Sheffield Machine Learning Workshop

[Joab Winkler]

                Preliminary announcement
            
            SHEFFIELD MACHINE LEARNING WORKSHOP   
        
                 Sheffield, United Kingdom
                   Septemeber 7-10, 2004
            
               www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ml/workshop/
            
   The Machine Learning Research Group in The Department of Computer
   Science at The University of Sheffield is organising a workshop on
   deterministic and statistical methods in machine learning, with a
   strong emphasis on mathematical and numerical methods.
   
   Confirmed invited speakers:
   
   Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research, UK)    
   Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research, UK)    
   Herve Bourlard (IDIAP, Switzerland)       
   Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan)          
   Michael Elad (Stanford, USA)             
   Jerry Eriksson (Umea, Sweden)
   Zoubin Ghahramani (University College London, UK)
   Gene Golub (Stanford, USA)
   Josef Kittler (Surrey University, UK)
   David Lowe (Aston University, UK)
   David Mackay (Cambridge University, UK)
   Ian Nabney (Aston University, UK)
   Manfred Opper (Southhampton University, UK)
   David Lowe (Aston University, UK)
   John Platt (Microsoft Research, USA)
   Stephen Roberts (Oxford University, UK)
   Bernard Schoelkopf (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
   Michael Tipping  (Microsoft Research, UK) 
   Chris Williams (Edinburgh University, UK)   
  
   The refereed proceedings of the conference which will be published by 
   Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The workshop 
   is supported by grants from the Engineering and Physical
   Sciences Research Council, the London Mathematical Society and
   Sheffield University. The workshop is expected to form part
   of the thematic programme for the PASCAL European Network of
   Excellence.
   
   Registration will open on 2 April 2004, and early registration is
   encouraged because there is a limited number of places. 
   
   For more details, contact the organisers:
   
   Joab Winkler
   Mahesan Niranjan
   Neil Lawrence
   
   E-mail: mlworkshop at dcs.shef.ac.uk
   
   Department of Computer Science
   The University of Sheffield
   United Kingdom