Upcoming Events
| Title | Model sparsity and brain pattern interpretation of classification models in neuroimaging
Andre Marquand |
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| Type | Reading Group |
| Date | Wednesday, 23 May 2012 |
| Time | 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Loc. | Foster Court 216 |
| Title | Optimal control and model-free Reinforcement Learning as KL minimization
Marc Toussaint |
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| Type | Seminar |
| Date | Wednesday, 23 May 2012 |
| Time | 16:00 - 17:00 |
| Loc. | B10, Alexandra House |
| Title | Efficient MCMC for Continuous Time Discrete State Systems
Vinayak Rao |
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| Type | Lunch Talk |
| Date | Friday, 25 May 2012 |
| Time | 12:30 - 14:00 |
| Loc. | Darwin B15 Biochemistry LT |
The Centre for Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML) spans three departments at University College London, Computer Science, Statistical Science, and the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit.
The Centre will pioneer an emerging field that brings together statistics, the recent extensive advances in theoretically well-founded machine learning, and links with a broad range of application areas drawn from across the college, including neuroscience, astrophysics, biological sciences, complexity science, etc. There is a deliberate intention to maintain and cultivate a plurality of approaches within the centre including Bayesian, frequentist, on-line, statistical, etc.
News
Two New Papers by CSML Members
Two papers of CSML members Prof. Mark Girolami and Dr. Arthur Gretton have recently been published. These two are the first papers to carry the official CSML affiliation.
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Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for State-Space Models with Point Process Observations
Ke Yuan, Mark Girolami, Mahesan Niranjan
Neural Computation, June 2012, Vol. 24, No. 6, Pages 1462-1486, Link
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A Kernel Two-Sample Test
Arthur Gretton, Karsten M. Borgwardt, Malte J. Rasch, Bernhard Schölkopf, Alexander Smola
JMLR, March 2012, Vol. 13, Pages 723−773, Link
EPSRC Grants and Fellowships Awarded to CSML Members
Professor Mark Girolami, Director of CSML, has been awarded an EPSRC Established Career Research Fellowship: "Advancing the Geometric Framework for Computational Statistics: Theory, Methodology and Modern Day Applications". Furthermore, three members of CSML have been awarded EPSRC grants supporting their research projects:
CSML on Facebook and Twitter
CSML now has a Facebook page and a Twitter account where news and events are announced. So like CSML on Facebook, follow @uclcsml and spread the word!
Collaboration between ISM and CSML
The Institute of Statistical Mathematics (ISM) in Tokyo and CSML have signed an agreement to undertake academic and collaboration to develop mutually beneficial, creative and productive scholarly activities in the field of statistical machine learning. Professor Shiro Ikeda from ISM visited UCL this week to officially sign the agreement, here seen with the Dean of MAPS Richard Catlow, Ricardo Silva and Mark Girolami both from CSML. This is an important agreement and opens a number of new developing collaborations between UCL and ISM.
One collaboration currently underway is on the application of kernel methods from machine learning to problems in statistics (hypothesis testing and Bayesian inference), undertaken by Professor Fukumizu at the department of statistical modelling at ISM, and Arthur Gretton at the Gatsby Unit.