October 2026

Schedule

Yours: Mechanistic Interpretability, Wed 7 Oct · Steganography and Backdoors, Mon 12 Oct

Week 1

[C.1]Intro to ML Engineering and Transformers Mon 5 Oct Dan WilhelmLocked materials quiz feedback

[A.1]AI Alignment Introduction Tue 6 Oct Margot StakenborgLocked materials quiz feedback

[C.2]Mechanistic Interpretability seconding Wed 7 Oct Dan WilhelmLockedJulian Schulz materials quiz feedback

[A.2]Alignment in Practice Thu 8 Oct Margot StakenborgLocked materials quiz feedback

[D.1]Decision Theory and RL Fri 9 Oct David QuarelLocked quiz feedback

Week 2

[E.2]Steganography and Backdoors leading Mon 12 Oct Julian SchulzLocked materials quiz feedback

[B.2]Mysteries of Deep Learning Tue 13 Oct Charles Renshaw-WhitmanLockedBrianna Grado-White materials feedback

[B.6]Physics of Deep Learning Wed 14 Oct Tudor DimofteLocked materials quiz feedback

[B.3]Singular Learning Theory Thu 15 Oct Brianna Grado-WhiteLockedDmitry Vaintrob materials quiz feedback

[B.4]Training Dynamics Fri 16 Oct Charles Renshaw-WhitmanLockedBrianna Grado-White materials quiz feedback

Week 3

[C.3]Computational Mechanics Mon 19 Oct Paul RiechersLocked materials quiz feedback

[D.7]World Models and Transducers Tue 20 Oct Alec BoydLocked materials quiz feedback

Project proposal day · Wed 21 Oct Wed 21 Oct Leonard BereskaLocked

[B.5]Data Attribution Thu 22 Oct Charles Renshaw-WhitmanLocked materials quiz feedback

Multi-agent Dynamics Fri 23 Oct Aden PowerLockedSandy Tanwisuth feedback

Week 4

[E.1]Debate and Provably Safe AI Mon 26 Oct Aden PowerLocked materials quiz feedback

[D.4]Agent Foundations Tue 27 Oct Aden PowerLocked materials quiz feedback

Heuristic Arguments and Verification Wed 28 Oct Aden PowerLockedVictor Lecomte feedback

SAEs and Activation Geometry Thu 29 Oct Eric MichaudLockedAndrew Mack, Brianna Grado-White feedback

Project proposal day · Fri 30 Oct Fri 30 Oct Leonard BereskaLocked

The Module Library holds a folder per module. The curriculum site holds the lecture notes, and a code links to them where they are written. The quiz folder holds every day's form. A day with no link has none confirmed for it.