Connectionists: Reminder: Application deadline for MLSS 2015 in Tuebingen, Germany

[Michael Hirsch]

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Dear Colleagues,

please note that the application deadline for the

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                     MACHINE LEARNING SUMMER SCHOOL
at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany
                          13 to 24 July 2015
                  http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2015/
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is approaching soon. The deadline is this Thursday, February 12th
at 23.59 GMT.

Due to several requests, the deadline for reference letters will be
extended by one week. Reference letters will be accepted till Thursday,
February 19th, 23.59 GMT.

Please also note the extended list of speakers!


Overview
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The machine learning summer school provides graduate students and industry
professionals with an intense learning experience on the theory and
applications of modern machine learning. Over the course of two weeks,
a panel of internationally renowned experts of the field will offer
tutorials covering basic as well as advanced topics.

Confirmed Speakers and Topics
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Rohit Babar (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on
	Kernel Methods

Michael Black (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on
	Learning Human Body Shape

Olivier Bousquet (Google) will speak on
	Machine Learning in Industry
	
Stephen Boyd (Stanford) will speak on
	Optimization

Tamara Broderick (MIT, ex Berkeley) will speak on
	Bayesian Nonparametrics

Rob Fergus (Facebook / NYU) will speak on
	Neural Networks

Zoubin Ghahramani (Cambridge) will speak on
	Bayesian Inference

Arthur Gretton (UCL) will speak on
	Kernels

Ralf Herbrich (Amazon) will speak on
	Machine Learning in Industry

Neil Lawrence (Sheffield) will speak on
	Gaussian Processes

David Lopez-Paz (MPI for Intelligent Sytems) will co-teach a practical on
	Kernel Methods

Ulrike von Luxburg (University of Hamburg) will speak on
	Learning Theory

Krikamol Muandet (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on
	Kernel Methods

Jonas Peters (ETH Zürich, MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on
	Causality

Stefan Schaal (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on
	Learning Robots

Ilya Tolstikhin (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on
	Learning Theory

Ruth Urner (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will co-teach a practical on
	Learning Theory
	
Chris Watkins (Royal Holloway) will speak on
	Reinforcement Learning

Jason Weston (Facebook) will speak on a topic tbc

Frank Wood (Oxford) will teach a practical on
	Probabilistic Programming

Bernhard Schölkopf (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on
	Causality

Philipp Hennig (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on
	Probabilistic Numerical Methods

Michael Hirsch (MPI for Intelligent Systems) will speak on
	Computational Imaging


Application process
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Applications are invited from graduate students, postdoctoral researchers
and industry professionals looking to use, or already using machine
learning methods in their work. This includes researchers in applied
fields as well as students of machine learning itself. Prior experience
is not strictly required, but helpful. A small number of travel stipends
will be available.

Applicants will be asked to submit a CV, a cover letter of up to 2000
characters, and a short letter of recommendation from one referee of their
choice. We are also seeking to give participants a chance to discuss their
own work with their peers and the speakers. Each applicant is thus invited
to provide the title of a poster they would like to present at the school.

For more information visit
http://mlss.tuebingen.mpg.de/2015/application.html

Important Dates
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* Monday 12 Jaunary 2015  	application system opens
* Thursday 12 February 2015	DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS
* Thursday 19 February 2015	DEADLINE FOR REFERENCE LETTERS
* Thursday 12 March 2015	notification of acceptance

The school takes place from

	Monday 13 July to Friday 24 July 2015

Organizers
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Michael Hirsch              Philipp Hennig              Bernhard Schölkopf

inquiries should be directed to michael.hirsch at tuebingen.mpg.de
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