Connectionists: Invitation to the Machine Learning Summer School, Canberra, 2006

[Douglas Aberdeen]

Call for Students: Machine Learning Summer School, Canberra, 2006

Quick Link: http://canberra06.mlss.cc

Since 2002, the Machine Learning Summer Schools have given an
opportunity for leaders in the field of ML to lecture to the best
students in ML.

The first 2006 school will cover a broad range of subjects from
foundations of learning theory, to state of the art applications.

Dates:
     Monday 6 February to Friday 17 February 2006 (2 weeks)

Location:
     Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Early Registration Deadline:
     December 31, 2005

Past Schools:
     http://www.mlss.cc

Poster (please help advertise the MLSS series in your school):
     http://rsise.anu.edu.au/~daa/mlss06/flyer.pdf

Details:
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The Machine Learning Summer School is a series of master classes
in Machine Learning, conducted by experts in the field. There are
typically 5 or 6 key speakers who present for up to 8 hours, plus
sundry other speakers. Over two weeks the lectures go from the
foundations of statistical learning theory up to state of the art
applications such as brain/computer interfaces and information
retrieval.

The target audience is anyone starting out in the field of Machine
Learning. This includes
o post graduates and post docs in Machine Learning or statistics;
o researchers entering the field for the first time;
o industry researchers.

This year we have a particularly diverse set of topics including
o learning theory,
o kernel methods,
o nonparametric methods,
o reinforcement learning,
o planning and learning;

and a number of application areas including
o information retrieval,
o image processing,
o brain/computer interfaces.

A limited number of travel support scholarships and registration fee
waivers may be available for students.

For more information, including the preliminary speaker list, go to
http://canberra06.mlss.cc, or contact doug.aberdeen at anu.edu.au.

Come and enjoy an Australian summer with plenty of BBQs.
I hope to see you there!

--
Dr Douglas Aberdeen for the Machine Learning Summer School
National ICT Australia