Invited Conference/Research Workshop Activities

Workshops Organized

• IPAM Workshop on Fast Algorithms for Massive Data Mining (October 2007) which I helped co-organize with Yann LeCun, Andrew Zisserman and others.
• Yoshua Bengio and I organized a CIAR workshop on manifold learning and nonlinear latent variable models held on April25-26, 2005 in Montreal.
• Yoshua Bengio and I organized the IRIS Machine Learning Workshop held on June 9, 2004 in Ottawa.
• Josh Tenenbaum and I organized a NIPS workshop on spectral methods in machine learning, held in December 2002 at Whistler.

  Invited Tutorials/Short Courses

• In Jan 2005, I gave a week long short course on Probabilistic Graphical Models as part of the Machine Learning Summer School (2005, Canberra).
• In May 2004 I gave an invited tutorial on Manifold Learning and Nonlinear Dimensionality Reduction as part of the UW-MSR Course on Vision Algorithms.
• Invited tutorial on Hidden Markov Models at the 2003 Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis in Gotenburg, Sweden.
• Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (December 1999)
  Tutorial on Probabilistic Models for Unsupervised Learning with Zoubin Ghahramani.
  

  (Tutorial slides are available on my tutorials page.)
  

  Invited Research Workshops

• Snowbird Learning Workshops (2000/01/02/03/04/05)
  Snowbird, Utah.
• MSRI High Dimensional Data Workshop (December 2004)
  Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Berkeley
• MITACS Workshop on Data Mining (November 2003)
  Montreal
• McMaster-Gennum Workshop on Intelligent Hearing Aids (September 2001)
  Niagara on the Lake
• Banbury Center Meeting on Neural Networks and Cognition (September 2000)
  Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
• Rank Prize Mini-Symposium on Model Selection and Learning in Computer Vision (April 2000)
  Grasmere, UK. (at which I won an award for best contributed talk)
• Neural Information and Coding Workshop (March 1997)
  Snowbird Utah.
• Speech Recognition Workshop (Summer 1996)
  Center for Language and Speech Processing, Johns Hopkins University.

Sam Roweis, Vision, Learning and Graphics Group, NYU, www.cs.nyu.edu/~roweis