Program

Workshops

• Advances in Kernel Methods (Thursday, September 6)
  
  Room: PLB-DS05, Pam Liversidge Building

Full Schedule

Day 1 September 3 (Monday)

Summer school


8:00-9:00 Arrivals

9:00-10:30 Introduction to GPsNeil Lawrence, Amazon Research Cambridge [slides]

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 A second introduction to GPsRichard Wilkinson, University of Sheffield [slides]

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:30 Lab Session 1

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:00 Kernel DesignNicolas Durrande, PROWLER.io [slides]


Day 2 September 4 (Tuesday)

Summer school


8:00-9:00 Arrivals

9:00-10:30 GPs with Non-Gaussian LikelihoodsJames Hensman, PROWLER.io [slides]

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Computationally efficient GPsZhenwen Dai, Amazon Research Cambridge [slides]

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:30 Lab Session 2

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:00 GP-based probabilistic modelling of dynamical systemsThomas Schön, Uppsala University [slides]


Day 3 September 5 (Wednesday)

Summer school


8:00-9:00 Arrivals

9:00-10:30 Unsupervised learning with GPsCarl Henrik Ek, University of Bristol [slides]

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Introduction to Bayesian OptimizationJavier Gonzalez, Amazon Research Cambridge [slides]

12:30-13:45 Lunch

13:45-15:30 Lab Session 3

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:00 Quantifying and reducing uncertainties on sets under Gaussian Process priorsDavid Ginsbourger, Idiap and University of Bern [slides]


Day 4 September 6 (Thursday)


8:00-9:00 Arrivals

9:00-17:00 Advances in Kernel Methods