====== Max Planck Intelligent Systems Colloquium (IS Colloquium) ======

The Max-Planck IS Colloquium is a series of talks about a topic that is of broad appeal to the intelligent system’s community and is given by a world-renowned researcher. Invited participants include graduate students, faculty and other interested members of the Max-Planck community. The goal is to foster discussion and dialogue on larger themes that encourage sophisticated and interdisciplinary perspectives.


===== Speakers =====

^ Date ^ Speaker ^ Title ^ 
^ Speakers ^^^
| 16-Oct-2012 | René Vidal | Sparse Subspace Classification and Clustering |
| 29-Oct-2012 | Francis Bach | Large-Scale Convex Optimization for Machine Learning |
| 14-Nov-2012 | Ingo Steinwart | Adaptive Density Level Set Clustering |
| 26-Nov-2012 | Pavel Laskov | Security Analysis of Learning Algorithms |
| 7-Jan-2012 | Philip Dawid | Proper Local Scoring Rules |
| 21-Jan-2012 | Peter Grünwald | Safe Learning: learning the learning rate in Bayesian, MDL and PAC-Bayesian inference |
| 28-Jan-2012 | Jörg Lücke | TBA |
| 4-Feb-2012 | Andreas Krause | TBA |
| 18-Feb-2012 | Daniel Keim | TBA |
^ Past Speakers ^^^
| 16-Apr-2012 | Cordelia Schmid | Actions recognition from videos: some recent results |
| 23-Apr-2012 | Tonio Ball | Brain-machine interfacing based on the electrocorticogram (ECoG) |
| 14-May-2012 | Zoubin Ghahramani | Nonparametric Bayesian Machine Learning |
| 21-May-2012 | Hendrik Lensch | Measuring Multispectral Reflectance |
| 17-Jun-2012 | Harald Baayen | Modeling aspects of the language system with naive discrimination learning |
| 2-Jul-2012 | Bert Kappen | Path Integral Control Theory |
| 30-Jul-2012 | Felix Darvas | Novel control signals for non-invasive brain computer interfaces |
| 24-Sep-2012 | Stephan Roth | How well do filter-based MRFs model natural images? |