tcs and is geared towards a broad scientific audience we're grateful to the many contributors to the richard m carp fund who've made this series possible so i'm delighted to welcome our speaker today lenka stevarova lenka is a researcher at cnrs working in the institute of theoretical physics in cea uh paris clay she has a background in physics and is famous for the application of methods of statistical physics to problems in machine learning and signal processing in inference and optimization link is the recipient of the cnrs bronze medal