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Iliad Intensive

October 2026

The most important things

Before
Join the Iliad Discord and check you can see #intensive-october. That is where you post any material you need to share with participants. If you can't see it, tell Leonard (@leonardbereska on Discord).
During
At 17:10, make sure everyone fills out the feedback form.
After
Fill out the end-of-day log: rate the day and tell us anything that went wrong.
Fill out Who stood out: name anyone who made a positive impression.
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Your days

Multi-agent Dynamics Fri 23 Oct, seconding 27 responses · energy 3.5/5
Overall +0.26 better than expected
Content +0.30 better than expected
Clarity 0.00 as expected
Motivation +0.37 better than expected
Exercises -0.09 as expected n = 23
Readings +0.20 as expected n = 10
Other activities +0.13 as expected n = 23
Pace +0.26 too fast
Difficulty +0.15 about right
Novelty +0.67 mostly new
Read what they wrote28
Worked well8
  • The mix of various speakers and the intuitive approach
  • I liked the subject matter of James' lecture the most. All 5 talks were impressive.
  • It was helpful that different lecturers have their own expertise. Topics are various but coherent. Interesting topic and discussions.
  • I enjoyed the multi-agent RL talk!
  • i loved that the day was so well curated with a coherent programme±
  • Final discussion
  • The exercises with accompanying reading material really helped solidify my understanding today
  • It was best when they slowed down for questions and encouraged audience engagement.
Would improve14
  • The remote speaker was a bit hard to understand, both physically and content-wise.
  • Bad slides, not helpful or informative to read them during the lecture. Better preparation overall would be nicer, the speaker just read off the slides all the time and they were not written well.
  • Not teaching related, but the room was so hot today. Some fans would help a lot
  • I thought this was a really interesting topic, and particularly enjoyed James Sykes' talk. I would have really liked to see more through the lens of condensed matter physics. I'm now significantly more interested in this topic than where I started.
  • More exercises
  • Very good set of lectures. The lectures were organized well and covered a lot of topics. The lectures were clear and the discussion session a tthe end was especially good..
  • Today's lectures are very nice, and the exercises are good too. Nothing that I can think of for improvement, just wish today is not the last day of the week where we get a bit tired.
  • The online talk was a little confusing and very detailed
  • Make sure beforehand mic and the screen work.
  • I was a bit under the weather today, hence missed some things, my main gripe would be it wouldve been nice to have more of a concrete connection between the talks/cross references. But it was in general very nice.
  • two of the talks (James and the second one by Aden) went a bit too deep on the formalism and maths and specific examples and not enough about basic formalism (the Aden's first talk was great! but did not prepare us for James) and general ideas.
  • Not much, maybe slightly less lecture time. Also fix the AC
  • The lecture needs to spend more time getting us familiar with the notation before sprinting through successive math equations. It is hard to context-switch day after day between different conventions across different fields and coherently follow things. I think comprehension would be greatly improved with just a tiny slowdown in the beginning of the lecture.
  • I thought it would have been perhaps been better to start with the real world examples and discussion around them earlier in the day. Having it before the theory stuff would have put the theory in more context I think and perhaps easier to follow.
Changed my mind6
  • I learned about deal-making - fascinating!
  • This seems like a more interesting topic than I realized.
  • This subfield seems particularly new that there are not well established theories based on math or physics at this moment mostly empirical and engineering which could be seen as open opportunities or exploratory. An important field which could benefit the most from contributions in cognitive science or computational psychology aspects imo. Exploring with RL concept was particularly intriguing.
  • Enjoyed thinking about game theory, might investigate further
  • I changed my views on studying cooperation and altruism as emergent and defined behaviors in systems. I thought it had to be a product of behavior but I am now more open to mechanistic or training-based answers.
  • Interested in what the orthogonality thesis means. Realizing I may have misunderstood it.

The day

10:00 Lecture starts
12:30 Lunch at Mox
13:30 Afternoon session
17:10 Feedback form
17:30 Day ends. Dinner

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