Pam Liversidge Building, PLB-E05, University of Sheffield, UK,
14 - 17 September 2015
organized by Neil Lawrence, Javier Gonzalez, Sheffield ML Group,
Monday 14 September
8:00 - 9:00 Arrivals
9:00 - 10:30 Introduction to GPs, Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:45 GPs And Latent Variable Models, Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield
11:45 - 12:30 Bayesian Latent Variable Modelling With GPs, Andreas Damianou, University of Sheffield
12:30 - 13:45 Lunch Break
13:45 - 15:30 Lab Session 1 Gaussian Process Models with GPy [jupyter notebook]
13:45 - 15:30 Lab Session 1 Gaussian Process Models with GP-LVM [jupyter notebook]
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Kernel Design, Nicolas Durrande, Ecole de Mine de St Etienne
Tuesday 15 September
8:00 - 9:00 Arrivals
9:00 - 10:30 Fitting Covariance and Multi-output Gaussian Processes, Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Sparse Gaussian Processes, James Hensman, University of Sheffield [jupyter notebook]
12:00 - 12:45 Gaussian Processes with non-Gaussian Likelihoods, Alan Saul, University of Sheffield
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Lab Session 2 Gaussian Process for Classification and Sparse Gaussian Processes [jupyter notebook]
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 Distributed Gaussian Processes, Marc Deisenroth, Imperial College
18:00 - 20:00 Social Event (Group 1)
Wednesday 16 September
8:30 - 9:00 Arrivals
9:00 - 10:30 Global Optimization with Gaussian Processes, Javier González, University of Sheffield
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:00 Bayesian Optimization, Nando de Freitas, University of Oxford and Google DeepMind
12:00 - 12:45 Incorporating structural priors in Gaussian random field models, David Ginsbourger, IDIAP and University of Bern
12:45 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 15:30 Lab Session 3 Bayesian Optimization with GPyOpt [jupyter notebook]
15:30 - 16:00 Tea Break
16:00 - 17:00 ABC and history matching with GPs, Rich Wilkinson, University of Nottingham
18:00 - 20:00 Social Event (Group 2)