Preliminary Technical Programme
5 September, 2010 (Sunday)- 6.30- 9.00 p.m.
Poster presentation and cocktail
Sherwell Centre
(All students should bring posters describing their research. A best poster prize will be judged by Prof. Chris Bishop and a panel of judges)
MONDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
6 Sept 2010 |
9.00 – 10 a.m. |
Dr. Richard Everson, Univ. of Exeter |
Multivariate Statistics: Data Description |
6 Sept 2010 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m. |
Dr. Richard Everson, Univ. of Exeter |
Multivariate Statistics: Data Modelling |
6 Sept 2010 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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6 Sept 2010 |
11.30-12.30 p.m. |
Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Cambridge |
Latent Variables, Mixture Models and EM |
6 Sept 2010 |
12.30- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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6 Sept 2010 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Prof. Chris Bishop, Microsoft Cambridge |
Latent Variables, Mixture Models and EM |
6 Sept 2010 |
2.45-3.45 p.m. |
Dr. Carl Rasmussen, Univ. of Cambridge |
Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning |
6 Sept 2010 |
3.45-4.15 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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6 Sept 2010 |
4.15- 5.15 p.m. |
Dr. Carl Rasmussen, Univ. of Cambridge |
Gaussian processes for Machine Learning |
6 Sept 2010 |
5.15-6.45 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Tino, University of Birmingham |
Clustering and visualisation of high-dimensional
and structured data |
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TUESDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
7 Sept 2010 |
9.00 – 10.00 a.m. |
Prof. John Oomen, Carleton Univ. |
Chaotic Pattern Recognition |
7 Sept 2010 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m |
Prof. John Oomen, Carleton Univ. |
Principles of String Matching |
7 Sept 2010 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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7 Sept 2010 |
11.30-12.30 p.m. |
Prof. John Oomen, Carleton Univ. |
Principles of String Matching |
7 Sept 2010 |
12.30- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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7 Sept 2010 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Dr. Colin Campbell, Univ. of Bristol |
Support Vector Machines |
7 Sept 2010 |
2.45-3.45 p.m. |
Dr. Colin Campbell, University of Bristol |
Support Vector Machines |
7 Sept 2010 |
3.45-4.15 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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7 Sept 2010 |
4.15- 5.15 p.m. |
Prof. John Shawe-Taylor, Univ. College London |
Kernel Based Methods |
7 Sept 2010 |
5.15- 6.15 p.m. |
Prof. John Shawe-Taylor, Univ. College London |
Kernel Based Methods |
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WEDNESDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
7 Sept 2010 |
9.00-10.00 a.m. |
Dr. Andrew Webb, QinetiQ |
Decision Trees |
7 Sept 2010 |
10.00-11.00 a.m. |
Dr. Andrew Webb, QinetiQ |
Data Clustering |
7 Sept 2010 |
11.00-11.30 a.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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7 Sept 2010 |
11.30- 12.30 a.m. |
Prof. Joseph Kittler, Univ. of Surrey |
Feature Selection |
7 Sept 2010 |
12.30 –1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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7 Sept 2010 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Prof. Joseph Kittler, Univ. of Surrey |
Feature Selection |
7 Sept 2010 |
3.00 p.m. –. |
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Plymouth Walk (assemble outside lecture hall) |
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THURSDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
7 Sept 2010 |
9.00 – 10.00 a.m. |
Dr. Richard Everson, Univ. of Exeter |
Data Dimensionality Reduction |
7 Sept 2010 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m. |
Dr. Jeremy Wyatt, Univ. of Birmingham |
Re-inforcement Learning I |
7 Sept 2010 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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7 Sept 2010 |
11.30-12.30 p.m. |
Dr. Jeremy Wyatt, Univ. of Birmingham |
Re-inforcement Learning II |
7 Sept 2010 |
12.30- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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7 Sept 2010 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Dr. Philip Jackson, Univ. of Surrey |
Hidden Markov Models |
7 Sept 2010 |
2.45-3.45 p.m. |
Dr. Philip Jackson, Univ. of Surrey |
Hidden Markov Models |
7 Sept 2010 |
3.45-4.15 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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7 Sept 2010 |
4.15- 5.15 p.m. |
Prof. Xin Yao, Univ. of Birmingham |
Evolutionary Computation |
7 Sept 2010 |
5.15- 6.15 p.m. |
Prof. Xin Yao, Univ. of Birmingham |
Evolutionary Computation |
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FRIDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
7 Sept 2010 |
9.00 – 10 a.m. |
Dr. Ludmila Kuncheva, Univ. of Wales |
Combining Classifiers |
7 Sept 2010 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m. |
Dr. Ludmila Kuncheva, Univ. of Wales |
Combining Classifiers |
7 Sept 2010 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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7 Sept 2010 |
11.45-12.45 p.m. |
Prof. Mahesan Niranjan, Southampton University |
Classifier Performance |
7 Sept 2010 |
12.45- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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7 Sept 2010 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Prof. Mahesan Niranjan, Southampton University |
Algorithms for sequential problems |
7 Sept 2010 |
2.45-4.00 p.m. |
Prof. Sameer Singh, Loughborough University |
Estimating Classification Complexity |
7 Sept 2010 |
4.00 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion, and Conclusions |
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