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The meeting will be from 9am-6pm on Oct 11th, and from 9am-2pm on the 12th.

• 08:30 Breakfast
• 09:00 Paul Thomas (DSTL): MURI Interfaces with Defence Programmes
• 09:20 Rene Vidal (JHU): MURI Project Overview: Semantic Information Pursuit for Multimodal Data Analysis
• 10:05 Donald Geman (Rene Vidal) (JHU): Semantic Information Pursuit
• 10:30 Coffee Break
• 11:00 Simone Severini (UCL): Quantifying Semantic Information
• 11:45 John Shawe-Taylor (UCL): New Approaches to Training and Analysing Deep Networks
• 12:30 Poster Session and Lunch
• 01:45 Michael Jordan (Berkeley): An Optimization-Theoretic Perspective on Langevin Diffusions
• 02:30 (Arnaud Doucet) Daniel Paulin (Oxford): Hamiltonian Descent Methods
• 03:15 Guilherme Franca / Rene Vidal (JHU): A Dynamical System and Optimization Perspective on ADMM and Dropout
• 04:00 Coffee Break
• 04:30 (Jason Lee) Maziar Sanjabi (USC): Towards Understanding of Gradient-Based Optimization in Deep Learning: Neural networks and GANS
• 05:15 Stefano Soatto (UCLA): Emergence Theory of Deep Learning

• 08:30 Breakfast
• 09:00 (Emmanuel Candes) Yaniv Romano (Stanford): Deep Knockoff Machines
• 09:45 (Mark Girolami) Francois-Xavier Briol (Imperial): Applications of Stein's Method for Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification
• 10:30 Coffee Break
• 11:00 Rama Chellappa (UMD): GAN-based Domain Adaptation and Generalization and Scattering Networks
• 11:45 Josef Kittler / Miroslaw Bober (Surrey): Multimodal Analysis of of Video Content
• 12:30 Government Session and Lunch
• 01:30 Debrief
• 02:00 End