Connectionists: LVA 2015 Summer School on Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation

[Emmanuel Vincent]

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                  LVA 2015 Summer School on
        Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation

         August 24-25, 2015, Liberec, Czech Republic

        http://amca.cz/lva2015/index.php/summer-school
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The LVA 2015 Summer School is the first summer school in the field of 
Latent Variable Analysis and Signal Separation. It will provide four 
half-day lectures on hot topics that will cover both basic and advanced 
material. As such, it will please both students and senior researchers 
from academia and industry.

The summer school will be followed by the 12th LVA conference on Latent 
Variable Analysis and Signal Separation
http://amca.cz/lva2015/


*Preliminary program*
The summer school will feature the following four half-day lectures:

Vicente Zarzoso (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France) & Arie 
Yeredor (Tel-Aviv Univeristy, Israel)
*From Independent Component Analysis to Latent Variable Analysis*

Martin Haardt (Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany) & Taylan 
Cemgil (Bogazici University, Turkey)
*Matrix and Tensor Decompositions*

Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France) & Emanuël Habets (International Audio 
Laboratories, Germany)
*Advanced Spatial Processing*

Mikkel N. Schmidt (Technical University of Denmark) & Antoine Deleforge 
(University of Erlangen, Germany)
*When Signal Processing Meets Machine Learning*

More information about each lecture will be provided soon.


*Registration*
The registration fee will be 80 euros, including lunches and coffee
breaks. Cheap student accomodation for less than 15 euros per night is
available at http://letniubytovani.tul.cz/.

Registration will open soon on the summer school website
http://amca.cz/lva2015/index.php/summer-school


*Organizing Committee*
General chairs:
Zbynek Koldovsky (Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic)
Petr Tichavsky (Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic)

Program chairs:
Arie Yeredor (Tel-Aviv University, Israel)
Emmanuel Vincent (Inria, France)

Overseas liaison: Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan)


*Sponsors*
Technicolor
Technical University of Liberec
Conexant Systems, Inc.
Jablotron
Sony