MLSS 2014 - The Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS)

The Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS) provides a premium venue for graduate students, researchers, and professionals to learn about fundamental machine learning and techniques at the forefront of research in the field. MLSS 2014 Beijing will feature an exciting program with talks from leading experts in the field.
MLSS 2014 Beijing will be held on June 15-20 and will be collocated with ICML 2014, on June 21-26. http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/mlss2014/
Important Dates
April 15, 2014, application submission deadline
April 25, 2014, notification of acceptance
May 15, 2014, early registration deadline
May 30, 2014, late registration deadline
June 15-20, 2014, MLSS 2014 Beijing
Speakers
Shai Ben-David (Universitys of Waterloo)
Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal)
Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University)
Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)
Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
Yi Ma (Microsoft Research Asia)
Sugiyama Masashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto)
Zhuowen Tu (University of California)
Raquel Urtasun (University of Toronto)
Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Kai Yu (Baidu)
Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Preliminary Program
June 15
Registration
June 16 (8:30-17:30)
Openning
Thomas G. Dietterich, Introduction to Machine Learning
Masashi Sugiyama, Unsupervised Learning
QA session
June 17 (8:30-17:30)
Xiaojin Zhu, Graphical Models and Kernel Machines
Mark Johnson, Natural Language Processing
Qiang Yang, TBD
QA session
June 18 (8:30-20:30)
Yi Ma, Sparse Representation and its Applications in Computer Vision
Kewei Tu, TBD
Raquel Urtasun, Structured Prediction for Scene Understanding
QA session
Banquet
June 19 (8:30-17:30)
Pedro Domingos, Learning Sum-Product Networks
Jure Leskovec, Networks
Shai Ben-David, Foundations of Clustering Theory
QA session
June 20 (8:30-17:30)
Yoshua Bengio, Representation Learning and Deep Nets
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Deep Learning
Kai Yu, TBD
QA session & Closing
Local Contacts
Jun He, hejun-AT-ruc.edu.cn
Ting Hu, huting-AT-ruc.edu.cn
Tel: 010-62512304
Organizers
Program Chairs:
Stephen Gould (Australian National University and NICTA, Australia)
Hang Li (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong)
Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)
Local Arrangement Chair:
Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China, China)
Registration Chair:
Jun He (Renmin University of China, China)
Scholarship Chair:
Yu-Feng Li (Nanjing University, China)
Web Chair:
Yue Zhu (Nanjing University, China)