Montreal workshop and spring school on NNs and learning algorithms

[Yoshua Bengio]

              Montreal Workshop and Spring School 
            on Neural Nets and Learning Algorithms

                     April 15-30 1996 

  Centre de Recherche Mathematique, Universite de Montreal

MORE INFO AT:
   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/neuro/spring96/english.html


This workshop and concentrated course on
artificial neural networks and learning algorithms is
organized by the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques of 
the University of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec,
Canada). The first week of the the workshop will
concentrate on learning theory, statistics, and generalization.
The second week (and beginning of third) will concentrate 
on learning algorithms, architectures, applications and 
implementations.


The organizers of the workshop are Bernard Goulard (Montreal),
Yoshua Bengio (Montreal), Bertrand Giraud (CEA Saclay, France)
and Renato De Mori (McGill).


The invited speakers are G. Hinton (Toronto), V. Vapnik (AT&T),
M. Jordan (MIT), H. Bourlard (Mons), T. Hastie (Stanford),
R. Tibshirani (Toronto), F. Girosi (MIT), M. Mozer (Boulder),
J.P. Nadal (ENS, Paris), Y. Le Cun (AT&T), M. Marchand (U of Ottawa),
J. Shawe-Taylor (London), L. Bottou (Paris), F. Pineda (Baltimore),
J. Moody (Oregon), S. Bengio (INRS Montreal), J. Cloutier (Montreal),
S. Haykin (McMaster), M. Gori (Florence), J. Pollack (Brandeis),
S. Becker (McMaster), Y. Bengio (Montreal), S. Nowlan (Motorola),
P. Simard (AT&T), G. Dreyfus (ESPCI Paris), P. Dayan (MIT), 
N. Intrator (Tel Aviv), B. Giraud (France), B. Pearlmutter (Siemens), 
H.P. Graf (AT&T).


TENTATIVE SCHEDULE
(see details at http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/neuro/spring96/english.html)

Week 1

Introduction, learning theory and statistics

April 15:
Y. Bengio, J.P. Nadal, G. Dreyfus, B. Giraud
April 16:
Y. Bengio, F. Girosi, L. Bottou, J.P. Nadal, G. Dreyfus, B. Giraud
April 17:
V. Vapnik, L. Bottou, F. Girosi, M. Marchand, J. Shawe-Taylor, V. Vapnik
April 18:
J. Shawe-Taylor, V. Vapnik, R. Tibshirani, T. Hastie, M. Jordan
April 19:
M. Marchand, S. Bengio, R. Tibshirani, T. Hastie, M. Jordan


Week 2 and 3

Algorithms, architectures and applications

April 22:
S. Haykin, H. Bourlard, M. Gori, M. Mozer, F. Pineda
April 23:
S. Haykin, F. Pineda, H. Bourlard, M. Mozer, J. Pollack, P. Dayan
April 24:
M. Gori, J. Pollack, P. Dayan, B. Pearlmutter, S. Becker, P. Simard
April 25:
S. Becker, G. Hinton, N. Intrator, B. Pearlmutter, S. Nowlan, Y. Le Cun
April 26:
S. Bengio, Y. Le Cun, S. Nowlan, N. Intrator, P. Simard
April 29:
J. Moody, Y. Bengio, J. Cloutier, H.P. Graf
April 30:
J. Moody, J. Cloutier, H.P. Graf



REGISTRATION INFORMATION:


$100 (Canadian) or 75 $US, if received before April 1st
$150 (Canadian) or 115 $US, if received on or after April 1st
$25 (Canadian) or 19 $US, for students and post-doctoral fellows.

The number of participants will be limited, on a first-come 
first-served basis. Please register early! 
Have a look at 
  http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/labs/neuro/spring96/english.html
for more details, or directly load the registration form by ftp
(postscript: ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/neuro/registration.ps
or ascii: ftp://ftp.iro.umontreal.ca/pub/neuro/registration.asc).

Reduced hotel rates can be obtained by returning your registration
form with your choice of hotel before March 15th.

For more information, contact Louis Pelletier, 
pelletl at crm.umontreal.ca, 514-343-2197, fax 514-343-2254
Centre de Recherche Mathematique, 
Universite de Montreal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville,
Montreal, Quebec, H3C-3J7, Canada.



-- 
Yoshua Bengio 
Professeur Adjoint, Dept. Informatique et Recherche Operationnelle
Pavillon Andre-Aisenstadt #3339 , Universite de Montreal, 
Dept. IRO, CP 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville,
2920 Chemin de la tour, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, H3C 3J7

E-mail: bengioy at iro.umontreal.ca      Fax:       (514) 343-5834
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