Apologies for cross-posting ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SHEFFIELD MACHINE LEARNING WORKSHOP Sheffield, United Kingdom Septemeber 7-10, 2004 www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/ml/workshop/ The Machine Learning Research Group in The Department of Computer Science at The University of Sheffield is organising a workshop on deterministic and statistical methods in machine learning, with a strong emphasis on mathematical and numerical methods. Confirmed invited speakers: Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research, UK) Andrew Blake (Microsoft Research, UK) Herve Bourlard (IDIAP, Switzerland) Andrzej Cichocki (RIKEN, Japan) Jerry Eriksson (Umea, Sweden) Zoubin Ghahramani (University College London, UK) Gene Golub (Stanford, USA) Josef Kittler (Surrey University, UK) David Lowe (Aston University, UK) David Mackay (Cambridge University, UK) Ian Nabney (Aston University, UK) Manfred Opper (Southhampton University, UK) David Lowe (Aston University, UK) John Platt (Microsoft Research, USA) Stephen Roberts (Oxford University, UK) Bernard Schoelkopf (Max Planck Institute, Germany) Michael Tipping (Microsoft Research, UK) Chris Williams (Edinburgh University, UK) The refereed proceedings of the conference which will be published by Springer in the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The workshop is supported by grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, the London Mathematical Society and Sheffield University. The workshop is expected to form part of the thematic programme for the PASCAL European Network of Excellence. For more details, contact the organisers: Joab Winkler Mahesan Niranjan Neil Lawrence E-mail: [log in to unmask] Department of Computer Science The University of Sheffield United Kingdom