Statistical Learning of Complex Data with Complex Distributions

Events

NIPS 2010 Workshop on Deep Learning and Unsupervised Feature Learning, December 10, 2010
Organizers: Honglak Lee, Marc'Aurelio Ranzato
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, Yann LeCun, and Andrew Ng.
Web:
Whistler, B.C.

Data mining (1-day workshop), April 19, 2010
Organizers:
Web: http://www.ssc.ca/en/ottawa/past-sso-events
Statistical Society of Ottawa.


Mining Network Data at Carleton University, March 19-20 2009
Organizers: Hugh Chipman
Web: http://math.acadiau.ca/nicds_dm/2009Ottawa.html
Over 20 researchers and students, including four members of partner organization CSEC(Communications Security Establishment Canada) participated in this research event designed to develop interest in the emerging area of modelling network data.
It was an opportunity to transfer research results to CSEC and to find out about emerging research opportunities at CSEC.

CIFAR NCAP Summer School, August 2009
Organizers: David Fleet et Geoff Hinton
Yoshua Bengio gave a class on deep architectures on August 6. Toronto, Canada, August 2009 .
Web: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~fleet/courses/cifarSchool09/index.html

Workshop on Learning Feature Hierarchies, ICML 2009
Organizers: Kai Yu, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Yann LeCun, Geoffrey E. Hinton and Yoshua Bengio.
Montreal, Canada, June 18, 2009.
Web: http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~rsalakhu/deeplearning/index.html

UdeM-McGILL-MITACS Machine Learning Seminars (2008-2009)
Organizers: Dumitru Erhan and Doina Precup.
Alterning between UdeM and McGill for the site of the presentation.
11 presentations.
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/article.php3?id_article=107

Workshop on Machine Learning for Health Care Applications 2008
In 2008, we co-organized the ICML/UAI/COLT 2008 Joint Workshop on Machine Learning for Health Care Applications,
in view of a partnership deal with Alberta Health Services.
Web: http://rlai.cs.ualberta.ca/openpages2/MLHealth

Deep Learning Workshop: Foundations and Future Directions at NIPS 2007
Organizers: Yoshua Bengio, Yann LeCun, Rusian Salakhutdinov and Hugo Larochelle.
Hyatt hotel, Vancouver, Canada, December 6th, 2007, 2pm-5:30pm.
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/twiki/bin/view.cgi/Public/DeepLearningWorkshopNIPS2007

UdeM-McGILL-MITACS Machine Learning Seminars (2007-2008)
Organizers: Dumitru Erhan and Doina Precup.
Alterning between UdeM and McGill for the site of the presentation.
23 presentations.
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/article.php3?id_article=107

Training and Research Workshop: High Performance Computing in the Mathematical Sciences
Co-organizer: Chipman, H.
July 2007
Attended by over 60 HQP and researchers. Although not directly linked to the MITACS project, the activity helped build research capacity in areas relevant to statistical learning, and had MITACS as one of the main co-sponsors of the event.

International Symposium on Business & Industrial Statistics
Organizer: Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Chair: Ali Gho dsi, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Special session on machine learning and data mining.
Azores, Portugal, Aug 2007.
http://www.isbis2007.uac.pt/pdf/Detailed%20Program%20ISBIS%202007.pdf page 14.

Joint Statistical Meetings
Organizer: Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Topic contributed session: "Nonparametric methods for complex and difficult data".
Salt Lake City, USA, Aug 2007.
http://www.amstat.org/meetings/jsm/2007/onlineprogram/index.cfm?fuseaction=activity_details&activityid=236&sessionid=202084

UdeM-McGILL-MITACS Machine Learning Seminars (2006-2007)
Organizers: Hugo Larochelle and Doina Precup.
Alterning between UdeM and McGill for the site of the presentation.
38 presentations.
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/article.php3?id_article=107

UdeM-McGILL-MITACS Machine Learning Seminars (2005-2006)
Organizers: Hugo Larochelle and Doina Precup.
Alterning between UdeM and McGill for the site of the presentation.
49 presentations.
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/article.php3?id_article=107

MITACS-LISA Statistics Learning Seminars (2004-2005)
Organizer: Hugo Larochelle.
15 presentations.
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/%7Elisa/seminaires/Mitacs2004_2005.html7

Kernels and Ensembles: A Workshop on Statistical Machine Learning and Data Mining
Presented by Mu Zhu, University of Waterloo.
Sydney, September 27th, 2006 and Adelaide, October 24th, 2006.
Program: http://www.statsoc.org.au/CPD/AusCanWorkshopInfo&Regn.pdf

Statistical and Machine Learning Summer School
Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Canada, May 23-27, 2006
Organizers: Hugh Chipman (Acadia University), Russell Steele (McGill University), Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal)
Web: http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/Machine06/index_e.html

Fields Institute Workshop on Data Mining
Fields Institute, Toronto, November 10-12, 2005
Organizers: Hugh Chipman (Acadia University), Antonio Ciampi (McGill University), Theodora Kourti (McMaster University), Helmut Kroger (Laval University) and Michael Vainder (Generation 5)
Web: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/NPCDS/05-06/data_mining/
Slides: http://euler.acadiau.ca/~hchipman/SpringSchool2006/

CIAR Manifold Learning Workshop
Neural Computation and Adaptive Perception group,
Omni Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada, April 25-26, 2005
Organizers: Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) and Sam Roweis (University of Toronto)
Web: http://www.ciar.ca/mtgs/meetings.nsf/meetings/0062--04-25-2005--ncapapril25-26-05 (requires CIAR login and password)

MITACS Workshop on Statistical Learning of Complex Data with Complex Distributions
Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, Université de Montréal, Canada, August 26, 2005
Organizer: Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal)
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/seminaires/Mitacs_Workshop_2005.html

Fields Institute Workshop on Data Mining Methodology and Applications
The Fields Institute, Toronto, Canada, October 28-30, 2004
Organizers: Hugh Chipman (University of Waterloo), Antonio Ciampi (McGill University), Michael Vainder (Generation 5)
Web: http://www.fields.utoronto.ca/programs/scientific/NPCDS/04-05/data_mining/


MITACS/PIMS Data Mining Workshop
Banff, Alberta, Canada, October 14-16, 2004
Organizers: Jim Brookes (MITACS) and Jeff Lucas (MITACS)
Web: http://www.pims.math.ca/birs/workshops/2004/04w2065/


IRIS Machine Learning Workshop
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, June 9, 2004
Organizers: Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) and Sam Roweis (University of Toronto)
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/workshop2004/


Workshop on Advances in Machine Learning
Montréal, Québec, Canada, June 8-11, 2003
Organizers: Yoshua Bengio, Balázs Kégl (Université de Montréal) and Doina Precup (McGill University)
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~lisa/workshop2003/


Workshop on Selecting and Combining Models with Machine Learning Algoritms
Montréal, Québec, Canada, April 11-14, 2000
Organizers: Yoshua Bengio (Université de Montréal) and Dale Schuurmans (University of Waterloo)
Web: http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~bengioy/crmworkshop2000/