*** Please register and make your travel arrangements soon! ***
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THE TWENTIETH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
UNCERTAINTY IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (UAI-04)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
July 7-11, 2004
Banff, Canada
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The Twentieth International Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
(UAI-04) will be held in Banff, Alberta, Canada on July 7-11, 2004 at the Banff Park
Lodge. UAI will be collocated with ICML and COLT.
The details of the invited talks and tutorials are now available on the conference web
site http://www.research.microsoft.com/uai2004/ under "Schedule". In summary:
Tutorials (held July 8th):
- Ronen Brafman, "Eliciting, Modeling, and Reasoning about Preference using CP-nets"
- Rina Dechter, "Constraint processing: a graphical models perspective"
- Nir Friedman, "Graphical Models in Computational Molecular Biology"
- Martin Wainwright, "Graphical models, exponential families, and variational
inference"
Banquet Talk (held July 10th):
- Ed George, "Bayesian or Frequentist? How to Double Your Chances for a Date"
Invited Talks (held July 9th-July 11th):
- Jon Kleinberg, "Cascading Behavior and Bursty Dynamics in Computational Models of
Social Networks"
- Lillian Lee, "What is the matter? Explorations in text categorization"
- Alon Orlitsky, "Good-Turing estimation and its applications"
- Moshe Vardi, "Markov Processes and Markov Decision Processes: The Verification
Perspective"
The UAI-04 conference registration site is also available. The discounted early
registration deadline for UAI is May 7, 2004. Options for registration are described at
the conference web site http://www.research.microsoft.com/uai2004/.
Financial support will be available to student volunteers and student authors attending
the conference. To receive financial support students must apply by June 14, 2004. For
more information please visit the UAI conference web site.
Banff is located in Banff National Park, which is one of four adjoining mountain parks
comprising more than 7,813 square miles of spectacular Canadian Rocky Mountain
landscape.
The closest international airport is in Calgary, which is 80 miles from Banff.
Delegates
are responsible for managing their own travel to and from Banff, but as a convenience
we have arranged a 20% discount on a shuttle service from the Calgary International
Airport to Banff.
Please note that these conferences take place during peak tourist season. We *STRONGLY*
advise attendees to book flights, hotels and transportation as soon as possible! Note:
the release dates for many of the accommodations are *EARLIER* than the early
registration deadline for the conference.
For details on UAI-04 including information on conference registration, accommodation,
transportation, and collocated conferences please go to
http://www.research.microsoft.com/uai2004/ and http://www.banff04.org.
Regards,
Max Chickering and Joe Halpern
Conference Program Chairs
UAI 2004
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