The post-Conference Workshops will be held at the Westin Resort and Spa
and the Westin Hilton in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada on December 7 and 8, 2007.
The Workshops provide multi-track intensive sessions on a wide range
of topics. The venue and schedule facilitate informality and depth.
Please see a list of Workshops below, along with links to further
information for each.
| Thursday |
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| 6:30 - 8:30pm |
Welcoming Reception |
| Friday |
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| 6:30 - 8:00am |
Breakfast |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Matthias Seeger, David Barber, Neil Lawrence, Onno Zoeter
Approximate Bayesian Inference in Continuous/Hybrid Models |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Richard Turner, Pietro Berkes, Maneesh Sahani
Beyond Simple Cells: Probabilistic Models for Visual Cortical Processing |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Samy Bengio, Corinna Cortes, Dennis DeCoste, Francois Fleuret, Ramesh Natarajan, Edwin Pednault, Dan Pelleg, Elad Yom-Tov
Efficient Machine Learning - Overcoming Computational Bottlenecks in Machine Learning (Part 1) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Ryan Canolty, Kai Miller
Large Scale Brain Dynamics (Part 1) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Archana Ganapathi, Sumit Basu, Fei Sha, Emre Kiciman
Machine Learning for Systems Problems (Part 1) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Dengyong Zhou, Olivier Chapelle, Thorsten Joachims, Thomas Hofmann
Machine Learning for Web Search |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Gal Chechik, Christina Leslie, Quaid Morris, William Noble, Gunnar Raetsch, Koji Tsuda
Machine Learning in Computational Biology (Part 1) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
David Hardoon, Eduardo Reck-Miranda, John Shawe-Taylor
Music, Brain and Cognition. Part 1: Learning the Structure of Music and Its Effects On the Brain |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
John Langford, Alina Beygelzimer
Principles of Learning Problem Design |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Jan Peters, Marc Toussaint
Robotics Challenges for Machine Learning |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Michael Aupetit, Frederic Chazal, Gilles Gasso, David Cohen-Steiner, pierre gaillard
Topology Learning: New Challenges At the Crossing of Machine Learning, |
| 9:00am - 6:00pm |
Yael Niv, Matthew Botvinick, Andrew Barto
Hierarchical Organization of Behavior: Computational, Psychological and Neural Perspectives (Part 1) |
| 3:00 - 7:00pm |
Registration |
| 7:00 - 9:00pm |
IBM Student Reception |
| Saturday |
|---|
| 6:30 - 8:00am |
Breakfast |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Samy Bengio, Corinna Cortes, Dennis DeCoste, Francois Fleuret, Ramesh Natarajan, Edwin Pednault, Dan Pelleg, Elad Yom-Tov
Efficient Machine Learning - Overcoming Computational Bottlenecks in Machine Learning (Part 2) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Ryan Canolty, Kai Miller
Large Scale Brain Dynamics (Part 2) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Archana Ganapathi, Sumit Basu, Fei Sha, Emre Kiciman
Machine Learning for Systems Problems (Part 2) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Gal Chechik, Christina Leslie, Quaid Morris, William Noble, Gunnar Raetsch, Koji Tsuda
Machine Learning in Computational Biology (Part 2) |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Hendrik Purwins, Xavier Serra, Klaus Obermayer
Music, Brain and Cognition. Part 2: Models of Sound and Cognition |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Kenji Fukumizu, Arthur Gretton, Alexander Smola
Representations and Inference on Probability Distributions |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Kevin Murphy, Lise Getoor, Eric Xing, Raphael Gottardo
Statistical Network Models |
| 7:30am - 6:30pm |
Virginia Savova, Josh Tenenbaum, Leslie Kaelbling, Alan Yuille
The Grammar of Vision: Probabilistic Grammar-Based Models for Visual Scene Understanding and Object Categorization |
| 8:30am - 5:30pm |
Jillian Fecteau, Dirk Walther, Vidhya Navalpakkam, John Tsotsos
Mechanisms of Visual Attention |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, Thore Graepel, Ralf Herbrich
Machine Learning and Games (MALAGA): Open Directions in Applying Machine Learning to Games |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Richard Lippman, Pavel Laskov
Machine Learning in Adversarial Environments for Computer Security |
| 9:00am - 5:00pm |
Sebastian Thrun, Chris Urmson, Raul Rojas, William Uther
The Urban Challenge – Perspectives of Autonomous Driving |
| 9:00am - 6:00pm |
Yael Niv, Matthew Botvinick, Andrew Barto
Hierarchical Organization of Behavior: Computational, Psychological and Neural Perspectives (Part 2) |
| 7:30 - 10:00pm |
Banquet and Wrap up Meeting |
