2017-2018 Machine Learning Advances and Applications Seminar
Description
This seminar series brings together academic and industrial data scientists to discuss advanced topics in machine learning.
Presented by the Vector Institute, the goal of the seminar series is to strengthen the machine learning community in Ontario.
Held from from noon to 2:00 pm every other Thursday (unless stated otherwise below), talks will be evenly divided between international invited speakers, academic faculty and industry, and days focused on applications in fintech, medtech, and robotics.
The seminar series is intended for university faculty and graduate students in machine learning across computer science, ECE, statistics, mathematics, linguistics, and medicine, as well as PhD-level data scientists doing interesting applied research in the GTA.
A large emphasis will be placed on the social aspects of the gathering. The Toronto machine learning community will be stronger when we know each other and know what problems people are working on.
Vector Institute
The Vector Institute is an independent, non-profit research institution dedicated to the transformative field of artificial intelligence, excelling in deep learning and machine learning – an area of scientific, academic, and commercial endeavour that will shape our world over the next generation. For more information, visit www.vectorinstitute.ai. 
Schedule
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Barak Pearlmutter, Hamilton Institute, Maynooth Location:Bahen Building, Room 1180 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Suchi Saria, Johns Hopkins University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 14:00 to 15:00 |
Peter Grünwald, Leiden University Location:Fields Institute, Room 210 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Emma Brunskill, Stanford University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Josh Tenenbaum, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Chris Maddison, University of Oxford Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Yair Weiss, Hebrew University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Christopher Manning, Stanford University Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Vlad Mnih, DeepMind Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Stephen Friend, Sage Bionetworks Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Ilya Sutskever, OpenAI Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Yee Whye Teh, University of Oxford Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Guang Wei Yu, Layer 6, Mohammad Islam, Wattpad, Putra Manggala, Shopify, Javier Moreno, Rubikloud Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:30 to 13:30 |
Jennifer Listgarten, Microsoft Research Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Chris Williams, Univeristy of Edinburgh Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 11:00 to 12:00 |
Jon Shlens, Google Brain Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
| 12:00 to 13:00 |
Geoffrey Hinton, University of Toronto Location:Fields Institute, Room 230 |
