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Inference Group : Doughnut Club 2003
(a.k.a. Inference Reading Club)
These are to be held in Room 911 on Thursday
mornings between
11-12:30 (unless announced otherwise).
Presenters are responsible for distributing documents (or links to
download them) by the Monday before
each meeting. They are also responsible for providing doughnuts (or
equivalent*).
Date | Topic | Presenter(s) |
8th May 9:30 |
Information Bottleneck |
John W.,Hanna, Phil |
15th May |
Gaussian Processes |
David M. |
22nd May |
Introduction to Bioinformatics |
Hanna, Phil |
29th May |
Gaussian Processes and Kernel Methods |
John W., Phil |
5th June |
Small world networks |
Hanna, Seb |
12th June |
postponed |
Seb, Ed |
Friday 20th June, 9.20am |
Coupled Oscillators |
Seb, Ed |
26th June, 10am |
Data Compression, Burrows-Wheeler transform |
David M., Ed |
3rd JulyPostponed |
Particle Filters |
John W., David M. |
10th July |
Sequential Decoding |
Ed, David M. |
? May take place in London |
Survey Propagation |
David M. |
24th July |
Reinforcement Learning (provisional) |
Phil, John W. |
Other topics which have been suggested but not yet scheduled:
- Statistics in Law Courts
- Boltzmann Machines
- Spying techniques
- Bayesian alternatives to frequentist methods
This page is maintained by John Winn (jmw39@cam.ac.uk).
*If you are unsure which foodstuffs are deemed to be equivalent
to
doughnuts, then use calorific value as a guide or contact John
Winn.
Previous Doughnut Clubs
Date | Topic | Presenters |
27th Feb |
Independent Component Analysis |
Alberto, John B., David K. |
6th Mar |
Learning the parameters of a graphical model EM, Neal +
Hinton |
Phil, David K. |
13th Mar |
Irrationality |
Sanjoy, Seb |
20th Mar |
Spectral Clustering SVD for clustering words,Google |
David M., Hanna |
27th Mar |
Infinite Models Infinite Gaussian mixtures, Dirichlet
processes etc. |
John W., David M. |
3rd Apr |
DELVE, applications Principled comparison of learning methods |
Phil, Hanna |
10th Apr |
CDMA Modulation etc. |
Ed, Alberto |
24th Apr |
Conditional Random Fields |
Hanna,? |
TBA |
Gaussian Processes |
Phil, John W. |
TBA |
Coupled Oscillators |
Seb, Ed |
TBA |
Hierarchical Bayes |
John B., ? |
TBA |
Gaussian Processes and Kernel Methods |
?,? |
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