Machine Learning Summer School/Workshop 2009
University of Chicago

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Organizers Mikhail Belkin, Ohio State University Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago Steve Smale, TTI-C Supported by NSF Website is maintained by Kaushik Sinha

Please note: Videos of the talks are now available. The theme of this year's summer school is Theory and Practice of Computational Learning, to be held in conjunction with a research workshop on the same topic, during the period June 1-11, 2009 at International House, University of Chicago. The program will consist of a mixture of tutorial lectures and research talks. 3-4 hours of tutorial lectures will be held in the morning, and the reserarch talks in the afternoon. Confirmed tutorials Active Learning -- Rui Castro, Columbia Univ; Rob Nowak, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison Theory and Applications of Boosting -- Rob Schapire, Princeton University Compressed Sensing and Sparse representations -- Emmanuel Candes, Caltech Computational Learning Theory -- Sanjoy Dasgupta, UCSD Graphical Models and Applications -- Yair Weiss, Hebrew University Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines -- John Shawe-Taylor, UCL Manifold Methods -- Misha Belkin, Ohio State Univ; Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago Semi-supervised Learning -- Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Statistical Machine Learning -- Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Institute of Technology more tutorials are coming Summer School / Workshop Topics Kernel Methods and Support Vector Machines Semi-supervised and Active Learning Boosting and Ensemble methods Compressed Sensing and Sparse representations Manifold Methods and Geometry of Point Clouds Graphical Models Machine Learning in Computer Vision, Speech, Text and Natural Language Processing Learning in Neuroscience and Human Computer Interaction Student poster presentations Students and other participants will have an opportunity to present their work in one or more poster sessions. TTI Activity Center and Reception Each morning of the conference there will be a designated activity center, located in the new TTI building floors 4-5. The setting is almost luxurious with access between the 2 floors by bridges over a central atrium. The period will be approximately 8-12 am, in parallel with the tutorials. Some breakfast, refreshments and, of course, coffee, will be provided in the lounges and the cafe. Speakers and participants who do not attend the tutorials will be will be able to have informal discussions. Small seminars could be improvised. Several personal computers for e-mail and web browsing will be available. A reception for all participants is planned at TTI for Monday, June 1, 5pm - 7pm. Summer School Tutorial/ Workshop Speakers Yali Amit, University of Chicago Nina Balcan, Microsoft Ronen Basri, TTI-C Misha Belkin, Ohio State University Peter Bickel, University of California, Berkeley Avrim Blum, Carnegie Mellon University Emmanuel Candes, California Institute of Technology Rui Castro, Columbia University Frederic Chazal, INRIA, France Ronald Coifman, Yale University Sanjoy Dasgupta, University of California, San Diego Vin de Silva,Pomona College Tamal Dey, Ohio State University Herbert Edelsbrunner, Duke University Pedro Felzenszwalb, University of Chicago Yoav Freund, University of California, San Diego Stuart Geman, Brown University Robert Ghrist, University of Pennsylvania Maya Gupta, University of Washington, Seattle Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chmpaign Matthias Hein, Saarland University Anil Hirani, University of Illinois, Urbana-Chmpaign Ali Jadbabaie, University of Pennsylvania Tony Jebara , Columbia University Michael Jordan, University of California, Berkeley Sham Kakade, TTI-C Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Institute of Technology John Langford, Yahoo Research Yann LeCun, New York University Ann Lee, Carnegie Mellon University Yoonkyung Lee, Ohio State University Gilad Lerman, University of Minnesota Karen Livescu, TTI-C Mauro Maggioni, Duke University Michael Mahoney, Stanford University Stephane Mallat, Ecole Polytechnique David McAllester, TTI-C Peter McCullagh, University of Chicago Gary Miller, Carnegie Mellon University Elchanan Mossel, University of California, Berkeley Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University Partha Niyogi, University of Chicago Rob Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison Tommy Poggio, MIT Alexander Razborov, University of Chicago Lorenzo Rosasco, MIT Guillermo Sapiro, University of Minnesota Rob Schapire, Princeton University Greg Shakhnarovich, TTI-C Tao Shi, Ohio State University Vikas Sindhwani, IBM Amit Singer, Princeton University Stephen Smale, TTI-C Cristian Sminchisescu, University of Bonn Dan Spielman, Yale University John Shawe-Taylor, University College London Nati Srebro, TTI-C Matthew Stephens, University of Chicago Leslie Valiant, Harvard University Grace Wahba, University of Wisconsin-Madison DeLiang Wang, Ohio State University Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago Yair Weiss, Hebrew University Patrick Wolfe, Harvard University Stephen Wright, University of Wisconsin-Madison Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley Ding-Xuan Zhou, City University of Hong Kong Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Afra Zomorodian, Dartmouth College