LOD 2021 Call for Participation
The 7th Int. Conf. on Machine Learning, Optimization & Data Science – LOD 2021
October 4-8
The Wordsworth Hotel & Spa, Grasmere, Lake District, England, UK
The LOD 2021 Program
We encourage all researchers interested in deep learning, data science, optimization, ML and AI to join us at LOD2021! See below for details of invited plenary speakers.
Further information on registration and the conference schedule can be found at the conference website: https://lod2021.icas.cc
LOD 2021 Keynote Speakers
Ioannis Antonoglou, DeepMind, London, UK
“MuZero - Mastering Atari, Go, Chess and Shogi by Planning with a Learned Model”
Roberto Cipolla, University of Cambridge, UK
“Computer Vision: Geometry, Uncertainty and Deep Learning”
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, UK
“Artificial Intelligence in Biomedicine”
Verena Rieser, Heriot Watt University, UK
“Advances and Challenges in Conversational AI”
LOD 2021 Tutorial Speakers
Thomas Viehmann, MathInf GmbH, Germany
“Introduction to PyTorch”
ACAIN 2021 Lecturers
Timothy Behrens, Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford, UK
Lecture: “Representing the structure of problems in the frontal hippocampal circuitry”
Matthew Botvinick, DeepMind, London, UK & Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL, UK
Lecture: “Deep reinforcement learning and its neuroscientific implications”
Claudia Clopath, Computational Neuroscience Lab, Dept. of Bioengineering, Imperial College London, UK
Lecture: “Modelling learning in the brain”
Ila Fiete, Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences MIT, USA
Lecture 1: TBA
Lecture 2: TBA
Karl Friston, Institute of Neurology, University College London, UK & Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging
Lecture 1: “I am therefore I think”
Lecture 2: “Active inference and belief propagation in the brain”
Rosalyn Moran, Department of Neuroimaging, King’s College London, UK
Lecture 1: Active Inference, Case Studies on Neurobiology and Cognition
Lecture 2: Active Inference, Case Studies on a Neurobiologically Informed AI
Maneesh Sahani, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, UK
Lecture 1: TBA
Lecture 2: TBA
Jane Wang, DeepMind, London, UK
Lecture: TBA
ACAIN 2021 Tutorial Speaker
James C.R. Whittington, Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging, University of Oxford, UK
Tutorial: TBA
If you have any questions, please contact the chairs at: l...@icas.cc
PAST LOD KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA
Yoshua Bengio, Head of the Montreal Institute for Learning Algorithms (MILA) & University of Montreal, Canada
Bettina Berendt, TU Berlin, Germany & KU Leuven, Belgium, and Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany
Jörg Bornschein, DeepMind, London, UK
Michael Bronstein, Imperial College London, UK
Nello Cristianini, University of Bristol, UK
Peter Flach, University of Bristol, UK, and EiC of the Machine Learning Journal
Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy
Arthur Gretton, UCL, UK
Arthur Guez, Google DeepMind, Montreal, UK
Yi-Ke Guo, Imperial College London, UK
George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA
Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA
Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK
Angelo Lucia, University of Rhode Island, USA
George Michailidis, University of Florida, USA
Kaisa Miettinen, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Stephen Muggleton, Imperial College London, UK
Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA
Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt & Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany
Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA
Andrey Raygorodsky, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Russia
Mauricio G. C. Resende, Amazon.com Research and University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA
Raniero Romagnoli, CTO Almawave, Italy
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Carnegie Mellon University, USA, and AI Research at Apple
Maria Schuld, Xanadu & University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Vincenzo Sciacca, Almawave, Italy
My Thai, University of Florida, USA
Richard E. Turner, Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK
Ruth Urner, York University, Toronto, Canada
Isabel Valera, Saarland University, Saarbrücken & Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tübingen, Germany
See you in the beautiful Lake District - UK in October!
Best regards,
LOD 2021 Organizing Committee
Past Editions:
https://lod2021.icas.cc/past-editions/
LOD 2020, The Sixth International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data
Certosa di Pontignano – Siena – Tuscany – Italy. Nature Springer – LNCS volumes 12565 and 12566.
LOD 2019, The Fifth International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data
Certosa di Pontignano – Siena – Tuscany – Italy.
Nature Springer – LNCS volume 11943.
LOD 2018, The Fourth International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data
Volterra – Tuscany – Italy. Nature Springer – LNCS volume 11331.
MOD 2017, The Third International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data
Volterra – Tuscany – Italy. Springer – LNCS volume 10710.
MOD 2016, The Second International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data
Volterra – Tuscany – Italy. Springer – LNCS volume 10122.
MOD 2015, International Workshop on Machine learning, Optimization and big Data
Taormina – Sicily – Italy. Springer – LNCS volume 9432.
Past Keynote Speakers:
https://lod2021.icas.cc/past-keynote-speakers/
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