text_combined: douglas aberdeen litudsfpwrwcanueduau 2nd invitation machine learning summer school february 617 2006 canberra australia quick link httpcanberra06mlsscc early registration deadline closes 6th january since 2002 machine learning summer schools given opportunity leaders field ml lecture best students ml dates monday 6 february friday 17 february 2006 2 weeks location australian national university canberra australia early registration deadline extended 6th january 2006 target audience anyone starting field machine learning includes postgraduates postdocs machine learning statistics researchers entering field first time industry researchers speaker list includes olivier bousquet statistical learning theory tiberio caetano ml structural pattern recognition jochen garcke sparse grid methods thomas hofmann information retrieval rao kambhampati planning learning sathiya keerthi optimization kernel methods adam kowalczyk antilearning michael littman real world reinforcement learning klausrobert mueller brain computer interfacing bernhard scholkopf learning kernels nic schraudolph rapid stochastic gradient descent satinder singh reinforcement learning alex smola exponential families volker tresp dirichlet processes nonparametric bayesian modelling vishy vishwanathan kernels dynamic systems dr douglas aberdeen senior researcher thu 07 aug 2008 084212 1100 uai 2nd invitation machine learning summer school feb 2006