Neural nets applications meeting in UK

[Mike Wynne-Jones]

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	NEURAL COMPUTING APPLICATIONS FORUM
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		23 - 24 June 1993

   Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge University, UK


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     PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF NEURAL NETWORKS
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Neural Computing Applications Forum is the primary meeting place for
people developing Neural Network applications in industry and
academia.  It has 150 members from the UK and Europe, from
universities, small companies and big ones, and holds four main
meeting each year.  It has been running for 3 years, and is cheap to
join.

This meeting spans two days with informal workshops on 23 June and the
main meeting comprising talks about neural network techniques and
applications on 24 June.  

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WORKSHOPS - these talks are planned; additional short talks are sought.
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Constructing structured networks of Radial Basis Functions 

             23 June, 13.00 to 15.00
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Including :

Robert Debenham (Logica Cambridge): 
"Online construction of RBFs during training"

Richard Bostock (Aston University):
"Bump-tree construction by genetic algorithms"

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             Self Organising Networks

              23 June, 15.30 to 17.30
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Including:

Nigel Allinson (York University): 
"Self Organising Networks: fast training, case studies and digital
implementations"


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Evening: Punting on the Cam followed by liquid refreshments!
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MAIN MEETING  -  24 June 1993
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8.30 Registration

9.05 Welcome

9.15 Douglas Kell (university of Wales):
   	"Detection of impurities in olive oil"

9.55 Mahesan Niranjan (University of Cambridge):
	"On-line learning algorithms for prediction and 
		control applications"

10.30 Coffee

11.00 Tony Robinson (University of Cambridge):
	"Application of recurrent nets to phone probability 
		estimation in speech recognition"

11.40 Prof. Cabrol-Bass (LARTIC, France):
	"Indices for the Evaluation of Neural Network Performance 
	as classifiers: Application to Structural Elucidation 
	in Infra Red Spectroscopy"

12.15 Lunch

2.00 Stephen Roberts (Oxford University):
	"Probabilistic Growth of RBFs for detection of novelty"

2.40 Dave Cressy (Logica Cambridge Research):
	"Neural Control of an Experimental Batch Distillation Column"

3.15 Tea

3.40 Tom Harris (Brunel University):
	"Kohonen nets in machine health monitoring"

4.10 Discussions

4.30 Close

ACCOMODATION is available in Fitzwilliam college at 30 pounds (single)
and 47 pounds (twin), and **MUST** be booked and paid for in advance.
There are also lots of hotels in Cambridge.


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   Application 
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Members of NCAF get free entry to all meetings for a year. (This is
very good value - main meetings, tutorials, special interest
meetings).  It also includes subscription to Springer Verlag's
new(ish) journal "Neural Computing and Applications".

Full membership: 250 pounds. 
	- anybody in your cmall company / research group in big company.

Individual membership: 140 pounds
	- named individual only.

Student membership (with journal): 55 pounds
	- copy of student ID required.

Student membership (no journal, very cheap!): 25 pounds
	- copy of student ID required.

Entry to this meeting without membership costs 35 pounds for the
workshops, and 80 pounds for the main day.

Payment in advance if possible; 5 pounds charge for issue of invoice if credit is required; need an official order number.


Email enquiries to Mike Wynne-Jones, mikewj at signal.dra.hmg.gb.

Postal to Mike Wynne-Jones, NCAF, PO Box 62, Malvern, WR14 4NU, UK.

Fax to Mike Wynne-Jones, (+44/0) 684 894384