ICML 2012 - Final Call for Participation

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                         ICML 2012 - Call for Participation

       The 29th International Conference on Machine Learning
                                   Edinburgh, Scotland
                                 June 26 - July 1, 2012
                                   http://icml.cc/2012/
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Early registration deadline: May 13, 2012 (act fast, time is running out)

Registration: http://icml.cc/2012/registration
Hotel Room Reservation: http://icml.cc/2012/accommodation/

Workshops: http://icml.cc/2012/workshops/
Tutorials: http://icml.cc/2012/tutorials/

The 29th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will be
held in Edinburgh, Scotland, June 26 to July 1, 2012. ICML is the
premier international forum for machine learning researchers and
practitioners from academia, industry, and government to share their
ideas, research results and experiences.

The conference will include three days of technical presentations,
one day of tutorials, and two days of workshops. In addition, this
year the conference will co-located with the 25th Annual Conference
on Learning Theory (COLT 2012).

Accepted papers will each have an oral presentation as well as a
poster in an evening poster session. Awards will be given for papers
of outstanding quality. There will also be talks by several invited
speakers, and a banquet.

[INVITED SPEAKERS]

* Yann LeCun, New York University
* Sethu Muthukrishnan, Rutgers University
* David MacKay FRS, University of Cambridge

[WORKSHOPS]

ICML 2012 features a significantly expanded workshop program, with 19
workshops over two days. The workshops are:

* European Workshop on Reinforcement Learning (EWRL)
* Machine Learning for Clinical Data
* Inferning: Interactions between Inference and Learning
* Learning from User-generated Content (LUC)
* Machine Learning in Human Computation & crowdsourcing
* Music and Machine Learning
* Object, Functional and Structured Data: towards Next Generation
   Kernel-based Methods
* Online Advertising (AdML)
* Sparsity, Dictionaries and projections in ML and Signal Processing
* Statistical Relational Learning (SRL)
* Teaching ML
* Machine Learning in Genetics and Genomics (MLGG)
* Markets, Mechanisms and Multi-Agent Models
* Mining and Learning with Graphs (MLG)
* New Challenges for Exploration and Exploitation
* Optimization in Machine Learning
* Representation Learning
* RKHS and Kernel-based Methods
* Statistics, ML and Neuroscience (STAMLINS)

[TUTORIALS]

* Causal Inference – Conditional Independence and Beyond
* Mirror Descent and Saddle Point First Order Algorithms
* PAC-Bayesian Analysis in Supervised, Unsupervised, and
   Reinforcement Learning
* Performance Evaluation for Learning Algorithms: Techniques,
   Application and Issues
* Prediction, Belief, and Markets
* Probabilistic Topic Models
* Representation Learning
* Spectral Approaches to Learning Latent Variable Models
* Statistical Learning Theory in Reinforcement Learning and
   Approximate Dynamic Programming

[LODGING / CONFERENCE VENUE]

The conference will be held on campus at the University of Edinburgh.
A discounted rate for hotels is available through the Edinburgh
Convention Bureau. To receive the discounted rate, book your hotel
room at: http://icml.cc/2012/accommodation/

[REGISTRATION]

Register early for discounted conference rates:
http://icml.cc/2012/registration/

We hope to see you in Edinburgh!

[ORGANIZING COMMITTEE]

General Chair:
Andrew McCallum, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Program Chairs:
John Langford, Yahoo! Research
Joelle Pineau, McGill University

Local Chair:
Charles Sutton, University of Edinburgh

Workshop Chairs:
Francis Bach, INRIA
Irina Rish, IBM Research

Tutorial Chairs:
Rob Schapire, Princeton University
Olivier Chapelle, Yahoo! Research

Publication Chairs:
Kilian Weinberger, Washington University, St. Louis
Amir Globerson, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Publicity Chair:
Jingrui He, IBM Research

Scholarship Chair:
Jesse Davis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Funding Chairs:
S V N Vishwanathan, Purdue University

Volunteers and Registration Chair:
Iain Murray, University of Edinburgh

Local Organizing Committee:
Chris Williams, University of Edinburgh
Amos Storkey, University of Edinburgh
Guido Sanguinetti, University of Edinburgh
Sethu Vijayakumar, University of Edinburgh

Workflow Manager:
Mahdi Milani Fard, McGill University

Webmaster:
Francesco Figari, University of Edinburgh