Gaussian Process Winter School, 2014

The Gaussian Process Summer School was held in Sheffield, UK from Monday, 13 January 2014 to Thursday, 16 January 2014 at the The University of Sheffield.

This webpage acts as a record of the program and talks given.

Link to GPSS 2013

Monday 13th January

8:00-9:00 Arrivals

9:00-10:30 Introduction to GPs [Lecture Slides] Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Introduction to GPs II [Lecture Slides] Philipp Hennig, MPI Tuebingen

12:30-13:15 Lunch Break

13:15-15:30 Lab Session 1 Gaussian Process Models with GPy [Lab instructions]

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:00 Kernel Design [Lecture Slides] Nicolas Durrande, Ecole de Mine de St Etienne

Tuesday 14th January

8:00-9:00 Arrivals

9:00-10:30 Fitting Covariance and Multi-output Gaussian Processes [Lecture Slides] Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:00 Sparse Gaussian Processes [Lecture Slides][ipython notebook] James Hensman, University of Sheffield

12:00-12:45 Expectation Propagation [Lecture Slides] Ricardo Andrade, University of Sheffield

12:45-13:30 Lunch Break

13:30-15:30 Lab Session 2 Gaussian Process for Classification and Sparse Gaussian Processes [Lab instructions]

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:30 Gaussian Processes for Computer Experiments [Lecture Slides] Jeremy Oakley, University of Sheffield

Wednesday 15th January

8:00-9:00 Arrivals

9:00-10:30 Gaussian Processes for Probabilistic Numerics [Lecture Slides] Philipp Hennig, MPI Tuebingen

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:30 Latent Variable Models with Gaussian Processes [Lecture Slides] Neil Lawrence, University of Sheffield

12:30-13:15 Lunch Break

13:15-15:30 Lab Session 3 Latent Variable Models [Lab instructions]

15:30-16:00 Tea Break

16:00-17:00 GPs huh? What are they good for? [Lecture Slides] Richard Wilkinson, University of Nottingham

Thursday 16th January

Spatiotemporal Modelling with Gaussian Processes Workshop

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