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please note that the application deadline for the</font></span></pre><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1">------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br></font></span><div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1"> MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL<br>at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany<br> June 19 to 30, <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-il">2017</span><br> <a href="http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2017/" target="_blank">http://<span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-il">mlss</span>.tuebingen.mpg.de/2<wbr>017/</a><br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br><br>is approaching. The deadline is this Friday, Feb 10, <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-aQJ"></span></span></font></span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1"> at <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-aQJ">23.59 GMT</span></span>.<br><br></font></span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"></span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1">Reference letters will be accepted till Friday, <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-aBn"><span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-aQJ">Feb 17, 23.59 GMT</span></span>.</font></span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1"><br><br><br>Overview<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br>The machine learning summer school provides graduate students and industry<br>professionals with an intense learning experience on the theory and<br>applications of modern machine learning. Over the course of two weeks,<br>a panel of internationally renowned experts of the field will offer<br>lectures and tutorials covering basic as well as advanced topics.<br><br>Confirmed Speakers<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br><br>Shai Ben-David (U Waterloo) - Learning Theory<br><br>Zoubin Ghahramani (Cambridge) - Bayesian Inference<br> <br>Manuel Gomez Rodriguez (MPI for Software Systems) - tutorial on Networks<br><br>Stefanie Jegelka (MIT) - Submodularity<br> <br>Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley) - </font></span><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1">Optimization: Distributed, Asynchronous, <br>Accelerated and Non-Convex.
<br><br>Koray Kavukcuoglu (Deepmind) - Deep Learning for Agents<br> <br>Jure Lescovec (Stanford) - Network Analysis<br><br>Ruslan Salakhutdinov (CMU) - Deep Learning<br><br>Suvrit Sra (MIT) - Optimization<br></font></span><br><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1">Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI for Intelligent Systems) - Causality</font></span><br><br>Bharath Sriperumbudur (PennState) - Kernel Methods<br><br>Ilya Tolstikhin (MPI for Intelligent Systems) - tutorial on Theory<br><br>Ruth Urner (MPI for Intelligent Systems) - tutorial on Theory<br></font></span><br><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1"><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1">Raquel Urtasun (Toronto) - Deep Structured Models</font></span> <br><br><br>Application process<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br>Applications are invited from graduate students, postdoctoral researchers<br>and industry professionals looking to use, or already using machine<br>learning methods in their work. This includes researchers in applied<br>fields as well as students of machine learning itself. Prior experience<br>is not strictly required, but helpful. A small number of travel stipends<br>will be available.<br><br>Applicants will be asked to submit a CV, a cover letter of up to 2000<br>characters, and a short letter of recommendation from one referee of their<br>choice. We are also seeking to give participants a chance to discuss their<br>own work with their peers and the speakers. Each applicant is thus invited<br>to provide the title of a poster they would like to present at the school.<br><br></font></span></div><span style="font-family:monospace,monospace"><font size="1">The application system is now open.<br><br>For more information visit<br><a href="http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2017/application.html" target="_blank">http://<span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-il">mlss</span>.tuebingen.mpg.de/2<wbr>017/application.html</a><br><br>Important Dates<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br>* Fri, December 23, 2015 application system opens<br>* Fri, February 10, <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-il">2017</span> DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS<br>* Fri, February 17, <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-il">2017</span> deadline for reference letters<br>* Tue, February 28, <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-il">2017</span> notification of acceptance<br><br>The school will take place from<br><br> Monday, June 19 to Friday, June 30, <span class="gmail-m_-5067905951948306423gmail-il">2017</span><br><br>Organizers<br>------------------------------<wbr>------------------------------<wbr>--------------<br>Ruth Urner, Michael Hirsch, Ilya Tolstikhin and Bernhard Schölkopf<br><br>inquiries should be directed to <a href="mailto:ruth.urner@tuebingen.mpg.de" target="_blank">ruth.urner@tuebingen.mpg.de</a><br><br>==============================<wbr>==============================<wbr>==============</font></span></div></div></div></div>