Connectionists: Transylvanian Machine Learning Summer School (TMLSS), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 16-22 July 2018

[Razvan Pascanu]

Call for Participation (apologies for crossposting)

Transylvanian Machine Learning Summer School

July 16-22, 2018, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Web: www.tmlss.ro

Email: contact at tmlss.ro

Application opens: January 22, 2018

Application closes: March 30, 2018

Notification of acceptance: April 27, 2018


Motivation and description

TMLSS is a machine learning summer school that aims to popularize topics
around machine learning and artificial intelligence and to encourage
research in these fields. The summer school will be held in Eastern Europe
-- this year in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. By bringing together high quality
lecturers and students from all over the world, we strive to enable
communication and networking between the Eastern Europe research community
and students and researchers from established groups around the world.

The school is open to participants from all over the world. The selection
process has equal opportunities and diversity at heart, and will assess
interest and knowledge of machine learning.

The theme of this edition will be Deep Learning and Reinforcement Learning.
The programme consists of lectures and hands-on practical sessions on core
topics such as Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, Reinforcement
Learning, and Generative Models. Additional advanced topics include
Robotics and the Theory of Neural Networks.

List of confirmed lecturers

Doina Precup, McGill University & DeepMind

Dumitru Erhan, Google Brain

Guido Montúfar, University of California, Los Angeles

Jan Chorowski, University of Wrocław & Google Brain

Kyunghyun Cho, New York University & Facebook AI Research

Lucian Bușoniu, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca

Luigi Malagò, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Marius Leordeanu, Politechnica University of Bucharest & Institute of
Mathematics of the Romanian Academy

Raia Hadsell, DeepMind

Razvan Pascanu, DeepMind

Lab instructors

Diana Borsa, DeepMind & University College London

Mihaela Rosca, DeepMind

Viorica Patraucean, DeepMind

Wojtek Czarnecki, DeepMind


Organizers

Doina Precup, McGill University & DeepMind

Luigi Malagò, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Răzvan Florian, Romanian Institute of Science and Technology

Razvan Pascanu, DeepMind

Viorica Patraucean, DeepMind

Partners

Romanian Institute of Science and Technology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania


Poster session

Participants are encouraged to present posters on their research work and
interests. The work described does not have to be novel. For example,
students can present their experience of reproducing published work.

Presenting a poster increases the chance of being selected. Participants
that choose to present a poster will be asked to submit an abstract during
registration.


Social events

The programme includes several opportunities for socializing and
networking, such as welcoming reception, half-day trip around Cluj,
farewell dinner.


Scholarships

A limited number of scholarships will be offered to students, based on
financial considerations.


More info

www.tmlss.ro

contact at tmlss.ro
Follow us on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/TMLSS.ro/>
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