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Registration Desk

12 pm - 8 pm Sunday
7:00 am - 6 pm Monday - Friday
7:00 am - noon Saturday

Monday Dec 5th Tutorials:

8:30-10:30am  Tutorial 1

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break

11:00-1pm  Tutorial 2

1:00 - 2:30 Lunch on your own.  

2:30-4:30pm  Tutorial 3

4:30 - 5:00 Coffee break

5:00 - 5:30 Opening Remarks

5:30 - 6:20 Invited talk, Yann LeCun (Facebook)

6:30 – 9:30 Opening reception and Posters

Tuesday Dec 6th:

9:00-9:50 - Drew Purves(Deep Mind)

9:50 - 10:10 Award talk - Value Iteration Networks

10:10 - 10:40  Coffee break 

10:40 am - 12:20 pm  Parallel Tracks on "Clustering" and "Graphical Models"

12:20 - 3:00 Lunch on your own and poster viewing

3:00 - 3:50 Saket Navlakha (The Salk Institute)

3:50 - 4:20  Coffee break 

4:20 pm – 6:00  pm  Parallel Tracks on "Deep Learning" and "Theory"

6:00 – 9:30pm  Poster session and Demonstrations

Wednesday Dec 7th:

9:00 - 9:50 Kyle Cranmer (NYU)

9:50 - 10:10 Award talk - Matrix Completion has No Spurious Local Minimum

10:10 - 10:40   Coffee break 

10:40 am - 12:20 pm  Parallel Tracks on "Algorithms" and "Applications" 

12:20 - 3:00 Lunch on your own and poster viewing

3:00-3:50 pm Marc Raibert (Boston Dynamics)

3:50 - 4:20   Coffee Break 

4:20 pm – 6:00 pm  Parallel Tracks on "Deep Learning" and "Optimization" 

6:00 – 9:30 Poster session and Demonstrations

Thursday Dec 8th:

9:00  - 9:50  Irina Rish (IBM)

9:50 - 10:40  Susan Holmes (Stanford)

10:40  - 11:10  Coffee break 

11:10 am - 12:20 pm   Parallel Tracks on "Interpretable Models" and "Neuroscience/Cognitive" 

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 9:30  Symposia

4:00 -4:30 coffee break

4:30 - 6:30 Symposia

6:30 - 7:30 light dinner

7:30 - 9:30 Symposia

Friday/Saturday Workshops.

Each workshop has it's own schedule, check the website -

10:30 – 11:00 coffee break

3:00 – 3:30 coffee break

Food

Breakfast is not provided. 

Tapas at the Monday evening reception.

Light snacks during the poster sessions.

Thursday, light dinner, sandwiches

Tapas at the Saturday evening reception at 6:30 pm on level P0.