The spring 1993 Colorado Machine Learning Colloquium Series

[Lorien Y. Pratt]

	    THE CSM DEPARTMENTS OF MATHEMATICAL AND COMPUTER SCIENCES, 
		    GEOPHYSICS, DIVISION OF ENGINEERING, AND
				    CRIS*

				  announce:


			      The spring, 1993
		  Colorado Machine Learning Colloquium Series


	Room 110, Stratton Hall, on the CSM campus in Golden, Colorado
			    All talks at 5:30 pm. 

      Machine learning and neural networks are increasingly important
      areas of applied computer science and engineering research.  These
      methods allow systems to improve their performance over time with
      reduced input from a human operator.  In the last few years, these
      methods have demonstrated their usefulness in a wide variety of
      problems.  At CSM, an interdisciplinary atmosphere has fostered
      several projects that use these technologies for problems in
      geophysics, materials science, and electrical engineering.  In
      Colorado as a whole, exploration of machine learning and neural
      networks is widespread.  This colloquium series fosters the
      development of these technologies through presentations of recent
      applied and basic research.  At least a third of each talk will be
      accessible to a general scientific audience.

Schedule:
	Tuesday, March 16: Aaron Gordon, CSM: 
			Dynamic Recurrent Neural Networks

	Tuesday, March 23: Darrell Whitley, CSU Ft. Collins: 
			Executable Models of Genetic Algorithms

	Tuesday March 30: Chidambar Ganesh, CSM: 
			Some Experiences with Data Preprocessing in Neural 
			Network applications 

	Monday April 5: Chuck Anderson, CSU Ft. Collins:
			 Reinforcement Learning and Control

 	Tuesday April 13: Marijke Augusteign, UC Colorado Springs: 
			Solving Classification Problems with Cascade-Correlation

	Tuesday April 20: John Steele, CSM: 
			Predicting Degree Of Cure Of Epoxy Resins Using 
			Dielectric Sensor Data and Artificial Neural Networks

	Thursday April 22: Michael Mozer, CU Boulder: 
			Neural network approaches to formal language induction


	      Open to the Public, Refreshments to be Served


  For more information (including background readings prior to talks),
  contact Dr. L. Y. Pratt, CSM Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences,
  lpratt at mines.colorado.edu, (303) 273-3878

    *The mission of the proposed new Center for Robotics and Intelligent
    Systems (CRIS) at the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) is to facilitate
    the application of advanced computer science research in neural
    networks, robotics, and artificial intelligence to specific problem
    areas of concern at CSM.  By bringing diverse interdisciplinary
    expertise to bear on problems in materials, natural resources, the
    environment, energy, transportation, information, and communications,
    the center will facilitate the development of novel computational
    approaches to difficult problems.   When fully operational,  the
    center's activities will include: 1) sponsoring colloquia, 2)
    publishing a technical report series, 3) aiding researchers in the
    pursuit of government and private grants, 4) promoting education
    a) by coordinating CSM courses related to robotics, neural networks
    and artificial intelligence, and b) by maintaining minors both at
    the undergraduate and graduate levels, 5) promoting research, and
    6) supporting industrial interaction.