Oxford meeting : NCAF

Time	Session	Supervisor
	In Mathematical Institute, Lecture Theatre 1	Session Chair: Ian Nabney
10:30	Registration and Coffee
11:00	Welcome	Ian Nabney (U. Aston) - NCAF Chair, Steve Roberts (U.Oxford) - Meeting Organizer
11:15	Structure discovery and scaling in Bayesian nonparametric models	Zoubin Gharamani (U. Cambridge)
12:00	Planets, pulsars and petabytes: machine learning in astrophysics	Steve Roberts (U. Oxford)
13:00	Lunch in Thom Building, Engineering and Science Department
	In Thom Building, Engineering and Science Department	Session Chair: Steve Roberts
14:00	Deep Gaussian Processes	Neil Lawrence (U. Sheffield)
14:45	Information gathering strategies for hydrothermal vent hunting	Richard Dearden (Schlumberger Gould Research)
15:30	Coffee
16:00	Novelty detection for early warning of patient deterioration	Lionel Tarassenko (U. Oxford)
16:45	Modelling and Identification of Nonlinear and Spatiotemporal Systems	Visakan Kadirmanathan (U. Sheffield)
15:30	Machine Learning Applications in Computational Biology	Mahesan Niranjan (U. Southampton)
16:15	A group photo session
16:30	Social Evening: Dinner at St. Anne's College, followed by punting from The Cherwell Boathouse

Time	Session	Supervisor
	In Thom Building, Engineering and Science Department	Session Chair: Andy Pryke
09:30	Deep-er Kernels	John Shawe - Taylor (UCL)
10:15	Bounds and Optimisation for Model Fitting	David Barber ( UCL)
11:00	Coffee
		Session Chair: Ian Nabney
11:30	Learning in the model space for sequential data - from temporal filters to sequence kernels and back.	Peter Tino (U. Birmingham)
12:15	Regularization of non-homogeneous dynamic Bayesian networks with global information-coupling based on hierarchical Bayesian models	Dirk Husmeier (U. Glasgow)
13:00	Lunch
		Session Chair: Rajesh Ransing
14:00	Visualising and understanding multi-objective league tables	Richard Everson (U. Exeter)
14:45	Transiently Synchronising Brain Networks	Mark Woolrich (U. Oxford)
15:30	Closure of meeting and Vote of Thanks

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