Colloquium

[Yoshua Bengio]

                          COLLOQUIUM
          to be held at the 62nd congress of ACFAS
   (Association Canadienne Francaise pour l'Avancement des Sciences)
	   (French Canadian Association for the Advancement of Science)

             LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS


The next ACFAS congress will be held in Montreal from May 16th to May 20th 1994.
Colloquia in many areas of science are organized to allow researchers
in a specific area to meet, exchange views and make their work better
known. Talks are given in FRENCH (no posters). Abstracts of accepted 
contributions that were submitted before February 1st will be published in the 
proceedings of the congress. 

Submission procedure: 
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A short French abstract (150-300 words) which could fit on a 10cm x 15cm 
rectangle should be submitted by February 1st. Electronic submissions
(plain ascii or latex) are much preferred:

cloutier at iro.umontreal.ca    or    bengioy at iro.umontreal.ca

J. Cloutier or Y. Bengio
Dept. I.R.O., Universite de Montreal,
C.P. 6128 Succ. A, Montreal, Qc, Canada, H3C3J7


Topics of interest:
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             LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORKS
- Learning algorithms
- Generalization
- Applications of theoretical results to practical problems
- How accelerate learning algorithms
- Links between learning algorithms and generalization
- Use of a-priori knowledge in the design of learning systems
- Combinations of artificial neural networks with other techniques


-- 
Yoshua Bengio 

E-mail: bengioy at iro.umontreal.ca      Fax:       (514) 343-5834
Tel: (514) 343-6804. Residence: (514) 738-6206
Y-219, Universite de Montreal, Dept. IRO, CP 6128, Succ. A,
2900 Edouard-Montpetit, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3T 1J4