Two free webinar courses from SIGGRAPH 2021, run by Rajesh Sharma at Disney Animation, starting next week:

Introduction to Ray Tracing starts Tuesday, May 25th, running for seven sessions. It’s based on Pete Shirley’s Ray Tracing in One Weekend book (which is also free). Each class starts with a live conversation with a ray tracing luminary (or me). See here for the full description, syllabus, and YouTube links. You don’t need to register – just show up. But, when? Here’s a Google calendar for integrating into your own, and here’s a link for the ICS file for Outlook, etc. Course materials and prerequisites are here.

Machine Learning and Neural Networks starts Monday, May 24th, also seven sessions. Similar thing: see here for the description, syllabus, and YouTube links. Registration not required. Here’s the Google Calendar link and here’s the ICS link. Course materials and prerequisites (not many!) here.

Me, I hope to at least watch the first 10 minutes of every session to get a glimpse of what the experts are thinking about.

From Rajesh’s Linked-In posting: