ICML 2011 – Call for Workshops

CALL FOR ICML 2011 WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

http://www.icml-2011.org/workshops.php

Proposals are solicited for workshops to be held in conjunction with the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2011 in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The workshops will be held on Saturday July 2, after the ICML conference sessions on June 29-July 1, 2011. These workshops present an excellent opportunity to address a specific machine learning-related topic of your choice.

Workshop day: Saturday, July 2, 2011, Bellevue, Washington, USA
Workshop proposal deadline: Friday, January 14, 2011
Acceptance notification: Monday, February 4, 2011

Workshops are a great format for active research on new topics. The ideal workshop covers a compelling subject of current or upcoming research, and includes an impressive set of speakers with diverse backgrounds to discuss the subject. Discussion via panels, identification of open problems, or a “discussant” are all great components to include.

Organization

The format, style, and content of accepted workshops is under the control of the workshop organizers and largely autonomous from the main conferences. The workshops can be up to seven hours long, split into morning and afternoon sessions. Workshop organizers are expected to manage the workshop content, specify the workshop format, be present to moderate the discussion and panels, invite experts in the domain, and maintain a website for the workshop. Workshop registration will be handled centrally by the main conference.

Submission Instructions

Proposals should clearly specify the following:

– Workshop title (what is it called?)
– Topic (what is it about?)
– Motivation (why a workshop on this topic?)
– Impact and expected outcomes (what will having the workshop do?)
– Potential list of invited speakers (who might come?)
– List of related publications (where can we learn more?)
– Main workshop organizer (who is making it happen?)
– Other organizers (who else is making it happen?)
– Bio for each organizer (who are you?)
– Workshop URL (where will interested parties get more information?)

Detailed descriptions of last year’s workshops can be found at:
http://www.icml2010.org/program.html#workshops

This information should be sent by email (in plain text or pdf format) to workshops(at)icml-2011.org by January 14, 2011.

Postdoctoral Position in Approximate Bayesian Inference / Advanced Image Processing

EPFL’s newly established Probabilistic Machine Learning Lab
(http://upseeger.epfl.ch/) has an opening for a post-doctoral fellow in the
field of Bayesian machine learning / computer vision. The initial appointment
is for 12 months, extensions up to 3 years are possible. Topics of interest
are:

– Variational approximate Bayesian inference, particularly in large scale
generalized linear model settings
– Structured image modelling. Inference over sequences (stacks) of image
frames, with particular emphasis on parallel computing (applications in
medical imaging, computer vision, and elsewhere)
– Applications to adaptive compressive sensing, medical imaging, and low-level
computer vision, among others
– Theoretical analysis of variational inference approximations and Bayesian
adaptive compressive sensing

Position:

The Probabilistic ML laboratory offers the chance for seminal work to
establish approximate Bayesian computations in domains not previously
attempted. It is set within Europe’s highest ranked computer and communication
sciences faculty at EPFL, one of the leading technical universities worldwide,
with ample opportunities for collaborations at highest international rank.

EPFL is located next to Lake Geneva in a beautiful setting 60 kilometers
away from the city of Geneva. Salaries are internationally competitive.

Education:

Applicants are expected to have finished, or be about to finish their
Ph.D. degrees. They must have an exceptional background in probabilistic
machine learning, and a firm grasp of approximate Bayesian machine learning
and/or advanced (medical) image processing. A strong track record of
publications at top ML or CV conferences (NIPS, ICML, UAI, JMLR, CVPR, ICCV,
PAMI, IJCV) and/or top-ranked (medical) image processing journals is essential.
Further pluses are strong scientific programming skills (C++, Matlab), prior
exposure to (medical) image/signal processing practice.
The working language at EPFL is English (decent skills essential), French is
not required.

Application:

Please send your applications by email to
Prof. Matthias Seeger (matthias.seeger(at)epfl.ch)
Make sure to include:
– Statement of interest
– Curriculum vitae
– List of publications (add copies of 2-3 strongest papers in the area of
interest of this call)
– Contact details for three references

The deadline for applications is

January 15, 2011

Candidates who happen to attend the forthcoming Neural Information Processing
Systems conference (Vancouver, December 2010), should make themselves known
to Matthais Seeger there.

COLT 2011 Call for Papers

The 24rd Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2011) will take
place in Budapest, Hungary, on July 9-11, 2011. It will be co-located
with the Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference (FOCM
2011, Budapest, July 4th – 14th, 2011).

http://colt2011.sztaki.hu/

We invite submissions of papers addressing theoretical aspects of
machine learning and empirical inference. We strongly support a broad
definition of learning theory, including:
* Analysis of learning algorithms and their generalization ability
* Computational complexity of learning
* Bayesian analysis
* Statistical mechanics of learning systems
* Optimization procedures for learning
* Kernel methods
* Boolean function learning
* Unsupervised and semi-supervised learning and clustering
* On-line learning and relative loss bounds
* Planning and control, including reinforcement learning
* Learning in social, economic, and game-theoretic settings
* Analysis of learning in related fields: natural language processing,
neuroscience, bioinformatics, privacy and security, machine vision,
data mining, information retrieval

We are also interested in papers that include viewpoints that are new
to the COLT community. We welcome experimental and algorithmic papers
provided they are relevant to the focus of the conference by
elucidating theoretical results. Also, while the primary focus of the
conference is theoretical, papers can be strengthened by the inclusion
of relevant experimental results.

Papers that have previously appeared in journals or at other
conferences, or that are being submitted to other conferences, are not
appropriate for COLT. Papers that include work that has already been
submitted for journal publication may be submitted to COLT, as long as
the papers have not been accepted for publication by the COLT
submission deadline (conditionally or otherwise) and that the paper is
not expected to be published before the COLT conference (June 2010).

Papers will be published electronically without printed proceedings.

Paper awards:
COLT will award both the best paper and best student paper. Best
student papers must be authored or coauthored by a student. Authors
must indicate at submission time if they wish their paper to be
eligible for a student award. This does not preclude the paper to be
eligible for the best paper award.

Open Problems Session:
We also invite submission of open problems (see separate call). These
should be constrained to two pages. There is a shorter reviewing
period for the open problems. Accepted contributions will be allocated
short presentation slots in a special open problems session and will
be allowed two pages each in the proceedings.

Submission Instructions:
Formatting and submission instructions will be available at the
conference website.

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline: February 11, 2011
Author notification: May 2, 2011
Conference: Jul 9 – 11, 2011

Program Chairs:
Sham Kakade and Ulrike von Luxburg

ESANN 2011: last CFP and special sessions

ESANN 2011

19th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence
and Machine Learning Bruges (Belgium) – April 27-28-29, 2011
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann

Last call for papers and special sessions
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Deadline for submission of papers:
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24 November 2010

Topics
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Machine learning, artificial neural networks, computational intelligence and related
topics (see below for a more detailed description of the conference topics).

Special sessions
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(see http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann for abstracts):
1) Learning of causal relations
Michael Biehl (Univ. of Groningen), Tom Heskes (Radboud Univ. Nijmegen, The
Netherlands), Joris Mooij (MPI for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany), John
Quinn (Makerere Univ., Kampala, Uganda)
2) Seeing is believing: The importance of visualization in real-world machine learning
applications Alfredo Vellido (Technical Univ. of Catalonia, Spain), José D. Martín
(Univ.
of Valencia, Spain), Paulo J. G. Lisboa (Liverpool John Moores Univ., UK), Fabrice
Rossi (Télécom ParisTech, France)
3) Deep Learning
Hélène Paugam-Moisy (Univ. de Lyon), Sébastien Rebecchi, Sylvain Chevallier (INRIA
Saclay), Ludovic Arnold (Univ. Paris-Sud 11, France)
4) Computational Intelligence in Life Sciences Frank-Michael Schleif (Univ. of
Bielefeld), Udo Seiffert (Fraunhofer IFF & Univ. of Magdeburg), Dietlind Zühlke
(Fraunhofer FIT, St. Augustin, Germany)
5) Kernel Methods for Structured Data
Giovanni Da San Martino, Alessandro Sperduti (Univ. of Padua, Italy)
6) Information theory related learning
Thomas Villmann (Univ. of Apllied Sciences Mittweida, Germany), Andrzej Cichocki
(Riken, Japan), Jose Principe (Univ. of Florida, USA)

Scope and topics
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Since its first happening in 1993, ESANN has become a reference for researchers on
fundamentals and theoretical aspects of artificial neural networks, computational
intelligence, machine learning and related topics.
Each year, around 100 specialists attend ESANN, in order to present their latest results
and comprehensive surveys, and to discuss the future developments in this field.

The ESANN’2011 conference will follow this tradition, while adapting its scope to the
new developments in the field. The ESANN conferences cover artificial neural
networks, machine learning, statistical information processing and computational
intelligence. Mathematical foundations, algorithms and tools, and applications are
covered.

The following is a non-exhaustive list of machine learning, computational intelligence
and artificial neural networks topics covered during the ESANN
conferences:

THEORY and MODELS
Statistical and mathematical aspects of learning Feedforward models Kernel machines
Graphical models, EM and Bayesian learning Vector quantization and self-organizing
maps Recurrent networks and dynamical systems Blind signal processing Ensemble
learning Nonlinear projection and data visualization Fuzzy neural networks
Evolutionary computation Bio-inspired systems

INFORMATION PROCESSING and APPLICATIONS
Data mining
Signal processing and modeling
Approximation and identification
Classification and clustering
Feature extraction and dimension reduction Time series forecasting Multimodal
interfaces and multichannel processing Adaptive control Vision and sensory systems
Biometry Bioinformatics Brain-computer interfaces Neuroinformatics

Papers will be presented orally (single track) and in poster sessions; all posters will be
complemented by a short oral presentation during a plenary session. It is important to
mention that the topics of a paper decide if it better fits into an oral or a poster session,
not its quality. The selection of posters will be identical to oral presentations, and both
will be printed in the same way in the proceedings. Nevertheless, authors must indicate
their preference for oral or poster presentation when submitting their paper.

Location
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The conference will be held in Bruges (also called “Venice of the North”), one of the
most beautiful medieval towns in Europe. Bruges can be reached by train from
Brussels in less than one hour (frequent trains). The town of Bruges is world-wide
known, and famous for its architectural style, its canals, and its pleasant atmosphere.

The conference will be organized in a hotel located near the centre (walking
distance) of the town. There is no obligation for the participants to stay in this hotel.
Hotels of all levels of comfort and price are available in Bruges; there is a possibility to
book a room in the hotel of the conference at a preferential rate through the conference
secretariat. A list of other smaller hotels is also available.

The conference will be held at the Novotel hotel, Katelijnestraat 65B, 8000 Brugge,
Belgium.

Proceedings and journal special issue
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The proceedings will include all communications presented to the conference (tutorials,
oral and posters), and will be available on-site. Extended versions of selected papers
will be published in the Neurocomputing journal (Elsevier).

Call for contributions
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Prospective authors are invited to submit their contributions before November 24, 2010.
The electronic submission procedure is described on the ESANN portal
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann/.

Authors must also commit themselves that they will register to the conference and
present the paper in case of acceptation of their submission (one paper per registrant).
Authors of accepted papers will have to register before February 28, 2011; they will
benefit from the advance registration fee. The ESANN conference applies a strict
policy about the presentation of accepted papers during the conference: authors of
accepted papers who do not show up at the conference will be blacklisted for future
ESANN conferences, and the lists will be communicated to other conference organizers.

Deadlines
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Submission of papers 24 November 2010
Notification of acceptance 18 January 2011
ESANN conference 27-29 April 2011

Conference secretariat
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ESANN’2011
d-side conference services phone: + 32 2 730 06 11
24 av. L. Mommaerts Fax: + 32 2 730 06 00
B – 1140 Evere (Belgium) E-mail: esann(at)dice.ucl.ac.be
http://www.dice.ucl.ac.be/esann

Steering and local committee (to be confirmed)
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François Blayo Ipseite (CH)
Gianluca Bontempi Univ. Libre Bruxelles (B)
Marie Cottrell Univ. Paris I (F)
Jeanny Hérault INPG Grenoble (F)
Mia Loccufier Univ. Gent (B)
Bernard Manderick Vrije Univ. Brussel (B)
Jean-Pierre Peters FUNDP Namur (B)
Joos Vandewalle KUL Leuven (B)
Michel Verleysen UCL Louvain-la-Neuve (B)
Louis Wehenkel Univ. Liège (B)

Scientific committee (to be confirmed)
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Fabio Aiolli Univ. degli Studi di Padov (I)
Cecilio Angulo Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E)
Miguel Atencia Univ. Malaga (E)
Michael Biehl University of Groningen (NL)
Martin Bogdan Univ. Tübingen (D)
Hervé Bourlard IDIAP Martigny (CH)
Antonio Braga Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Joan Cabestany Univ. Polit. de Catalunya (E)
Stéphane Canu Inst. Nat. Sciences App. (F)
Valentina Colla Scuola Sup. Sant’Anna Pisa (I)
Nigel Crook Oxford University (UK)
Holk Cruse Universität Bielefeld (D)
Tijl De Bie University of Bristol (UK)
Massimo De Gregorio Istituto di Cibernetica-CNR (I)
Dante Del Corso Politecnico di Torino (I)
Wlodek Duch Nicholas Copernicus Univ. (PL)
Marc Duranton NXP Semiconductors (USA)
Richard Duro Univ. Coruna (E)
Deniz Erdogmus Oregon Health & Science University (USA)
Anibal Figueiras-Vidal Univ. Carlos III Madrid (E)
Jean-Claude Fort Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse (F)
Felipe M. G. França Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Leonardo Franco Univ. Malaga (E)
Damien François Université catholique de Louvain (B)
Colin Fyfe Univ. Paisley (UK)
Marco Gori Univ. Siena (I)
Bernard Gosselin Fac. Polytech. Mons (B)
Manuel Grana UPV San Sebastian (E)
Anne Guérin-Dugué IMAG Grenoble (F)
Barbara Hammer Clausthal Univ. of Technology (D)
Martin Hasler EPFL Lausanne (CH)
Verena Heidrich-Meisner Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (D)
Tom Heskes Univ. Nijmegen (NL)
Katerina Hlavackova-Schindler Austrian Acad. of Sciences (A)
Christian Igel Ruhr-Univ. Bochum (D)
Jose Jerez Univ. Malaga (E)
Gonzalo Joya Univ. Malaga (E)
Christian Jutten INPG Grenoble (F)
Juha Karhunen Helsinki Univ. of Technology (FIN)
Stefanos Kollias National Tech. Univ. Athens (GR)
Jouko Lampinen Helsinki Univ. of Tech. (FIN)
Petr Lansky Acad. of Science of the Czech Rep. (CZ)
Beatrice Lazzerini Univ. Pisa (I)
Amaury Lendasse Aalto University (FIN)
John Lee Univ. Cat Louvain (B)
Priscila M. V. Lima Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Paulo Lisboa Liverpool John Moores University (UK)
Erzsebet Merenyi Rice Univ. (USA)
David Meunier University of Cambridge (UK)
Anke Meyer-Bäse Florida State university (USA)
Jean-Pierre Nadal Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris (F)
Yoan Miche Aalto University (FIN)
Erkki Oja Aalto University (FIN)
Tjeerd olde Scheper Oxford Brookes University (UK)
Georges Otte Dr. Guislain Institute (B)
Gilles Pagès Univ. Paris 6 (F)
Hélène Paugam-Moisy Université Lumière Lyon 2 (F)
Kristiaan Pelckmans K. U. Leuven (B)
Gadi Pinkas The Center for Academic Studies (Israel)
Alberto Prieto Universitad de Granada (E)
Didier Puzenat Univ. Antilles-Guyane (F)
Leonardo Reyneri Politecnico di Torino (I)
Jean-Pierre Rospars INRA Versailles (F)
Fabrice Rossi Telecom ParisTech (F)
David Saad Aston Univ. (UK)
Francisco Sandoval Univ.Malaga (E)
Jose Santos Reyes Univ. Coruna (E)
Craig Saunders Xerox Research Centre Europe (F)
Frank-Michael Schleif Univ. Leipzig (Germany)
Benjamin Schrauwen Univ. Gent (B)
Udo Seiffert Fraunhofer-Institute IFF Magdeburg (D)
Bernard Sendhoff Honda Research Institute Europe (D)
Alessandro Sperduti Università degli Studi di Padova (I)
Jochen Steil Univ. Bielefeld (D)
John Stonham Brunel University (UK)
Johan Suykens K. U. Leuven (B)
John Taylor King’s College London (UK)
Peter Tino University of Birmingham (UK)
Claude Touzet Univ. Provence (F)
Thiago Turchetti Maia Fed.Univ.Minas Gerais (Brazil)
Marc Van Hulle KUL Leuven (B)
Alfredo Vellido Polytechnic University of Catalonia (E)
Pablo Verdes Novartis Phrama (CH)
David Verstraeten Univ. Gent (B)
Thomas Villmann Univ. Apllied Sciences Mittweida (D)
Heiko Wersing Honda Research Institute Europe (D)
Axel Wismüller University of Rochester, New York (USA)
Bart Wyns Ghent University (B)

Post-doc position in Social Signal Processing at Idiap Research Institute

The Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for one
postdoctoral researcher position in Social Signal processing. The
appointment is for one year with possibility of renewal. Salaries are
competitive.

The research will be conducted in the context of the European Network of
Excellence in Social Signal Processing SSPNet (see www.sspnet.eu). The
position offers the possibility of collaborating with prominent research
teams in speech, vision, linguistic and psychology. The research aims at
automatically inferring human attitudes and behaviors from nonverbal
cues detected through sensors like microphones and cameras.

The ideal candidate holds a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering or
Computer Science in the fields of machine learning, speech processing or
signal processing. Interests in multi-modality and human behavior is a
plus.

Excellent mathematical and programming skills are expected. The
applicant should also have good communication skills and the capability
of working in a multidisciplinary team. A first postdoctoral experience
and/or previous experience in a European project is a plus.

Candidates interested in the position should include in their
application a CV, name of three academic references and one-page
statement of research purpose.

The starting date is early 2011.

For further details about the position and applications please contact:
Dr. Fabio Valente (fabio.valente(at)idiap.ch)

About Idiap
Idiap is an independent, non-profit research institute recognized and
supported by the Swiss Government, and affiliated with the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). It is located in the town of
Martigny in Valais, a scenic region in the south of Switzerland,
surrounded by the highest mountains of Europe, and offering exciting
recreational activities, including hiking, climbing and skiing, as well
as varied cultural activities. It is within close proximity to Geneva
and Lausanne. Although Idiap is located in the French part of
Switzerland, English is the working language. Free French lessons are
provided.

Idiap offers competitive salaries and conditions at all levels in a
young, dynamic, and multicultural environment. Idiap is an equal
opportunity employer and is actively involved in the “Advancement of
Women in Science” European initiative. The Institute seeks to maintain a
principle of open competition (on the basis of merit) to appoint the
best candidate, provides equal opportunity for all candidates, and
equally encourage both genders to apply.

GREAT08 Challenge mentioned in ‘Big Science for the Big Society’ RAS booklet

An article about Sarah Bridle, who led the GREAT08 team is featured on p15 of the Royal Astronomical Society booklet. The article refers to the GREAT08 challange, where a
galaxy-shape measurement problem was put to computer scientists. – this challenge was sponsored by PASCAL2.
http://www.ras.org.uk/images/stories/Publications/Big_science_for_the_big_society.pdf

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Machine Learning – University of Cambridge

UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Machine Learning

http://mlg.eng.cam.ac.uk

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 Statistical Machine Learning. The aim of this project is to develop advanced algorithms for probabilistic modelling of sparse matrix data with applications to recommender systems and market basket analysis. The project is a collaboration with Infosys. The position will be for one year, starting January 1, 2011 or soon afterwards, subject to funding, 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 statististical machine learning. Preference will be given to applicants with some experience in large-scale modelling with Bayesian methods.

Applications must be sent by email to Diane Unwin, dsu21(at)cam.ac.uk, and must include a brief research statement, 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 www.admin.cam.ac.uk/offices/personnel/forms/pd18/ .

Applications should be sent so as to reach us by ** December 1st, 2010. **
(Late applications can be submitted but might not be considered in time for shortlisting.)

The University is committed to equality of opportunity

PS. I will be attending the NIPS conference and may be able to meet candidates who have applied there.

Zoubin Ghahramani
Professor of Information Engineering
University of Cambridge
http://learning.eng.cam.ac.uk/zoubin/

Postdoctoral research position in Statistical Machine Learning & Data Mining, ULB Machine Learning Group, Brussels, Belgium

Applications are invited for a full-time postdoctoral research position starting in June 2011 at the Machine Learning Group, Computer Science Department, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

Details available in http://mlg.ulb.ac.be/files/MLG_Postdoc_nov10.pdf

IEEE SSCI 2011, Paris, extended deadline: November 16

IEEE SSCI2011 Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence

Extended deadline: November 16, 2010

Paris (France), April 11-15, 2011
http://www.ieee-ssci.org/

General Chair: Bernadette Bouchon-Meunier, LIP6, CNRS-University P. et M. Curie, Paris, France
Honorary chair: Vincenzo Piuri, University of Milan, Italy
Finance Chair: Piero Bonissone, General Electrics, USA
Local Arrangement Chair: Maria Rifqi, LIP6, Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris, France
Web Chair: Christophe Marsala, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Publication Chair: Sylvie Galichet, Université de Savoie, France
Publicity Co-chairs: Pau-Choo (Julia) Chung, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan / Martine De Cock, Ghent University, Belgium / Slawo Wesolkowski, DRDC, Canada

Tutorial, Keynote and Panel Co-chairs: Marios Polycarpou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus / Ali M.S. Zalzala, Hikma Group Limited, Dubai, UAE

Registration chair: Anne Laurent, LIRMM – Université Montpellier 2, France

Poster and local organization: Marcin Detyniecki, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France
Secretary: Adrien Revault d’Allonnes, LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France

Description:
This international event promotes all aspects of the theory and applications of Computational Intelligence. With its hosting of over thirty technical meetings in one location, it is bound to attract lead researchers, professionals and students from around the world. Sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, the 2011 edition follows in the footsteps of the SSCI 2007 meetings held in Honolulu and of the SSCI 2009 series held in Nashville. The event will take place in the magic town of Paris.

Important dates (extended deadlines):
Paper Submission Due: November 16, 2010
Notification to Authors: January 15, 2011
Camera-Ready Papers Due: February 10, 2011

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List of Symposia and Workshops

* ADPRL 2011 Symposium on Adaptive Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning
* CCMB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence, Cognitive Algorithms, Mind, and Brain.
* CIASG 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence Applications in Smart Grid
* CIBCB 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
* CIBIM 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management
* CICA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Control and Automation
* CICS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Cyber Security
* CIDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence and Data Mining
* CIDUE 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Dynamic and Uncertain Environments
* CIFEr 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering & Economics
* CII 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Industry

* CIMI 2011Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Medical Imaging

* CIMR 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Mobile Robots: Air-, Land-, and Sea-Based
* CIMSIVP 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia, Signal and Vision Processing

* CIPLS 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Production and Logistics Systems

* CISched 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Scheduling
* CISDA 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications
* CIVI 2011 Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Visual Intelligence
* CIVTS 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Vehicles and Transportation Systems
* CompSens 2011 Workshop on Merging Fields of Computational Intelligence and Sensor Technology
* EAIS 2011 Workshop on Evolving and Adaptive Intelligent Systems
* FOCI 2011 Symposium on Foundations of Computational Intelligence
* GEFS2011 International Workshop on Genetic and Evolutionary Fuzzy Systems
* HIMA 2011 Workshop on Hybrid Intelligent Models and Applications
* IA 2011 Symposium on Intelligent Agents
* IEEE ALIFE 2011 Symposium on Artificial Life

* IEEE MCDM 2011 Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Multicriteria Decision-Making
* MC 2011 Symposium on Memetic Computing
* OC 2011 Workshop on Organic Computing RiiSS 2011 Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space

* RiiSS 2011 Workshop on Robotic Intelligence in Informationally Structured Space

* SDE 2011 Symposium on Differential Evolution
* SIS 2011 Symposium on Swarm Intelligence
* T2FUZZ011 Symposium on Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Logic Systems
* WACI 2011 Workshop on Affective Computational Intelligence
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Submission information and additional details :
http://www.ieee-ssci.org/
contact: ssci2011(at)poleia.lip6.fr

Ph.D. funding in Social signal processing in mobile scenarios

The goal of the PhD project is to develop automatic approaches for assessing the quality
of rapport in mobile phone conversations. The methodology is based on detection and
analysis of “social signals”, nonverbal behavioural cues aimed at conveying relational
information during social interactions.
In particular, the project will make use of several sensing devices embedded in mobile
phones (microphones, accelerometers, capacitive sensors) to detect the physical
evidence of rapport (prosody, movement, grasp). Statistical models will then be used to
infer the quality of rapport based on the evidence at disposition.

The post is available from 1 January 2010 for three years and would suit applicants
with a good honours or Masters degree in computing science, physics, mathematics and
any other domain with deep mathematical background. Openness to disciplines like
psychology and sociology are highly appreciated. The student will be supervised by
Professor Rod Murray-Smith and Dr. Alessandro Vinciarelli in the School of Computing
Science at Glasgow, working alongside a postdoctoral researcher and having close
contact with Nokia Research Centre in Tampere and the European Network of
Excellence on Social Signal Processing (www.sspnet.eu. The studentship will fully fund
a UK or EU student, paying home fees plus the EPSRC standard living allowance
(currently £13,200/year).
The closing date for applications is 5th December, 2010.

Applications should include a CV, two academic references and a covering letter.
Applications should be sent to Alessandro Vinciarelli (vincia(at)dcs.gla.ac.uk),
Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK.

Informal enquiries to: Dr Alessandro Vinciarelli, email: vincia(at)dcs.gla.ac.uk
Web: www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~vincia