mlss 2012 - 21st Machine Learning Summer School

21st Machine Learning Summer School - Kyoto, Japan
August 27th (Mon) to September 7th (Fri) 2012

The 21st MLSS will take place in the central campus of
Kyoto University, in downtown Kyoto, Japan.
You are cordially invited to attend the MLSS for 10 days of
intensive lectures, short talks, poster presentations and social
events in the cultural center of Japan.

-- Website: www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mlss12/
-- Application website opens on January 16th (Mon).
-- Deadline for application: April 20th (Fri), 23:59 (PST).
-- Final notification: early May.
-- Dates: August 27th (Mon) to September 7th (Fri)
-- About the MLSS series: www.mlss.cc

The application website will open on January 16th (Mon), with
a deadline set on April 20th (Fri) at 23:59 (Pacific Standard Time).
Students with limited financial means and/or traveling from
locations far away from Japan are encouraged to apply
for financial support.
The school will provide tutorials on basic and advanced topics
of machine learning by leading researchers in the field.
This school is suitable for all levels and backgrounds, both
for people without previous knowledge in Machine Learning,
and those wishing to broaden their expertise in this area.

Confirmed Long Lectures:

* Francis BACH - Ecole Normale Superieure/ENS
* David BLEI - Princeton University
* Pedro DOMINGOS - University of Washington
* Arnaud DOUCET - University of Oxford
* Kenji FUKUMIZU - Institute of Statistical Mathematics
* Klaus-Robert MUELLER - Technische Universität Berlin
* Sasha RAKHLIN - University of Pennsylvania/Wharton
* Robert SHAPIRE - Princeton University
* Koji TSUDA - AIST Computational Biology Research Center
* Lieven VANDENBERGHE - University of California, LA
* Santosh VEMPALA - Georgia Tech
* Martin WAINWRIGHT - University of California, Berkeley

Confirmed Short Lectures and Talks:

* Shun-Ichi AMARI - RIKEN Brain Science Institute
* Kenji DOYA - Okinawa Institute of Technology
* Hang LI - Microsoft Research Asia
* Satoru IWATA - Kyoto University
* Masashi SUGIYAMA - Tokyo Institute of Technology
* Akimichi TAKEMURA - University of Tokyo
Please refer to www.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp/mlss12/ for updated information.

Organizers: Marco CUTURI, Akihiro YAMAMOTO,
Masashi SUGIYAMA