ICML 2011 – Call for Participation

The 28th International Conference on Machine Learning
Bellevue, WA, USA
June 28 – July 02, 2011

http://www.icml-2011.org

Early registration deadline: May 24, 2011

Registration: http://www.icml-2011.org/register.php
Hotel Room Reservation: http://www.icml-2011.org/venue.php

Accepted Papers: http://www.icml-2011.org/papers.php
Workshops: http://www.icml-2011.org/workshops.php
Tutorials: http://www.icml-2011.org/tutorials.php

The 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) will be held in
Bellevue, WA, USA, June 28 to July 02, 2011. ICML is the premier international
forum for machine learning researchers and practitioners from
academia, industry,
and government to share their ideas, research results and experiences.
The conference will include three days of technical presentations,
one day of tutorials, and one day of workshops. In addition, on June 27, 2011,
the conference will feature a symposium on “Machine Learning in Speech
and Language Processing”,
organized jointly with the Annual Meeting of the Association for
Computational Linguistics (ACL) and the International Speech Communication
Association (ISCA).

A banquet, outdoor social events, and a professional Women in Machine
Learning (WiML)
meeting will be organized in conjunction with the conference.

[PAPERS]

The conference will feature 152 technical papers. In addition to oral
presentations,
all papers will be showcased during evening poster sessions. A full listing
of accepted papers is available at:
http://www.icml-2011.org/papers.php

[INVITED SPEAKERS]

* Christopher Bishop, Microsoft Research Cambridge
* Hartmut Neven, Google
* Martin Nowak, Harvard University
* David Ferucci, IBM Research

[WORKSHOPS]

* Structured Sparsity: Learning and Inference
* New Developments in Imitation Learning
* Combining Strategies for Reducing the Label Cost
* Learning Architectures, Representations, and Optimization for Speech
and Visual Information Processing
* Online Trading of Exploration and Exploitation 2
* Planning and Acting with Uncertain Models
* Learning from Unstructured Clinical Text
* Machine Learning for Global Challenges
* Unsupervised and Transfer Learning

[TUTORIALS]

* Introduction to Bandits: Algorithms and Theory
* Machine Learning for Large Scale Recommender Systems
* Collective Intelligence and Machine Learning
* Learning Kernels
* Machine Learning in Ecological Science and Environmental Policy
* Machine Learning and Robotics

[LODGING / CONFERENCE VENUE]

The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Bellevue.
For the discounted ICML conference rate, book your hotel room at:
http://www.icml-2011.org/venue.php

[REGISTRATION]

Register early for discounted conference rates:
http://www.icml-2011.org/register.php

We hope to see you in Bellevue!

[ORGANIZING COMMITTEE]

General Chair:
Zoubin Ghahramani, University of Cambridge

Program Chairs:
Lise Getoor, University of Maryland, College Park
Tobias Scheffer, University of Potsdam

Local Arrangements Chairs:
Dragos Margineantu, Boeing Research & Technology
Tomas Singliar, Boeing Research & Technology

Workshop Chairs:
Jerry Zhu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Katherine Heller, University of Cambridge

Tutorial Chairs:
Francis Bach, INRIA
Ulf Brefeld, Yahoo! Research, Barcelona

Publicity Chair:
Prem Melville, IBM Research

Funding Chairs:
Alan Fern, Oregon State University
Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland, College Park

Scholarship Chair:
Jesse Davis, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Volunteers & Registration Chair:
Jim Schimert, Boeing Research & Technology

Publication Chairs:
Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland, College Park
Kilian Weinberger, Washington University, St. Louis

Joint ICML/ACL/ISCA Symposium Chairs:
Dan Roth, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hal Daumé III, University of Maryland, College Park
Geoff Zweig, Microsoft Research
Joseph Keshet, Toyota Technological Institute, Chicago