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Latest revision as of 17:01, 18 March 2016
Reunion of David MacKay's Inference Group
Darwin College, 13 March 2016
09:30-11:00 Casual family brunch (with partners & kids)
11:00-11:15 Welcome from Martin Jones (Vice Master) & Alan Blackwell
11:15-12:30 talks I (less technical), chair Oliver Stegle
- Jossy Sayir (Teaching with David)
- Sanjoy Mahajan (21st-century instructional design: Task-centered instruction)
- Mark Gibbs (How to waste your PhD in an investment bank)
- Keith Vertanen (Eyes Free Text Entry)
- Matt Davey(Trading in Nanoseconds)
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 talks II (scientific), chair Brendan Frey
- Philipp Hennig (Probabilistic Numerics)
- Steve Gull (Bayes, MaxEnt and Thermodynamics)
- David Stern (Machine Learning in Go and the Stock Market)
- Hanna Wallach (Poisson Tensor Factorization for International Relations)
15:30-16:00 tea break
16:00-17:00 talks III (scientific), chair Iain Murray
- Ryan Adams (Performing Inference with Biomolecules)
- Alan Lawrence (A Simple Inference at Google Scale)
- Alex Selby (Solving the Eternity Puzzle)
- Seb Wills (Building a distributed calculation engine)
- Edward Ratzer (Machine learning competitions)
17:10-18:00 Music in the dining hall
- Graeme Mitchison (piano) and Helen Arnold (soprano)
- Darwin College Music Society (vocal group)
- Christian Steinruecken (piano and voice)
- Jossy Sayir (saxophone) and Elizabeth Blackwell (guitar)
19:00 for 19:30 Dinner, preceded by drinks.
