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Registration Desk
2 pm - 8 pm Sunday
7:00 am - 8 pm Monday - Friday
7:00 am - noon Saturday
Food
Breakfast is not provided.
Monday reception at 6:30 in the Hall B, Hall C, and Promenade Lobby
Tuesday and Wednesday, finger food at the poster sessions.
Thursday, light snack break during the Symposia
Reception on Saturday evening reception at 6:30 in the Pacific Ballroom featuring The Imposteriors
Monday Dec 4th Tutorials:
7:00 - 8:00 Coffee break
8:00-10:15 Tutorial 1
10:15 - 10:45 Coffee break
10:45 -1:00 Tutorial 2
1:00 - 2:30 Lunch on your own
2:30-4:45 Tutorial 3
4:45 - 5:00 Quick break
5:00 - 5:30 Opening Remarks
5:30 - 6:20 Invited Talk: John Platt: Energy Strategies to Decrease CO2 Emissions
6:30 – 10:30 pm Opening Reception and Posters
Tuesday Dec 5th:
7:30 - 9:00 Coffee
9:00-9:50 - Invited Talk: Brendan Frey: Why AI Will Make it Possible to Reprogram the Human Genome
9:50 - 10:10 Test of Time Award
10:10 - 10:40 Coffee break
10:40 - 12:00 Parallel Tracks on Algorithms and Optimization
12:00 - 1:50 Lunch on your own and poster viewing
1:50 - 2:40 Invited Talk: Kate Crawford: The Trouble wih Bias
2:40 - 2:50 Quick break
2:50 – 3:50 Parallel Tracks on Algorithms, Optimization and Theory
3:50 - 4:20 Coffee Break
4:20 - 6:00 Parallel Tracks on Deep Learning, Applications and Algorithms
6:00 - 7:00 Light snack for poster viewing
7:00 – 10:30 Poster session and Demonstrations
Wednesday Dec 6th:
7:30 - 9:00 Coffee break
9:00 - 9:50 Invited Talk: Lise Getoor: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Structure
9:50 - 10:20 Coffee break
10:20 am - 12:00 Parallel Tracks on Theory, Probablilistic Methods and Deep Leaning
12:00 - 1:50 Lunch on your own and poster viewing
1:50 - 2:40 Invited Talk: Pieter Abbeel: Deep Learning for Robotics
2:40 -2:50 Quick Break
2:50 – 3:50 Parallel Tracks on Reinforcement Learning, Deep Learning and Optimiztion
3:50 - 4:20 Coffee Break
4:20 - 6:00 Parallel Tracks on Reinforcement Learning, Algorithms, Applications and Probabilistic Methods, Applications
6:00 - 7:00 Light snack for poster viewing
7:00 – 10:30 Poster session and Demonstrations
Thursday Dec 7th:
7:30 - 9:00 Coffee break
9:00 - 9:50 Invited Talk: Yael Niv: Learning State Representations
9:50 - 10:40 Invited Talk: Yee Whye Teh: On Bayesian Deep Learning and Deep Bayesian Learning
10:40 - 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 am - 12:30 Parallel Tracks on Neuroscience and Deep Learning, Algorithms
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch on your own
Symposia - 2:00 - 9:30pm
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 -
7:00 - 8:30 Coffee break
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee break
12:00 to 2:00 Lunch on your own
3:00 – 3:30 Coffee break
6:30 - 10:30 Saturday night reception and dancing.