Carnegie Mellon University

Machine Learning Open House for accepted PhD Students Schedule


Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Admitted ML PhD students arrive
Shadyside Inn
5405 Fifth Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15232

7:00-9:00 PM – Welcome Reception
Shadyside Inn
5426 Fifth Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15232

 

Wednesday, March 1, 2017

9:00 a.m.

Shadyside Inn

Shuttle Service from Shadyside Inn to Gates Hillman Center (GHC)

9:30-10:00 a.m.

GHC 6115

Breakfast & Welcome to Machine Learning – Manuela Veloso, Department Head

10:00-10:20 a.m.

GHC 6115

PhD Program Introduction – Geoff Gordon & Cosma Shalizi

 

10:30-10:40 a.m.
10:45-10:55 a.m.

11:00-11:10 a.m.
11:15-11:25 a.m.

 

GHC 6115

ML Research Showcase
Deep Learning – Ruslan Salakhutdinov
Forecasting Epidemics, and ML for Social Good–
    Roni Rosenfeld
AI & ML – Manuela Veloso
Stats Theory/Neuroscience –Barnabas Poczos

11:30 a.m.

GHC 6115

Tour of Gates Hillman Center - Manuela Veloso

12:00-1:15 p.m.

GHC 4005

Lunch & Living in Pittsburgh presentation from current ML PhD students

 

1:30-1:40 p.m.
1:45-1:55 p.m.
2:00-2:10 p.m.

 

GHC 6115

ML Research Showcase
Statistical ML – Pradeep Ravikumar
Feedback-driven Learning – Aarti Singh
Computer Vision – Katerina Fragkiadaki

2:30-5:00 p.m.

 

Faculty/Student Meetings

5:15 & 5:30 p.m.

 

Shuttle back to Shadyside Inn

6:15 & 6:30 p.m.

 

Shuttle from Shadyside Inn to Google

6:30 p.m.

 

CMU Shuttle to Google Party

Bus stop on Forbes Ave. in front of Hamburg Hall

7:00-9:00 p.m.

 

ML Department Party at Google

9:00 – 9:15 p.m.

 

Shuttles back to Shadyside Inn & Campus

 

 

Thursday, March 2, 2017

9:30 & 9:45 a.m.

 

Shuttles from Shadyside Inn to Gates Hillman Center (GHC)

 

10:00-12:30 p.m.

 

GHC 6115

Breakfast

Life as a ML Graduate Student
Lunch and Graduate Student Panel

12:40-3:30 p.m.

 

Faculty/Student meetings

3:30-4:30 p.m.

GHC 6115

ML Tea

4:30-5:15 p.m.

GHC 6115

Campus Tour, Apartment Tour, Neighborhood Tour

5:15 & 5:30 p.m.

 

Shuttle back to Shadyside Inn

7:00 p.m.

 

Transportation with current students to restaurants

7:30 p.m.

 

Dinner at restaurants with current students