<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:24px;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">ICML 2015 Call for Workshop Proposals</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><i><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">==== This is a reminder that the deadline to submit a workshop proposal for ICML is quickly approaching. Please c</span><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">onsider submitting a workshop proposal for ICML before Friday </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Feb. 27, 23:59 UTC </span></i><i><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">==== </span></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">The International Conference on Machine Learning solicits proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the ICML 2015 conference in Lille, France. The workshops will be held on Friday, July 10 and Saturday, July 11, 2015. </span><br><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">ICML workshops present an excellent opportunity to address a specific machine-learning-related topic of your choice, either to put a spotlight on a nascent topic or consolidate a recently established field. </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">We are looking for full-day or two-day workshop proposals.</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Important Dates</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Workshop proposal deadline: Feb 27, 2015 ** 23:59 UTC **</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Acceptance notification: March 20, 2015</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Workshop submissions due (suggested): May 1st, 2015</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Workshop author notification (suggested): May 10, 2015</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Content and Format</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Workshops are a great format for active research on new topics. The ideal workshop covers a compelling selection of current and upcoming research, and includes an impressive set of speakers and participants with diverse backgrounds. Research talks, discussion via panels, identification of open problems and poster presentations are all great components to include.</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Organization</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">The format, style, and content of accepted workshops are under the control of the workshop organizers and largely autonomous from the main conference. Each workshop day can be up to seven hours long, split into morning and afternoon sessions. Workshop organizers are expected to manage the workshop content, invite experts in the domain, specify the workshop format, be present to moderate, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop registration will be handled centrally by the main conference.</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Submission Instructions</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Proposals should clearly specify the following:</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Workshop title (what is it called?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Topic (what is it about?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Main organizer’s email (who should we get in touch with?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Abstract (can you summarize in a few sentences what will happen?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Motivation, impact, and expected outcomes (why this workshop?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Bibliographic references (where can we learn more?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Format (one-day, two-day?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Organizer and co-organizers info and bios (who is making it happen?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Invited speakers (who will come give invited talks?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Funding status (is funding secured for this event?)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Tentative schedule (what will be the balance between contributed and invited talks, posters, panel discussions, etc...)</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Tentative Website URL</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">• Workshop history (is this the first edition of the workshop?)</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Detailed descriptions of last year’s workshops can be found at: </span><a href="http://icml.cc/2014/index/article/16.htm" target="_blank" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">http://icml.cc/2014/index/article/16.htm</a><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15.3333330154419px;font-weight:bold;line-height:11.5px;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Process</span><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Workshop proposals should be submitted through the following form </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><div class="gmail_quote" style><br></div></font><a href="http://goo.gl/forms/LqLu12u218" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8000001907349px;line-height:1.15;text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://goo.gl/forms/LqLu12u218</span></a><br><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap">or by email, in an attached pdf document providing answers to the points summarized above, to the address:</span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><a href="mailto:workshops@icml.cc">workshops@icml.cc</a></span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap">Submissions, either through the form or by mail, must be sent before Feb 27, 2015, 23:59 UTC. </span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap">=== Submissions will be acknowledged by a confirmation email. ===</span></div><span style="font-size:12.8000001907349px"><br></span><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:11.7555551528931px;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Acceptance decision</b><br><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Proposals will be evaluated by the workshop chair and conference organizers, with an eye towards selecting high-quality workshops on a diverse set of topics that will inform and inspire the community.</span><br><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:15px;line-height:9.85714244842529px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font><b style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">Contact</b><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;background-color:transparent">: workshops@icml.cc</span><br><div><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Marco Cuturi, workshop chair ICML 2015</span></div></div></div></div>