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FoCM '02 Conference

Period 1: Workshop 4: Learning Theory

University of Minnesota

August 5-7, 2002

Organizers: Tomaso Poggio (MIT) and Steve Smale (University of California-Berkeley)

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Monday, August 5:

1:50-2:40 pm	Tomaso Poggio	Statistical Learning Theory: Overview and Applications
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2:40-3:30 pm	Johan Suykens	Least Squares Support Vector Machines: An Overview
	Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
4:00–4:50 pm	Ding-Xuan Zhou*	Analysis of Reproducing Kernel Spaces in Learning Theory
	City University of Hong Kong
4:50-5:40 pm	Vladimir Temlyakov	Greedy Approximation
	University of South Carolina
5:40-6:30 pm	Felipe Cucker	Best Choices for Regularization Parameters in Learning Theory: On the Bias-Variance Problem
	City University of Hong Kong

Tuesday, August 6:

1:50-2:40 pm	Nicolo Cesa-Bianchi	The On-line Learning Protocol: Theory and Applications
	Universita degli Studi di Milano
2:40-3:30 pm	Robert Schapire	Advances in Boosting
	AT&T
4:00–4:50 pm	Gabor Lugosi	Bayes-risk Consistency of Boosting
	Pompeu Fabra University
4:50-5:40 pm	Partha Niyogi*	Algorithmic Stability and Learning on Manifolds
	University of Chicago
5:40-6:30 pm	Sayan Mukherjee & Ryan Rifkin	Applications of Regularization
	Massachusetts Institue of Technology

Wednesday, August 7:

1:50-2:40 pm	Peter Bartlett	Error Estimates from Local Rademacher Averages
	Australian National University
2:40-3:30 pm	Shahar Mendelson	Entropy and the Shattering Dimension
	Australian National University
4:00–4:50 pm	Steve Smale	On the Evolution of Language
	University of California-Berkeley
4:50–5:40 pm	Santosh Vempala	A Spectral Algorithm for Learning Mixture Models
	Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5:40-6:30 pm	Morris W. Hirsch*	Learning in Games
	University of California-Berkeley

*Semi-plenary Speaker

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Please send us an e-mail if you have comments, questions, or suggestions:
Mary Pat Fitzgerald: marypat@ai.mit.edu
Tomaso Poggio: tp@ai.mit.edu