A postdoc position for one year is open to the Hubert Curien Laboratory (Saint-Etienne
– France) on the theme of “Learning Graph Grammars”.
Description of the job : http://labh-curien.univ-st-etienne.fr/~fj/postDocPositionLaHC.html
The deadline for application is June 13, 2011 so if you are interested please contact me
urgently by email.
Best regards
François Jacquenet
BAYES-250 WORKSHOP
Edinburgh, Scotland
5-7 Sept 2011
http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/bayes250
The Schools of Mathematics and of Informatics at The University of
Edinburgh are holding a research workshop to mark the 250th
anniversary of the death of Thomas Bayes, a former student of the
University of Edinburgh. The workshop will run from early afternoon
on Monday 5th to late morning on Wednesday 7th September. The general
theme of the workshop is that of what has come to be known as Bayesian
statistics.
David Dunson (Duke University, USA) will be giving a keynote lecture.
Other confirmed workshop speakers include: Christophe Andrieu
(Bristol), Zoubin Ghahramani (Cambridge), Michael Goldstein (Durham),
Simon Godsill (Cambridge), Peter Green (Bristol), Chris Holmes
(Oxford), Neil Lawrence (Sheffield), Carl Rasmussen (Cambridge),
Christian Robert (Paris), Jim Smith (Warwick), Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle),
John Winn (Cambridge).
There will also be a general interest public lecture in the late
afternoon of Monday 5th September by Professor David Spiegelhalter
FRS, Winton Professor of the Public Understanding of Risk at The
University of Cambridge, at which all attending the workshop are
invited to attend.
There are a number of places still open for attendance at the
workshop. Participation is by invitation only. We encourage anyone who
is interested to apply for an invitation by sending an
email to bayes250app(at)gmail.com with the following information.
Name:
Affiliation:
Position:
Web site:
Please indicate if you are a PhD student, postdoc, or early career researcher.
Dietary requirements for lunch:
Please give a few sentences about your reasons for requesting attendance.
For full consideration applications should be received by Thursday 23
June. There is no registration fee. However, we regret that we do
not have funds available to cover the travel or accommodation of
participants.
For more information see
http://conferences.inf.ed.ac.uk/bayes250/
Colin Aitken (School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh)
Charles Sutton (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
Chris Williams (School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh)
There are two positions available at level B or C (lecturer or senior lecturer level) in the Research School of Computer Science at the ANU
More details available at
http://jobs.anu.edu.au/PositionDetail.aspx?p=2043
There is a two year post-doctoral position available at the University
of Sheffield, UK to work with Magnus Rattray and Neil Lawrence on
machine learning methods applied to computational biology data. The
project is part of a European-wide consortium with collaborators in
Germany, Finland and the Netherlands. The successful applicant will
join an active group based in a new building (opened November 2010) as
part of the Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience.
More details on the application are available here:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACS473/research-associate/
The post is funded as part of a large inter-disciplinary European
consortium project on systems approaches to gene regulation biology
through nuclear receptors (SYNERGY) which has been funded under the
EraSysBio+ initiative.
If you want further details please contact Neil or Magnus.
First International Workshop on
Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011)
in conjunction with Interspeech 2011
September 1st, 2011, Florence, Italy
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/workshop
*PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION*
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/programme.html
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/registration.html
*OVERVIEW*
CHiME 2011 is an ISCA-approved satellite workshop of Interspeech 2011 that will consider the challenge of developing machine listening applications for operation in real-world multisource environments. CHiME will bring together researchers from a broad range of disciplines (computational hearing, blind source separation, speech recognition, machine learning) to discuss novel and established approaches to this problem. The cross-fertilisation of ideas will foster fresh approaches that efficiently combine the complementary strengths of each research field.
As a focus for discussion during the day, the workshop will act as host to the PASCAL CHiME Speech Separation and Recognition Challenge. This real-world challenge attracted 13 submissions from different research groups spanning all of the above disciplines. Many of these submissions achieved impressive keyword error rate reduction up to 80% compared to the baseline.
See the provisional list of accepted papers:
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/programme.html
*REGISTRATION*
To register, please visit
http://spandh.dcs.shef.ac.uk/projects/chime/workshop/registration.html
The registration fee is 45 UK pounds (roughly 50 euros) and includes admission to the sessions, electronic proceedings, buffet lunch, and tee and coffee breaks. Registration must be made online by credit-card payment (there will be no onsite registration).
*VENUE*
The workshop is taking place at the Interspeech 2011 venue on the day after Interspeech finishes, Thursday 1st September. Information about accommodation and how to get to and from the venue can be found on the main Interspeech website
http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/visitorinfo.php
http://www.interspeech2011.org/conference/accomodation.php
See you in Florence.
Best regards,
CHiME Organising Committee
Dr Jon Barker, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr Emmanuel Vincent, INRIA Rennes, France
Prof. Dan Ellis, Columbia University, USA
Prof. Phil Green, University of Sheffield, UK
Dr. John Hershey, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, USA
Prof. Walter Kellermann, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany
Prof. Hiroshi Okuno, Kyoto University, Japan
We are seeking a highly creative and motivated postdoctoral Research Associate to join the Machine Learning Group (http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk) in the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK, working with Professor Zoubin Ghahramani. The research area for this position is Bayesian Machine Learning and the position is funded through an EPSRC project on Advanced Bayesian Computation for Cross-Disciplinary Research. The aim of this project is to develop novel algorithms for probabilistic modelling applicable across a range of physical, biological and social sciences. The project is a collaboration between Cambridge (Engineering), Warwick (Systems Biology), Sussex (Astronomy), and Kent (Statistics). The position will be for two years, starting September 1, 2011 or soon afterwards, with possible extension for a further year.
The successful applicant will have or be near completing a PhD in computer science, engineering, statistics or a related area, and will have extensive research experience and a strong publication record in statistics, probability, or machine learning. Preference will be given to applicants with some experience in large-scale modelling with Bayesian methods, non-parametric Bayesian models, and approximate inference.
Applications must be sent by email to Diane Unwin, dsu21(at)cam.ac.uk, and must include a brief letter of application, a CV including a list of publications in pdf format, and names and email addresses of 2-3 referees. The cover sheet for applications, PD18 is available from http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/forms/pd18/. Applications should be sent so as to reach us not later than ** July 5th, 2011. **
The University is committed to equality of opportunity
Zoubin Ghahramani
Professor of Information Engineering
University of Cambridge
http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/zoubin/
The Cyclotron Research Centre (CRC) at the University of Liège is recruiting a PhD student with a background in engineering, biomedical engineering or computer sciences for a project on multivariate data-driven diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease (see project description here)
Applications are welcome from overseas as well as from EU nationals (working languages in the laboratory are French and English). Employment can begin immediately. Salary is commensurate with that of PhD fellowships at the University of Liège. The project is initially funded for 2 years, with possibilities for further extension up to 4 years. The position will be advertised until filled. The CRC offer an exciting and friendly multi-disciplinary research environment with ample opportunities for training and collaboration, and excellent technical facilities.
Application should be made electronically. Please submit your CV, copies of all relevant degrees, a statement of interest, and the names and email addresses of two referees to the following address:
ggarraux(at)ulg.ac.be
We are pleased to announce the launch of the PASCAL2 “Machine Learning for Multimodal Interaction” (MLMI) Thematic Programme. The objective of this theme is to explore the opportunities and challenges entailed by adapting conventional machine learning techniques to multimodal interactive systems and advanced man-machine interfaces. In particular, it will focus on the VideoLectures.NET repository and its need for advanced tools to give users the most appropriate material in a staged and accessible fashion.
PASCAL2 members are invited to apply for funding of events related to the MLMI theme. Please visit http://users.dsic.upv.es/~pascal2-upv for more details.
Best regards,
Alfons Juan
We are running the PASCAL Visual Object Classes Recognition Challenge
again this year. As in 2010 there are 20 object classes for the main
competitions. Participants can recognize any or all of the classes,
and there are classification, detection and pixel-wise segmentation
competitions. This year the action classification taster competition
has a new “other” category, and there is also a taster competition on
person layout (detecting head, hands, feet). There is also an
associated large scale visual recognition taster competition organized
by www.image-net.org.
We remind users that the PASCAL VOC Challenge evaluation server
is available at http://host.robots.ox.ac.uk:8080/ and is currently providing
evaluations and downloads for the VOC 2008, 2009 and 2010 challenges.
The development kit (Matlab code for evaluation, and baseline algorithms)
and training data is now available at:
http://pascallin.ecs.soton.ac.uk/challenges/VOC/voc2011/index.html
where further details are given. The timetable of the challenge is:
* 25 May 2011: Development kit (training and validation data plus
evaluation software) made available.
* June 2011: Test set made available.
* 10 October 2011. Deadline for submission of results.
* 7 November 2011: Workshop in association with ICCV 2011, Barcelona.
Mark Everingham
Luc Van Gool
Chris Williams
John Winn
Andrew Zisserman
Department of Physics and Astronomy, UCL
*** Vacancy Information ***
A 3 year PhD studentship is available within the Physics and Astronomy Department, University College London, supervised by Dr Serena Viti. The studentship is available to start from 1st October 2011, or as soon as possible thereafter. The studentship is co-funded by Columba Systems Ltd, a London-based company that provides future financial event data. The PhD student will undertake the bulk of their research within the Physics and Astronomy Department at UCL, where the main project will deal with the statistical analysis and interpretation of grids of chemical and radiative transfer models covering astronomical conditions from local to high redshift galaxies. The student will also spend a significant amount of time working at Columba Systems where they will be analysing Columba’s historical corporate events database and other financial data sources. The ultimate aim is to produce a ‘back testing datapack’ including tools and statistical methodology for testing financial models against historic data. The student will be required to learn a significant amount about financial terms and data models.
*** Application ***
To apply for this studentship, please send a CV to Dr Serena Viti by e-mail (sv(at)star.ucl.ac.uk) in the first instance, explaining why you are interested in this PhD position.
*** Person Specification ***
Candidates must have obtained a Masters Degree or equivalent in Physics, Statistics, Astronomy or a related Engineering field by the 1st of October 2011 and within the past four years. The successful applicant must have completed one or more undergraduate-level courses in statistics, preferably including time series analysis. He or she must have strong computer skills and ideally be familiar with databases, SQL and XML.
*** Eligibility ***
All EU nationalities are eligible to apply.
*** Contact details ***
Dr Serena Viti
sv(at)star.ucl.ac.uk
