Montreal Workshop and Spring School on Artificial Neural Networks and Learning Algorithms

April 15-30 1996

Centre de Recherche Mathématique, Université de Montréal

Centre de recherches mathématiques

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This workshop and concentrated course on artificial neural networks and learning algorithms is organized by the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques of the University of Montreal (Montreal, Quebec, Canada). The first week of the the workshop will concentrate on learning theory, statistics, and generalization. The second week (and beginning of third) will concentrate on learning algorithms, architectures, applications and implementations.



The organizers of the workshop are Bernard Goulard (Montreal), Yoshua Bengio (Montreal), Bertrand Giraud (CEA Saclay, France) and Renato De Mori (McGill).


The invited speakers are G. Hinton (Toronto), V. Vapnik (AT&T), M. Jordan (MIT), H. Bourlard (Mons), T. Hastie (Stanford), R. Tibshirani (Toronto), F. Girosi (MIT), M. Mozer (Boulder), J.P. Nadal (ENS, Paris), Y. Le Cun (AT&T), M. Marchand (U of Ottawa), J. Shawe-Taylor (London), L. Bottou (Paris), F. Pineda (Baltimore), P. Refenes (London), S. Bengio (INRS Montreal), J. Cloutier (Montreal), S. Haykin (McMaster), M. Gori (Florence), J. Pollack (Brandeis), S. Becker (McMaster), Y. Bengio (Montreal), S. Nowlan (Motorola), P. Simard (AT&T), G. Dreyfus (ESPCI Paris), P. Dayan (MIT), N. Intrator (Tel Aviv), B. Giraud (France), H.P. Graf (AT&T).




Summaries of most of the speakers presentations can be found here, or accessed by clicking on the individual speakers in the program below.




These summaries also contain pointers to relevant litterature and home pages of the speakers on the Web. The references page can also be directly accessed from here.


Tentative schedule


The lectures will take place in room 5340 (5th floor) of the Pavillon Andre-Aisenstadt on the campus of the Universite de Montreal (also known as the Pavillon des sciences mathematiques et informatiques).


Week 1
Introduction, learning theory and statistics


April 15:
April 16:
April 17:
April 18:
April 19:

Week 2 and 3
Algorithms, architectures and applications

April 22:
April 23:
April 24:
April 25:
April 26:
April 29:
April 30:



Registration information:


The number of participants will be limited, on a first-come first-served basis. Please register early! Fill and send the registration form
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    For more information, contact Louis Pelletier, pelletl@crm.umontreal.ca 514-343-2197

    Centre de Recherche Mathématique, Université de Montréal, C.P. 6128, Succ. Centre-Ville, Montreal, Quebec, H3C-3J7, Canada.





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    Last update: 12 Mar 96
    Francois GINGRAS gingras@IRO.UMontreal.CA
    Yoshua BENGIO bengioy@IRO.UMontreal.CA