-Expectation Decision Rules

Bodur, Merve – Feb 26, 2026
32.0 minutes

A Contextual Problem for Language Model Inference Optimization

Nguyen, Viet Anh – Feb 26, 2026
32.0 minutes

Robust Markov decision processes with average and Blackwell optimality

Petrik, Marek – Feb 25, 2026
31.0 minutes