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 Partha Niyogi Memorial Conference Dec 4-6, 2011, University of Chicago The conference is in honor of Partha Niyogi, the Louis Block Professor in Computer Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago. Partha lost his battle with cancer in October, 2010. He was 43. Partha has made fundamental contributions to a variety of fields including language evolution, statistical inference, and speech recognition unified by the central idea of learning.
This conference will reflect Partha's interests and pay honor to his broad vision and unique insights.
Those wishing to attend should register online here. There is no charge for registration. Location: The conference will be held in the Searle Chemical Laboratory on the University of Chicago Campus, Room 240a/b. Confirmed speakers: Yali Amit, University of Chicago Peter Bickel, University of California, Berkeley Gunnar Carlsson, Stanford University Sanjoy Dasgupta, University of California, San Diego Pedro Felzenszwalb, Brown University Morgan Sonderegger, University of Chicago Alexey Koloydenko, Royal Holloway, University of London Vladimir Koltchinskii, Georgia Institute of Technology Natalia Komarova, University of California, Irvine Karen Livescu, Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago Partha Mitra, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Hariharan Narayanan, MIT Aren Jansen, John Hopkins University D. Kimbrough Oller, The University of Memphis Tomaso Poggio, MIT Robert Schapire, Princeton University Vikas Sindhwani, IBM Amit Singer, Princeton University Stephen Smale, City University of Hong Kong Shmuel Weinberger, University of Chicago Bin Yu, University of California, Berkeley Jun Zhang, Harvard University Organizers: Mikhail Belkin, Ohio State University John Goldsmith, University of Chicago Sayan Mukherjee, Duke University Funding for the conference has been provided by the University of Chicago Department of Computer Science and AFOSR. |
