Connectionists: 2nd call for participation: Current Challenges in Kernel Methods -- 27-28 Nov 06, Brussels, Belgium

[Tijl De Bie]

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Second announcement and call for participation:

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International Workshop on
Current Challenges in Kernel Methods (CCKM06)

The official 2006 kernel workshop, "10 years of kernel machines"

Belgium, Brussels, 27-28 November 2006

www.machine-learning.be/cckm06/

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* Format

The workshop will consist of two days of invited talks by internationally
renown researchers.
Additionally, an interactive student poster session will be organized. You
can submit your poster abstract on the workshop website (deadline: 27
October 2006).


* Invited speakers

 Andreas Christmann <http://homepages.vub.ac.be/%7Eachristm/> (Free
University of Brussels)
Nello Cristianini <http://www.support-vector.net/nello.html> (University of
Bristol)
Ingrid Daubechies <http://www.pacm.princeton.edu/%7Eingrid/> (Princeton
University)
Kristiaan Pelckmans
<http://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/%7Ekpelckma/research/>(Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven)
Alain Rakotomamonjy <http://asi.insa-rouen.fr/%7Earakotom/> (INSA de Rouen)
Bernhard Schoelkopf <http://www.kyb.mpg.de/%7Ebs> (Max Planck Institute for
Biological Cybernetics)
John Shawe-Taylor <http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/people/jst> (University
College London)
Johan Suykens <http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/sista/members/suykens.html>(Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven)
Sandor Szedmak <http://www.pascal-network.org/Network/Researchers/452/>(University
of Southampton)
Ioannis Tsochantaridis <http://www.google.com/> (Google)
Jean-Philippe Vert <http://cg.ensmp.fr/%7Evert/> (Ecole de Mines de Paris)


* Important dates

- Conference accommodation (ATLAS hotel) reserved until: Sunday 15 October.
- Poster abstract submission deadline: Friday 27 October.
- Early registration deadline: Friday 27 October.
- Late registration deadline: Friday 17 November.
- Workshop: Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 November 2006.


* Description

In the past decade, the kernel methods domain has expanded from a single
algorithm for classification to a full-grown toolbox of techniques that are
currently being applied in a variety of domains. This workshop aims at
highlighting the current trends and topics of interest, and at putting these
in a synthesized historical perspective, with attention for both theoretical
and application challenges. Specific topics range from learning theory, over
algorithmic/optimization issues in new kernel methods to practical successes
and bottlenecks.***

Intended audience*: researchers interested or working in kernel methods, or
application domains that are likely to benefit from the advances in kernel
methods. Participants may come from artificial intelligence, machine
learning, statistics, bioinformatics, data mining, web mining,... with a
special interest in the study and application of kernel methods.***

Level and scope *: the lectures in the workshop are intended to be
accessible to a broad audience, including anyone with a broad background in
computer science, statistics, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering,
or related domain. As a guideline, half of each lecture will be tutorial
style, while the other half will cover recent developments.

The workshop is sponsored by the *WOG machine learning for data mining and
applications* <http://www.machine-learning.be/>, and by the
*PASCAL-network<http://www.pascal-network.org/>
*, such that attendance will be free except for the catering
expenses.However,for practical reasons, registration
is mandatory. Please register early, as the number of places is limited.


* Please check the workshop website for more details:

www.machine-learning.be/cckm06/


Kind regards,

The organizers,
Prof. Bernard Manderick
Dr. Tijl De Bie