Activities
Academic Year 2009-2010
The Real Colegio Complutense and its Fellows present
every Thursday at 7:30 pm.
RCC Fellows Lectures (in English),
and every Friday at 7:30 pm.
Spanish movies (in Spanish, English subtitles)
Spanish movies Fall 2009 and Spring 2010
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Activities of
2001- 2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-2005 2005-2006 2006-2007
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Fellows' Lectures 2009-2010
December 3, 7:30 pm
"Behind the scenes of Machine Learning with SVM"
Alfredo Cuesta, Assoc. Professor of Computer Engeneering, CES Felipe II, Aranjuez, UCM, RCC Fellow
SUMMARY:
Machine Learning is a branch of the so called “Artificial Intelligence”. The goal is to provide computers with the ability to generalize rules out of a set of given examples so that they can correctly deal with new cases.
Broadly speaking, a computer can do only what we have installed before. It can do really complex tasks as long as these are sequenced in a list of simple instructions. This list (a program) is as huge as the speed computers work nowadays so we can see movies, listen to music or talk to people in real time.
But there are tasks nobody can code in a program. The number of possibilities may be impossible to be summarized. This is the case of hand-writing, face, and voice recognition. Even if these tasks are possible, we still do not know how to do them. For instance, what makes an animal dwell in some places and not in others? How can we tell whether or not a cell will turn into cancer? With the huge amount of information available in the internet, it would take a lifetime just to look at all of the documents regarding any subject and decide whether they are interesting or not.
During the last 40 years numerous techniques and efforts have been devoted to this discipline. Neural Networks and Probabilistic Reasoning have achieved very good results; in some cases, close to human performance.
In the last decade, a new approach known as Support Vector Machines (SVM) has come into play. This talk describes some real examples of how SVM is being applied. It will also look behind-the-scenes because that show is even more amazing.
December 10, 7:30 pm
"Sentenced to Die in Prison"
María de la Válgoma, Associate Professor of Civil Law, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, RCC Fellow
December 17, 7:30 pm
"The Business Judgment Rule"
Cristina Guerrero, PhD Candidate, Dpt. of Commercial Law in the Universidad Complutense, Madrid, RCC Asssociate
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Seminars and Courses at the RCC, 2009
TBA
An Overview of Chemistry at Harvard
Directors: Miguel Ángel Alario Franco and Alán Aspuru-Guzik
Program (prov.)
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Group of Advanced Research 2009
"
EARLY CHRISTIANITY.CONFLICT AND COEXISTENCE IN ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY: RHETORIC STRATEGIES AND CONCEPTUAL DEBATES"
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Group of Advanced Research 2008
“REGULATING LIABILITIES IN THE INTERNATIONAL TRADE OF FOOD AND GMOs: TOWARDS AN INTERNATIONAL FOOD SAFETY SYSTEM?”
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Group of Advanced Research J. B. Conant, 2007
"THE PUBLIC INTEREST. MEDIA AND PUBLIC OPINION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE (USA-EU)"
Blog of the J. B. Conant Group
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James B. Conant Forum of Discussion
Short movies and documentaries on hot topics
presented by Rafael Rodríguez Prieto
Wednesday, February 20 & 27, March 5 & 12, 2008, 7:00 pm
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Opening of the academic year 2009-2010
Thursday, September 17th, 6:30 pm
26 Trowbridge St., Cambridge Ma 02138
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Fellows Lectures 2009-2010
September 24
"The other 'Founding Fathers': The process of Latin American Independence, 1810 and 2010"
Manuel Lucena-Giraldo, CSIC, Fas Visiting Scholar, RCC Fellow
October 1
“La Transición económica y política, 1976-1981”
Jaime Lamo de Espinosa, Prof. of Economics, UPM, Minister of the Spanish Governments of Adolfo Suarez and Calvo Sotelo.
October 8
"European Constitutionalism and the Treaty of Lisbon"
Eulalia Sanfrutos, RCC Fellow
October 15
"Why resurrection?"
Carlos Blanco, U. of Navarra
October 22
"Guardiola's Method: Why Good Leaders get Good Results"
Miguel Angel Violan, Spanish journalist and lecturer
October 29
"A computer-aided journey into the voices of the Spanish Middle Ages"
Andrés Enrique, Prof. Universitat de les Illes Balears, RCC Felllow
November 5
"The Demographic Profile of Hispanics in the United States and the Role of Education in Their Lives"
Tito Guerrero, President of Cambridge College, & Gregory W. LaPointe, Director of Institutional Planning and Effectiveness, Cambridge College.
November 12
"The Role of Boards of Directors in Corporate Governance: An Empirical Analysis"
Pablo de Andrés, Prof. Titular (Associate Prof.) Univ. Valladolid, RCC Fellow.
November 19
"Can Chemicals and some plastic work as Endocrine disruptors?"
Mª Virginia Caballero González, PhD UCM, RCC Fellow, Visiting Scholar, Cell Biology Department, Harvard Medical School
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Seminarios y cursos 2009-10
October, 5-7
FINANCIAL CRISIS: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE USA AND EUROPE (VII Seminar Harvard-Complutense on Commerce Law)
Directors: David Kennedy , HU, Juan Sánchez-Calero, UCM.
Sponsors: Garrigues, Allen&Overy, Banco de Santander.
October, 19-23
VI Seminar on Law and Economics
Directors: Francisco Cabrillo, UCM, and Fernando Gómez, UPF. Coordinator: Rocío Albert.
Sponsor: Fundación Rafael del Pino.