Haifa Mini-workshop on Machine Learning: Theory and Practice, March 3-4, 2009
Prof. Martin Charles Golumbic
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Haifa Mini-workshop on Machine Learning: Theory and Practice
Sponsored by the Caesarea Rothschild Institute at the University of Haifa
and collocated at the Technion
Tuesday 3rd March 2009 - Technion, Taub Building Room 337
Wednesday 4th March 2009 - CRI, Univ. of Haifa, Education Bldg Room 570
Organized by Martin Golumbic, Larry Manevitz, Shaul Markovitch
and in affiliation of the with the Israeli Association for Artificial
Intelligence (IAAI)
* Please register if you intend to come for dinner or lunch
* Updates and further information at <www.cri.haifa.ac.il>
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Schedule of the workshop
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Tuesday 3rd March 2009: Room 337 Taub Building, Technion, Haifa
14:00-15:15: Shai Ben David, University of Waterloo, Canada
The Theory-Practice Interplay in Machine Learning Emerging
Theoretical Challenges
Break
15:45-16:15 Malik Yousef, Institute of Applied Research, The Galilee
Society, Israel
Development of New Computational Approaches for the Analysis of
Gene Expression Datasets and Discovering Significant Networks Genes
16:30-17:15: Ohad Shamir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Vox Populi: On Learning from Crowds
17:15-18:00: Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin
Machine Learning on Physical Robots
20:00 Dinner at the Holiday Inn Hotel
For reservations see below
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Wednesday 4th March 2009: Room 570 Education Building, CRI, Univ. of Haifa
9:30-10:15 Naphtali Tishby, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Predictive Information, Learning, and the Perception Action Cycle
10:15-11:00: Yehuda Koren, Yahoo
Collaborative Filtering with Temporal Dynamics
Break
11:30-12:15 Shai Ben-David, University of Waterloo, Canada
Learning when the Training and Application Domains Differ
- Extending Theory to "Dirty" Realistic Scenarios
12:15-13:00: Noam Slonim, IBM
Active Online Learning via a Maximally Informative Classifier
13:00-14:15 Lunch at the CRI
14:15-15:00 Daphna Weinshall, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Beyond Novelty Detection: Incongruent Events, when General and Specific
Classifiers Disagree
15:00-15:45: Shie Mannor, Technion, Haifa
All Learning is Robust
Break
16:00-16:45 Shaul Markovitch, Technion, Haifa
Anytime Learning of Anycost Classifiers
16:45-17:30 Amir Globerson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
To be announced
Registration is free and includes lunch at CRI on Wednesday for those
registered in advance. Dinner Tuesday at the Holiday Inn is 110 NIS.
Please send email to Danielle Friedlander <dfr...@univ.haifa.ac.il>.
Special overnight hotel rates are also available. Subsidies are available
for advanced full-time thesis students upon the recommendation of their
thesis advisors.
* Updates and further information at <www.cri.haifa.ac.il>