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Dear colleagues -
I would be very grateful if you could bring the new MSc programme
below, which has as its subject the application of machine learning
and other techniques to the modelling of complex systems,
to the attention of any suitable candidates.
Many thanks in advance,
Peter Sollich
Disordered Systems Group

THE SYNTHETIC VISUAL REASONING TEST CHALLENGE
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** The first dead-line has been moved to August 31, 2010.
This competition is part of the PASCAL2 challenge program
[link]
* INTRODUCTION
We are pleased to announce a new challenge for machine learning and

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Computational Natural Language Learning Conference 2010 Shared Task
"Learning to detect hedges and their scope in natural language texts"
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In Natural Language Processing (NLP) - in particular, in Information

We are pleased to announce the opening of the first set of flowCAP challenges. The goal of flowCAP is to assess computational approaches for the identification of cell populations of interest in flow cytometry data. This problem is very close to the clustering problem in machine learning.
Flow cytometry has been widely used by immunologists and cancer biologists for more than 30 years as a biomedical research tool to distinguish different cell types in mixed populations based on the expression of cellular markers. It has also become a widely used diagnostic tool for clinicians to identify abnormal cell populations associated with disease. In the last decade, advances in instrumentation and reagent technologies have enabled simultaneous single-cell measurement of tens of surface and intracellular markers, as well as tens of signaling molecules, positioning flow cytometry to play an even greater role in medicine and systems biology. However, the rapid expansion of flow cytometry applications has outpaced the functionality of traditional analysis tools used to interpret flow cytometry data such that scientists are faced with the daunting prospect of manually identifying interesting cell populations in 20 dimensional data from a collection of millions of cells. For this reason a reliable automated approach to flow cytometric analysis is desirable. While there has been a growing interest among the scientific community in developing such methods, guidance for end users about appropriate use and application of these methods is scarce.

We are extending the submission deadline for NESCAI to Friday, March
5.
The North-Eastern Student Colloquium on Artificial Intelligence is a
fun, low
pressure environment for students to build networks and talk about
research. The conference will take place at UMass, Amherst on April
16-18.
Registration, meals and two nights lodging cost only $50.

The 26th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI 2010)
July 8th - July 11th, 2010, at beautiful Catalina Island, California, U.S.A.
(near Los Angeles)
FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS (DEADLINE MARCH 12TH 11.59PM GMT, 1 WEEK FROM NOW)
Note 1: the submission site is now open - see event.cwi.nl/uai2010 .

The PyBrain Machine Learning Library [link]
just got published in the JMLR open source track. PyBrain is
written in Python, with strong emphasis on reinforcement learning
and optimization, but also supervised and unsupervised learning,
in particular, methods for recurrent networks with and without teachers.

Dear colleagues,
Two postdoctoral positions are immediately available at Imperial’s
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering , to work on machine
learning algorithms for human-robot interaction in paediatric ward settings.
You will be working within the context of a new EU FP7 integrated project,

THIRD CALL FOR PAPERS
SBIA 2010 (20th Brazilian Symposium on Artificial Intelligence)
FEI, São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil.
October 24-28, 2010.
[link]
SBIA is the leading conference in Brazil for presentation of research and
applications
in Artificial Intelligence.

Please post the following message:
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Conference Name: 2010 SIAM International Conference on Data Mining
Location: Renaissance Columbus Downtown Hotel, Columbus, Ohio
Dates: April 29 - May 1, 2010
Invited Speakers:
Phillip Gibbons, Intel Labs Pittsburgh

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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Tenth SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM2010)
April 29th - May 1st 2010
Columbus, Ohio, USA
[link]
Early registration deadline – March 30th, 2010

Postdoc Position in Machine Learning with Structured Data
Details: [link]
Contact: Christoph Lampert <c...@ist.ac.at>
A postdoc position in machine learning with structured data is
available immediately at the Institute of Science and Technology
Austria (IST Austria) in the group of Christoph Lampert.

REMINDER TO REGISTER FOR SBP10!
2010 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral Modeling, and Prediction (SBP10) Held on the main campus of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland March 29 – April 1.

Don’t forget to reserve your hotel room at the SBP10 conference rate! There are a limited number of rooms still available at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda Hotel. Please be sure to book your room at the hotel to ensure you receive the negotiated conference rate. To make a reservation, please call the hotel directly at 301-657-1234 or 888-421-1442 (specify the "Hyatt Regency Bethesda") and request the SBP 10 group rate or visit [link].

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CALL FOR PAPERS
WebCBR: 2nd Workshop on Reasoning from Experiences on the Web
[link]
Workshop at the 18th International Conference on Case Based Reasoning
19th July 2010, Alessandria, Italy

*2010 Brazilian Symposium on Neural Networks*
*October 23-28, 2010, São Bernardo do Campo - SP, BRAZIL*
Call for Papers
Website: [link]
E-mail: t...@cin.ufpe.br (Prof. Teresa Ludermir - SBRN2010 Program Chair)
SBRN is the leading conference in Brazil dedicated to Neural Networks (NNs)

TENURE-TRACK POSITION AT THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
CICESE, MÉXICO ([link])
CICESE is a premier research facility funded by the Mexican federal
government through the
National Research Council (CONACyT). It is located in the northwestern
part of Mexico, in the
Pacific Rim, some 120 kilometers south of San Diego, California.

Apologies for multiple posting. Please see below r.e. registration cost assistance for SICSA and PASCAL PhD students.
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SICSA International Summer School on

Statistical Inference in Computational Biology

National E-Science Centre, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

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Call For Papers
Social Analytics: Learning from human interactions
[link]
Workshop held at the 27th International Conference

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COLING 2010
2nd Workshop on
"The People's Web meets NLP:
Collaboratively Constructed Semantic Resources"
Beijing
August 28th, 2010
[link]
Keywords:
Wikipedia, Wiktionary, Mechanical Turk, Games with a purpose,

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