<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial">Dear all,</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial">The application page for OxML 2024 is now open.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial"><br></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial"><b>Key information</b></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Dates: July 6-14, 2024 (Oxford Mathematical Institute + Virtual)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">Application deadline: 27 Feb 2024 </font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">Link to the application form: <a href="https://forms.gle/WjNykaMiaLXh2vWXA">https://forms.gle/WjNykaMiaLXh2vWXA</a></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">For more info, please visit the school’s website: </span><a href="https://www.oxfordml.school/" style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">www.oxfordml.school</span></a></p><font face="Arial"><br><span style="font-weight: 700;">About OxML 2024</span></font><div><ul class="MailOutline" style="padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">OxML is organised by </span><a href="https://www.globalgoals.ai/" style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">AI for Global Goals</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">, in partnership with </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://cifar.ca/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);">CIFAR</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">and The University of Oxford’s </span><span style="font-family: Arial; text-decoration: underline; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://deepmedicine.medsci.ox.ac.uk/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);">Deep Medicine</a> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Program.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">It will take place at the </span><span style="font-family: Arial; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);">Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford</a>,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and online.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial;">OxML 2024 consists of three separate schools/modules:</span></li><ul class="MailOutline" style="padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial;">MLx Fundamentals (3-4 & 10-11 May, online): This module will provide all participants with the necessary background in fundamental theories and techniques behind modern ML.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Representation Learning + Gen. AI (hybrid): This module will cover the advanced topics in deep learning (including, but not limited to generative AI) and its applications in language, vision, and more. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Health+Bio (hybrid): In this, our speakers will cover the latest research and applications of ML in healthcare, biology, and more (e.g., ML in imaging, genomics, electronic health records (EHR), drug discovery, ... ).</span></li></ul><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">We aim to host ~250 participants in person (plus ~250 virtually) in each module.</font></span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type: disc; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 12pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">Note that, the MLx Fundamentals module will not have a selection/application process; everyone <a href="https://www.oxfordml.school/event-details/mlx-fundamentals">can register</a> on a first-come-first-served basis.</font></span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">Speakers</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The school’s world-renowned speakers are from top ML research groups. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">The first group of speakers’ bios and more details on their talks can be found on the school’s </span><a href="https://www.oxfordml.school/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">website</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">; more speakers will be announced in the coming weeks. </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">You can follow the updates via our website, or </span><a href="https://twitter.com/GlobalGoalsAI" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> and </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-for-global-goals/" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> accounts. </span></font></p><font face="Arial"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">Target audience </font></span></p><ul class="MailOutline" style="padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Everyone is welcome to apply to OxML 2024 regardless of their origin, nationality, and country of residence. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial;">Our target audience is (1) Ph.D. students with a good technical background whose research topics are related to ML, plus (2) researchers and engineers in both academia and industry with similar/advanced levels of technical knowledge. </span></li><li><span style="font-family: Arial;">All applicants are subject to a selection process; we aim to select strongly motivated participants, who are interested in broadening their knowledge of the advanced topics in the field of ML/DL and their applications.</span></li></ul><div><font face="Arial"><br></font></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: 700; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">Application</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial">You can find the application for the school </font><a href="https://forms.gle/WjNykaMiaLXh2vWXA"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></a><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd5a69QQ4_bCfosoZGsasVyX-PkXsGzifAD8fwL2yaUk_342A/viewform" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(41, 98, 255);"><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; text-decoration: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline;">here</span></a><font face="Arial">.</font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Arial">Given the overwhelming number of applications we received in previous years, the application portal may close earlier than the deadline if the number of applications exceeds our capacity to review.</font></span></p><font face="Arial"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Best,</span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-position: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><font face="Arial">Reza Khorshidi, DPhil (Oxon)</font></p></div></body></html>