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School on Large Scale Problems in Machine Learning and Workshop on Common Concepts in Machine Learning and Statistical Physics | (smr 2361)
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  • Monday, 20 August 2012
    • 08:30 - 09:45 Registration to the Workshop - Adriatico Guest House, lower level 1
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 08:30 Registration to the Workshop - Adriatico Guest House, lower level 1 1h15'
    • 09:45 - 10:00 Opening Remarks by Organizers
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:45 Opening Remarks by Organizers 15'
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - I 1h0'
        Speaker: M. OPPER (TU Berlin, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Kernel methods - I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Kernel methods - I 1h0'
        Speaker: G. LEVER (UC London, U.K.)
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - II 1h0'
        Speaker: M. OPPER (TU Berlin, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Kernel methods - II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Kernel methods - II 1h0'
        Speaker: G. LEVER (UC London, UK)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 19:30 - 21:00 WELCOME RECEPTION - Adriatico Terrace
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 19:30 WELCOME RECEPTION - Adriatico Terrace 1h30'
  • Tuesday, 21 August 2012
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - III
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - III 1h0'
        Speaker: M. OPPER (TU Berlin, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Bayesian nonparametrics - I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Bayesian nonparametrics - I 1h0'
        Speaker: Y.W. TEH (UC London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Bayesian nonparametrics - II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Bayesian nonparametrics - II 1h0'
        Speaker: Y.W. TEH (UC London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Kernel methods - III
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Kernel methods - III 1h0'
        Speaker: G. LEVER (UC London, U.K.)
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - IV
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Introduction to probabilistic and Bayesian inference - IV 1h0'
        Speaker: M. OPPER (TU Berlin, Germany)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Wednesday, 22 August 2012
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Kernel methods - IV
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Kernel methods - IV 1h0'
        Speaker: G. LEVER (UC London, U.K.)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Bayesian nonparametrics - III
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Bayesian nonparametrics - III 1h0'
        Speaker: Y.W. TEH (UC London, U.K.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - I 1h0'
        Speaker: M. WAINWRIGHT (UC Berkeley, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 POSTER SESSION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 14:00 POSTER SESSION 1h0'
    • 15:00 - 16:00 POSTER SESSION
      Location: Adriatico Guest House - Kastler Lecture Hall Area (Lower Level 1)
      • 15:00 POSTER SESSION 1h0'
  • Thursday, 23 August 2012
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Bayesian nonparametrics - IV
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Bayesian nonparametrics - IV 1h0'
        Speaker: Y.W. TEH (UC London, U.K.)
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - II 1h0'
        Speaker: M. WAINWRIGHT (UC Berkeley, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Machine Learning in systems biology - I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Machine Learning in systems biology - I 1h0'
        Speaker: O. WINTHER (DTU Lyngby & KU Copenhagen, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - III
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - III 1h0'
        Speaker: M. WAINWRIGHT (UC Berkeley, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Machine Learning in systems biology - II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Machine Learning in systems biology - II 1h0'
        Speaker: O. WINTHER (DTU Lyngby & KU Copenhagen, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
  • Friday, 24 August 2012
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Machine Learning in systems biology - III
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Machine Learning in systems biology - III 1h0'
        Speaker: O. WINTHER (DTU Lyngby & KU Copenhagen, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - IV
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Variational methods, duality and message-passing - IV 1h0'
        Speaker: M. WAINWRIGHT (UC Berkeley, U.S.A.)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Machine Learning in systems biology - IV
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Machine Learning in systems biology - IV 1h0'
        Speaker: O. WINTHER (DTU Lyngby & KU Copenhagen, Denmark)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:05 Afternoon Free
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Afternoon Free 5'
  • Monday, 27 August 2012
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - I 1h0'
        Speaker: B. KAPPEN (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
        Material: More information
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - I
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - I 1h0'
        Speaker: M.W. SEEGER (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - II 1h0'
        Speaker: B. KAPPEN (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
        Material: More information
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 15:00 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - II
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - II 1h0'
        Speaker: M.W. SEEGER (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 15:00 - 16:00 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - III
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:00 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - III 1h0'
        Speaker: B. KAPPEN (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
        Material: More information
  • Tuesday, 28 August 2012
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - III
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - III 1h0'
        Speaker: M.W. SEEGER (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 10:00 - 11:00 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - IV
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Stochastic optimal control theory and its link to statistical physics - IV 1h0'
        Speaker: B. KAPPEN (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
        Material: More information
    • 11:00 - 11:30 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:00 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:30 - 12:30 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - IV
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:30 Large scale variational Bayesian inference and decision making for continuous variable models - IV 1h0'
        Speaker: M.W. SEEGER (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: lecture notes
    • 12:30 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:30 Lunch break 1h30'
    • 14:00 - 14:05 Afternoon Free
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 Afternoon Free 5'
  • Wednesday, 29 August 2012
    • 09:00 - 10:00 Registration to the Workshop for NEW COMERS
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:00 Registration to the Workshop for NEW COMERS 1h0'
    • 10:00 - 10:10 Opening Remarks
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:00 Opening Remarks 10'
    • 10:10 - 10:50 The challenges and opportunities in using high-throughput data to understand how cells work
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:10 The challenges and opportunities in using high-throughput data to understand how cells work 40'
        Speaker: E. FRAENKEL (MIT Cambridge, U.S.A.)
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 12:00 On the first eigenvalue/eigenvector in sparse random symmetric matrices
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
    • 12:00 - 12:40 Spatially coupled codes
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Spatially coupled codes 40'
        Speaker: R. URBANKE (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
    • 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:40 Lunch break 1h20'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 GOING DATA-DRIVEN: From artificial intelligence to science and society
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:00 GOING DATA-DRIVEN: From artificial intelligence to science and society 40'
        Speaker: N. CRISTIANINI (Bristol, U.K.)
        Material: CRISTIANINI Nello Abstract.pdf
    • 14:40 - 15:20 Inferring mesoscopic structure in complex networks with message passing
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:40 Inferring mesoscopic structure in complex networks with message passing 40'
        Speaker: J. REICHARDT (Univ. Wurzburg, Germany)
        Material: REICHARDT Joerg Abstract.pdf
    • 15:20 - 15:50 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:20 Coffee break 30'
    • 15:50 - 16:30 Convergent and scalable algorithms for expectation propagation approximate Bayesian inference
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 15:50 Convergent and scalable algorithms for expectation propagation approximate Bayesian inference 40'
        Speaker: M.W. SEEGER (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
        Material: SEEGER Matthias Abstract.pdf
  • Thursday, 30 August 2012
    • 09:30 - 10:10 Network inference for directed graphs with stochastic hidden units
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 Network inference for directed graphs with stochastic hidden units 40'
        Speaker: J. HERTZ (Nordita, Copenhagen, Denmark)
        Material: HERTZ John Abstract.pdf
    • 10:10 - 10:50 Network reconstruction with hidden nodes
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 12:00 Some recent results on the inverse Ising problem
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Some recent results on the inverse Ising problem 40'
        Speaker: F. RICCI-TERSENGHI (La Sapienza, Roma, Italy)
    • 12:00 - 12:40 Polymer physics for route optimisation on the London underground
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Polymer physics for route optimisation on the London underground 40'
        Speaker: D. SAAD (Aston Univ., Birmingham, U.K.)
        Material: SAAD David Abstract.pdf
    • 12:40 - 14:00 Lunch break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:40 Lunch break 1h20'
    • 14:00 - 14:40 Variational methods in inference and optimisation
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
    • 14:40 - 15:20 Phenomenological study on spatial coupling
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 14:40 Phenomenological study on spatial coupling 40'
        Speaker: T. TANAKA (Graduate School of Informations, Kyoto University, Japan)
        Material: TANAKA Toshiyuki Abstract.pdf
    • 16:30 - 17:30 MAIN LECTURE HALL - LEONDARDO BUILDING COLLOQUIUM "Occam's Razar in Massive Data Acquisition: A statistical Physics Approach"
      Location: Leonardo da Vinci Building Main Lecture Hall
      • 16:30 MAIN LECTURE HALL - LEONDARDO BUILDING COLLOQUIUM "Occam's Razar in Massive Data Acquisition: A statistical Physics Approach" 1h0'
        Speaker: M. MEZARD (LPTMS, Univ. Paris Sud, France)
  • Friday, 31 August 2012
    • 09:30 - 10:10 The Variational Garrote
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 09:30 The Variational Garrote 40'
        Speaker: B. KAPPEN (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
    • 10:10 - 10:50 Perturbative corrections to expectation propagation
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:10 Perturbative corrections to expectation propagation 40'
        Speaker: M. OPPER (TU Berlin, Germany)
    • 10:50 - 11:20 Coffee break
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 10:50 Coffee break 30'
    • 11:20 - 12:00 Exchangeable random partitions, Bayesian inference and species sampling problems
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 11:20 Exchangeable random partitions, Bayesian inference and species sampling problems 40'
        Speaker: A. LIJOI (Pavia, Italy)
        Material: LIJOI Antonio Abstract.pdf
    • 12:00 - 12:40 Pseudo-likelihood maximization for the protein reconstruction problem
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:00 Pseudo-likelihood maximization for the protein reconstruction problem 40'
        Speaker: E. AURELL (KTH, Stockholm, Sweden)
    • 12:40 - 13:00 Closing Remarks
      Location: Adriatico Guest House Kastler Lecture Hall
      • 12:40 Closing Remarks 20'
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