Isaac Newton Institute

[Prof. Chris Bishop]

		       Isaac Newton Institute

                NEURAL NETWORKS AND MACHINE LEARNING

             A six month programme at the Isaac Newton 
        Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, U.K.

                       July to December 1997


          Organisers: C M Bishop (Aston), D Haussler (UCSC), 
   G E Hinton (Toronto), M Niranjan (Cambridge), L G Valiant (Harvard)


The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences is an
international research centre, sponsoring visitor programmes in topics
across the whole spectrum of mathematical research. This programme
will be an important international event in the field of neural
computing. At any one time there will be around 20 to 25 long-term
participants, as well as larger numbers of short-term visitors.
Seminars are open to all, although long-term participation will be by
invitation.

Three major conferences are planned to take place during the programme:
1) "Generalization in Neural Networks and Machine Learning" (4 to 15 August).
  This will be a NATO Advanced Study Institute.
2) "Probabilistic Graphical Models" (1 to 5 September).
3) "Bayesian Methods" (15 to 19 December).

In addition, there will be a number of workshops, generally of one
week duration. Provisional themes for these include the following:
"Learning in computer vision" (6 to 10 October),
"HMM hybrid models and protein/DNA modelling" (20 to 24 October),
"Applications" (3 to 7 November),
"Non-stationarity" (10 to 14 November),
"Information geometry" (8 to 12 December).

Information about the programme, and a list of participants, can be
found at the programme web site:
  http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programs/nnm.html 

General information about the Newton Institute can be found at:
  http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/

To be kept informed of future developments, you can subscribe to the 
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For programme-specific enquires please contact:
  Christopher M. Bishop
  Neural Computing Research Group
  Dept. of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
  Aston University, Birmingham B4 7ET, U.K.
  Tel. +44/0 121 333 4631
  Fax. +44/0 121 333 4586
  C.M.Bishop at aston.ac.uk