We would like to draw your attention to the PASCAL2 Thematic Programme
(TP) on "Cognitive Inference and Neuroimaging". The TP provides the
opportunity to apply for funding of workshops and educational events
that foster collaborations between the domains of neuroimaging and
machine learning. Furthermore, the TP can provide travel stipends for
visits by scientists working in cognitive inference and neuroimaging to
members of PASCAL2.

More information on the TP and how to apply for funding is available at
http://mlin.kyb.tuebingen.mpg.de.

24th Annual Conference on Learning Theory
Budapest, Hungary, July 9-11, 2011
http://colt2011.sztaki.hu

COLT 2011 - Call for Open Problems

Submission deadline is extended to May 11, 2011

The 24th Annual Conference on Learning Theory (COLT 2011) will take place in Budapest, Hungary, on July 9-11, 2011. It will be co-located with the Foundations of Computational Mathematics conference (FOCM 2011, Budapest, July 4th - 14th, 2011).

Do you have a good idea for some really cool software, useful and/or
fun for people out there, but you are missing the team, the money, or
the place?

This announcement is for you: read it carefully!

PASCAL2 invites submissions of proposals for Harvest Projects

Important dates

- Expression of intention to submit: May 15, 2011
- Deadline proposal submissions: May 29, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: June 24, 2011

Inquiries: anytime.

There are many innovative things we would be able to do, but we never
find the time, we don't have the money, students/programmers are

DEADLINE EXTENSION for the AMAI Special Issue on
Local Pattern Mining in Graph-Structured Data

New Submission Deadline: JUNE 15, 2011

Special Issue Guest Editors:
Tanya Y. Berger-Wolf (University of Illinois at Chicago, USA) Tamas Horvath
(University of Bonn; Fraunhofer IAIS, Sankt Augustin, Germany)

Mining graph-structured data has developed, over the last decade, into a separate
research field of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Examples of real-world
graph-structured data include the Web graph, social, biological, telecommunication,

The Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance (http://www.sicsa.ac.uk) invites applications for up to 20 international prize studentships from outstanding PhD candidates to Scottish universities. The studentships are open to citizens and residents of any country.

SICSA studentships cover living costs and fees at the UK/EU level and successful candidates may apply for further fee support. We will consider applicants in any area of computer science and informatics but may give preference to students who are working in SICSA theme areas:

* Next-generation Internet

Call For Papers: International Workshop on Social Web Mining, co-located with IJCAI, Barcelona, Spain, 18 July 2011

WWW: http://users.cecs.anu.edu.au/~sguo/swm.html

Introduction:

First International Workshop on
Machine Listening in Multisource Environments (CHiME 2011)
In conjunction with Interspeech 2011, September 1st, 2011, Florence, Italy
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/spandh/chime/workshop
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Important Dates:
* Deadline for submission of papers: April 21st, 2011 (was April 14th)
* Notification of acceptance: June 2nd, 2011
* Final version of submission: June 14th, 2011
* Workshop: September 1st, 2011

Overview:
CHiME 2011 is an ISCA-approved satellite workshop of Interspeech 2011

This is an advance notice that the ISBA 2012 World Meeting -- the
premier conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
(ISBA) -- will be held in beautiful Kyoto, Japan, from June 25 to June
29, 2012. Preliminary program and announcements can be found at

http://www2.e.u-tokyo.ac.jp/~isba2012/

The call for abstracts, including the call for special topic
contributed sessions, will be coming out in June 2011. An email
containing the call for participation will be sent out then.

This announcement was sent on behalf of Igor Pruenster (igor(at)econ.unito.it).

Request for participation from Yee Whye Teh, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL

Machine learning is an emerging and fast changing scientific area that
is crossing many disciplinary boundaries. What I often find amazing
about the community is how diverse it is, drawing inspiration from so
many sources, and getting applied in, and transforming so many
different fields.

To help me understand the machine learning community better, and to
solicit opinions of members of the community with regards the role and

Registration and abstract submission for a small number of contributed
talks is now open for two overlapping workshops in London 3-6 May 2011.

Tue 3 - Wed 4 May: Cosmology Meets Machine Learning Workshop

Wed 4 pm - Fri 6 May: GREAT10 PASCAL Challenge Workshop

Please see the meeting webpage http://cmml2011.wikispaces.com for more
information.

Description:
The workshops aim to bring together computer scientists and cosmologists
to explore the application of computational statistics and machine
learning techniques to data analysis problems in cosmology. They are held