Factsheet Excellence Programme 2018

Excellence Programme 4 ECTS

Concept ●

10 lectures

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2 workshops

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2 company visits

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2 educational trips

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2 small essays

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1 big essay

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3 presentation rounds

Learning objectives The goal of the Excellence Programme is to broaden the knowledge of Dutch and International 2

pre-Master, second year, third year and fourth year BSc​ students in the field of Econometrics & Artificial Intelligence. Besides, students will improve their academic and soft skills. The programme will consist of lectures, workshops, company visits and educational trips. Students will also write several papers, give presentations and participate in a debate.

Within the theme Econometrics & Artificial Intelligence multiple subjects will be discussed. Some subjects that will be discussed are: - Economic Financial Crime - (Im)possibilities of machine learning in the financial sector - Future of Artificial Intelligence - Differences and similarities between Artificial Intelligence and Robotics - How visual recognition revolutionizes marketing intelligence - Artificial Intelligence in risk management - Deep learning - Logistic planning

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When a student has completed the Excellence Programme he or she knows how/is able to: 1. Implement econometrics within several fields within the theme Econometrics & Artificial Intelligence.

2. Work individually or with a group on econometric issues within Artificial Intelligence.

3. Give a good presentation and participate in a debate.

A student has passed this course sufficiently if: 1. The student attended more than 80 percent of the activities/lectures.

2. The written papers and presentations are graded sufficient.

3. The student participated actively in the attended activities.

Schedule Block 3: -

17​th​ of January 17.00-19.00: Make acquaintance with the participants.

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23​rd​ of January 17.00-19.00: Opening Excellence Programme by Wout Bucker and Roel Moradi from APG about “What impact will Artificial Intelligence have on our society and what will be different in 2025?”

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31​st​ of January 15.00-17.00: Lecture by Eran Raviv from APG about “Current Artificial Intelligence capabilities and how do we transform data to process it?”.

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6​th​ of February 14:00-18:00: Company visit to Google.

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12​th​ of February 17.00-19.00: Presentation workshop.

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16​th​ of February: Deadline paper 1 (about 3 pages) in couples of two.

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19​th​ of February 17.00-19.00: Presentation round paper 1.

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6​th​ of March 17.00-19.00: Lecture by Xomnia about “The self-driving boat”.

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13​th​ of March 9.00-13.00: Company visit to Aegon.

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20​th​ of March 17.00-19.00: Lecture by ING about “The role of Artificial Intelligence in Economic Financial Crime”.

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26​th​ of March 17.00-19.00: 4​th​ lecture.

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4​th​ of April 17.00-19.00: Lecture by Totta Data Lab about “Econometric models that are used within Artificial Intelligence”.

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9​th​ of April 17.00-19.00: Lecture by Dashmote about “How visual recognition revolutionizes marketing intelligence.”

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13​th​ of April: Deadline paper 2 (about 3 pages) in couples of two.

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16​th​ of April 17.00-19.00: Presentation round paper 2

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9​th​ of May 17.00-19.00: Lecture by Accenture about “The way clients implement machine learning, robotic process automation and sensor processing.”

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14​th​ of May 17.00-19.00: Lecture by Zanders about “Artificial Intelligence in risk management.”

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23​rd​ of May 13.00-18.00: A boat tour with the self-driving boat.

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29​th​ of May 10.00-18.00: Educational trip to the Artificial Intelligence lab and the Robotics lab in Brussels to see some demonstrations of what they do in both labs. One of the topics that will be discussed is the blockchain.

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5​th​ of June 17.00-19.00: Debate workshop.

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11​th​ of June 17.00-19.00: 10​th​ lecture.

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15​th​ of June: Deadline last paper in couples of two.

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18​th​ of June 16.00-19.00: Final presentation, graduation and drink.

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