Preliminary Technical Programme (Draft)
4 September, 2011 (Sunday)- 6 p.m. - 9.00 p.m.
Academic Research and commercial presentations, exhibits and cocktail
Sherwell Centre
(All students should bring posters describing their research. A best poster prize will be judged by Prof. John Oommen and a panel of judges)
MONDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
5 Sept 2011 |
9.00 – 10 a.m. |
Prof. Richard Everson, Univ. of Exeter |
Multivariate Statistics: Data Description |
5 Sept 2011 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m. |
Prof. Richard Everson, Univ. of Exeter |
Multivariate Statistics: Data Modelling |
5 Sept 2011 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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5 Sept 2011 |
11.30-12.30 p.m. |
Dr. David Barber, University College London |
Reasoning and Leaning with Graphical Models |
5 Sept 2011 |
12.30- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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5 Sept 2011 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Dr. David Barber, University College London |
Reasoning and Leaning with Graphical Models |
5 Sept 2011 |
2.45-3.45 p.m. |
Dr. David Barber, University College London |
Reasoning and Leaning with Graphical Models |
5 Sept 2011 |
3.45-4.15 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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5 Sept 2011 |
4.15- 5.15 p.m. |
Dr. Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research |
Factor-Graphs - Modelling, Inference, and Applications |
5 Sept 2011 |
5.15-6.45 p.m. |
Dr. Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research |
Factor-Graphs - Modelling, Inference, and Applications
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TUESDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
6 Sept 2011 |
9.00 – 10.00 a.m. |
Dr. Colin Campbell, University of Bristol |
Neural Networks |
6 Sept 2011 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m |
Dr. Colin Campbell, University of Bristol |
Principles of Syntactic Pattern Recognition |
6 Sept 2011 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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6 Sept 2011 |
11.30-12.30 p.m. |
Prof. John Oommen, Carleton University, Canada |
Chaotic Pattern Recognition |
6 Sept 2011 |
12.30- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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6 Sept 2011 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Prof. John Shawe-Taylor, University College London |
Kernel Based Methods |
6 Sept 2011 |
2.45-3.45 p.m. |
Prof. John Shawe-Taylor, University College London |
Kernel Based Methods |
6 Sept 2011 |
3.45-4.15 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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6 Sept 2011 |
4.15- 5.15 p.m. |
Prof. Prof. John Oommen, Carleton University, Canada |
Principles of Syntactic Pattern Recognition |
6 Sept 2011 |
5.15- 6.15 p.m. |
Prof. Prof. John Oommen, Carleton University, Canada |
Principles of Syntactic Pattern Recognition |
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WEDNESDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
7 Sept 2011 |
9.00-10.00 a.m. |
Dr. Andrew Webb, AW Consulting Services |
Decision Trees |
7 Sept 2011 |
10.00-11.00 a.m. |
Dr. Andrew Webb, AW Consulting Services |
Data Clustering |
7 Sept 2011 |
11.00-11.30 a.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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7 Sept 2011 |
11.30- 12.30 a.m. |
Prof. Richard Everson, University of Exeter |
Data Dimensionality Reduction |
7 Sept 2011 |
12.30 –1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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7 Sept 2011 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Prof. Richard Everson, University of Exeter |
Data Dimensionality Reduction |
7 Sept 2011 |
3.00 p.m. –. |
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Plymouth Walk (assemble outside lecture hall) |
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THURSDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
8 Sept 2011 |
9.00 – 10.00 a.m. |
Prof. Sameer Singh, Loughborough University |
Estimating Classification Complexity |
8 Sept 2011 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m. |
Dr. Jeremy Wyatt, Univ. of Birmingham |
Re-inforcement Learning I |
8 Sept 2011 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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8 Sept 2011 |
11.30-12.30 p.m. |
Dr. Jeremy Wyatt, Univ. of Birmingham |
Re-inforcement Learning II |
8 Sept 2011 |
12.30- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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8 Sept 2011 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Dr. Philip Jackson, Univ. of Surrey |
Hidden Markov Models |
8 Sept 2011 |
2.45-3.45 p.m. |
Dr. Philip Jackson, Univ. of Surrey |
Hidden Markov Models |
8 Sept 2011 |
3.45-4.15 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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8 Sept 2011 |
4.15- 5.15 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Tino, University of Birmingham |
Evolutionary Computation |
8 Sept 2011 |
5.15- 6.15 p.m. |
Dr. Peter Tino, University of Birmingham |
Evolutionary Computation |
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FRIDAY
Date |
Time |
Speaker |
Topic |
9 Sept 2011 |
9.00 – 10 a.m. |
Prof. Ludmila Kuncheva, Univ. of Wales |
Combining Classifiers |
9 Sept 2011 |
10.00 – 11.00 a.m. |
Prof. Ludmila Kuncheva, Univ. of Wales |
Combining Classifiers |
9 Sept 2011 |
11.00 a.m.- 11.30 p.m. |
Tea and Discussion |
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9 Sept 2011 |
11.45-12.45 p.m. |
Prof. Mahesan Niranjan, Southampton University |
Classifier Performance |
9 Sept 2011 |
12.45- 1.45 p.m. |
Lunch |
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9 Sept 2011 |
1.45- 2.45 p.m. |
Prof. Mahesan Niranjan, Southampton University |
Algorithms for sequential problems |
9 Sept 2011 |
2.45-3.45 p.m. |
Prof. Josef Kittler, University of Surrey |
Feature Selection |
9 Sept 2011 |
3.45-4.45 p.m. |
Prof. Josef Kittler, University of Surrey |
Feature Selection and Extraction |
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