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Reunion of David MacKay's Inference Group 13 March 2016 (Invitation Only) | Reunion of David MacKay's Inference Group 13 March 2016 (Invitation Only) | ||
09:30-11:00 | 09:30-11:00 Casual family brunch (with partners & kids) - arrive when you like | ||
11:00-11:15 Welcome from Martin Jones (Vice Master) & Alan Blackwell | 11:00-11:15 Welcome from Martin Jones (Vice Master) & Alan Blackwell | ||
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19:00 Dinner | 19:00 for 19:30 Dinner, preceded by drinks. (Dress code informal) |
Revision as of 07:17, 12 March 2016
Reunion of David MacKay's Inference Group 13 March 2016 (Invitation Only)
09:30-11:00 Casual family brunch (with partners & kids) - arrive when you like
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) [~10min]
- Sanjoy Mahajan (21st-century instructional design: Task-centered instruction) [~15min]
- Mark Gibbs (How to waste your PhD in an investment bank) [~15min]
- Keith Vertanen (Eyes Free Text Entry) [~15min]
- Matt Davey(Trading in Nanoseconds) [~15min]
12:30-14:30 Lunch break
14:30-15:30 talks II (scientific), chair Brendan Frey
- Philipp Hennig (Probabilistic Numerics) [~20min]
- Steve Gull (Bayes, MaxEnt and Thermodynamics) [~ideal: 15min]
- David Stern (Machine Learning in Go and the Stock Market) [~15min]
- Hanna Wallach (Poisson Tensor Factorization for International Relations) [~20min]
15:30-16:00 tea break
16:00-17:00 talks III (scientific), chair Iain Murray
- Ryan Adams (Performing Inference with Biomolecules) [~15min]
- Alan Lawrence (A Simple Inference at Google Scale) [~20min]
- Alex Selby (Solving the Eternity Puzzle) [~15mins]
- Edward Ratzer (Machine learning competitions) [~15min]
17:10-18:00 Music in the dining hall
- Graeme Mitchison and Helen Arnold
- Jossy Sayir and Elizabeth Blackwell
- Christian Steinruecken
- Darwin College Choir
19:00 for 19:30 Dinner, preceded by drinks. (Dress code informal)