<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_extra">We are pleased to invite you to the Southern California Machine Learning Symposium, on Friday November 18 at Caltech!</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://dolcit.cms.caltech.edu/scmls/">http://dolcit.cms.caltech.edu/scmls/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The SoCal ML Symposium brings together students and faculty to promote machine learning in the Southern California region. The workshop serves as a forum for researchers from a variety of fields working on machine learning to share and discuss their latest findings.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Topics to be covered at the symposium include, but are not limited to:</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Machine learning with graphs, social networks, and structured data.</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Active learning, reinforcement learning, crowdsourcing.</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Learning with images and natural language.</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Learning with high-dimensional data.</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Neural networks, deep learning, and graphical models.</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Learning dynamic and streaming data.</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Applications to interesting new domains.</div><div class="gmail_extra">+ Addressing each of these issues at scale.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">The majority of the workshop will be focused on student contributions, in the form of contributed talks and posters.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">We invite submissions in the form of 1-2 page extended absracts, to be presented as posters and oral presentations at the symposium. Submissions may be made on our easychair page:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scmls16">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scmls16</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">A $500 first-prize and a $250 runner-up prize, sponsored by Google Research, will be awarded for the best student presentations.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Timeline:</div><div class="gmail_extra">Oct 4: Abstract submission</div><div class="gmail_extra">Oct 14: Notification</div><div class="gmail_extra">Nov 11: Registration deadline</div><div class="gmail_extra">Nov 18: Symposium</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">For more details, including submission and registration instructions, visit our symposium webpage:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://dolcit.cms.caltech.edu/scmls/">http://dolcit.cms.caltech.edu/scmls/</a></div><div class="gmail_extra">and please help distribute our flyer:</div><div class="gmail_extra"><a href="http://dolcit.cms.caltech.edu/scmls/scmls.pdf">http://dolcit.cms.caltech.edu/scmls/scmls.pdf</a></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Hope to see you there!</div><div class="gmail_extra">Yisong Yue, Julian McAuley</div><div><br></div></div></div>