Workshop on Machine Learning 2012

Co-organized by ACM Student Chapter, ISI Kolkata and Indian Statistical Institute

Date: October 17 to 19, 2012 (Dates have been changed)

Venue: Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata

Lecture Hall & R Lab: Refer to workshop schedule

The workshop covers various topics related to Machine Learning starting from basic subjects like probability, statistics and optimization techniques. It also includes LAB sessions based on R packages. So, it provides a chance to play with the theoritical tools which a participant has learned on theory lectures.

The following topics will be covered in workshop.

Basics of mathematics, probability and statistics By Prof. C. A. Murthy
Optimization (specially: convex optimization) By Prof. Probal Chaudhuri
Introduction to pattern recognition By Prof. C. A. Murthy
Neural network and its applications By Prof. Pabitra Mitra
Support vector machine and its applications By Dr. Ravi Kothari
"Kernel Methods and its applications By Prof. Chiranjib Bhattacharyya
R Lab By Prof. Deepayan Sarkar and Subhajit Dutta
Data set
R Lab Day 1 Link Presentation Programming code
R Lab Day 2 Link1 Link2 Programming code
R Lab Day 3 Link1 Link2 Programming code

The details workshop Schedule is available here.

We have limited seats. So, pre-registration is needed to participate in this workshop. Please send the filled-in pre-registration form to the email id of this chapter mentioned below.

email: acmsc@isical.ac.in

Pre-registration was closed on 18/09/2012.

For updates participants please visit this web page regularly.

Registration Fee:

For ISI-ians: NIL
For Non-ISI-ians: Rs. 500/-
(Payment either to one of the contact persons after confirmation of availability of seats. The confirmation will be sent to a participant through email at appropriate time.)

Contact persons: K. Ramachandra Murthy (M: (+91) 9883967177 ) / Swarup Chattopadhyay (M: (+91) 9830546459 )