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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Call for Participation: Machine Learning Summer School Beijing
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">(MLSS 2014)<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">The
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/mlss2014/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none">Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS)</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">
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. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">MLSS 2014 Beijing will be held on June 15-20 and will be collocated with
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://icml.cc/2014/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none">ICML 2014</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">,
on June 21-26. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/mlss2014/"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif"">http://lamda.nju.edu.cn/conf/mlss2014/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Important Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">April 15, 2014, application submission deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">April 25, 2014, notification of acceptance<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">May 15, 2014, early registration deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">May 30, 2014, late registration deadline<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">June 15-20, 2014, MLSS 2014 Beijing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Speakers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Shai Ben-David (Universitys of Waterloo)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Yoshua Bengio (University of Montreal)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Thomas G. Dietterich (Oregon State University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Pedro Domingos (University of Washington)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Mark Johnson (Macquarie University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Yi Ma (Microsoft Research Asia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Sugiyama Masashi (Tokyo Institute of Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Zhuowen Tu (University of California)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Raquel Urtasun (University of Toronto)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Qiang Yang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Kai Yu (Baidu)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Xiaojin (Jerry) Zhu (University of Wisconsin-Madison)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Preliminary Program
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">June 15<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Registration
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">June 16 (8:30-17:30)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Openning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Thomas G. Dietterich, Introduction to Machine Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Masashi Sugiyama, Unsupervised Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">QA session
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">June 17 (8:30-17:30)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Xiaojin Zhu, Graphical Models and Kernel Machines<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Mark Johnson, Natural Language Processing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Qiang Yang, TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">QA session
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">June 18 (8:30-20:30)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Yi Ma, Sparse Representation and its Applications in Computer Vision<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Kewei Tu, TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Raquel Urtasun, Structured Prediction for Scene Understanding<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">QA session
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Banquet<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">June 19 (8:30-17:30)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Pedro Domingos, Learning Sum-Product Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Jure Leskovec, Networks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Shai Ben-David, Foundations of Clustering Theory<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">QA session
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">June 20 (8:30-17:30)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Yoshua Bengio, Representation Learning and Deep Nets<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Deep Learning<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Kai Yu, TBD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">QA session & Closing<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Local Contacts<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Jun He,
</span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="mailto:hejun@ruc.edu.cn"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black;text-decoration:none">hejun@ruc.edu.cn</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Ting Hu,
<a href="mailto:huting@ruc.edu.cn">huting@ruc.edu.cn</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Tel: 010-62512304<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Organizers<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Program Chairs:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Stephen Gould (Australian National University and NICTA, Australia)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Hang Li (Huawei Noah's Ark Lab, Hong Kong)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Zhi-Hua Zhou (Nanjing University, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Local Arrangement Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Xiaoyong Du (Renmin University of China, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Registration Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Jun He (Renmin University of China, China)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin-top:3.75pt;line-height:16.55pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:black">Scholarship Chair:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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