The school takes place from 29 August - 10 September 2009 and will comprise ten days of both tutorial lectures and practicals. Courses will be held at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences (CMS) of the University of Cambridge, and at Microsoft Research Cambridge (MSRC).

Speaker	Talk Title
Christopher Bishop	Introduction to Bayesian Inference
Zoubin Ghahramani	Graphical Models
David MacKay	Information Theory
Iain Murray	Markov Chain Monte Carlo
Bernhard Schölkopf	Kernel Methods
Michael Littman	Reinforcement Learning
Carl Edward Rasmussen	Gaussian Processes
John Shawe-Taylor	Learning Theory
Lieven Vandenberghe	Convex Optimization
Andrew Blake	Computer Vision
David Blei	Topic Models
Tom Minka	Approximate Inference
Yee Whye Teh	Nonparametric Bayesian Models
Josh Tenenbaum	Machine Learning and Cognitive Science
Geoffrey Hinton	Deep Belief Networks
Simon Godsill	Particle Filters
Phil Dawid	Causality
Thomas Hofmann	Information Retrieval
Peter Orbanz	Foundations of Nonparametric Bayesian Methods
Michael Jordan	Bayesian or Frequentist, Which Are You?

Speaker	Course Title
Joaquin Quiñonero Candela and Ed Snelson	Gaussian Processes
John Winn & Tom Minka	Probabilistic Programming
Iain Murray	Markov Chain Monte Carlo

We will hold two poster sessions during which participants will present their own research.
Please prepare your poster in A0 landscape format (841 x 1189 mm or 33.1 x 46.8 in).

Date	Venue	09:00-10:30	11:00-12:30	Lunch 12:30-14:00	14:00-15:30	16:00-17:30	Evening
Sun 30 Aug	CMS	Bishop [1]	Ghahramani [1] [2]		Murray [1]	MacKay [1]	Reception at Churchill 18:00-19:30
Mon 31 Aug	CMS	Schölkopf [1]	Bishop [2]		Murray [1]	Minka [1] [Ink]
Tues 1 Sept	CMS	Blei [1]	MacKay [2]		Ghahramani [3] [4]	Minka [2]
Wed 2 Sept	CMS	Schölkopf [2]	Rasmussen [1]		Practicals	FREE
Thurs 3 Sept	CMS	Vandenberghe [1]	Shawe-Taylor [1]		Blei [1]	Blake [1]	Posters 20:00 - 22:00
Fri 4 Sept	MSRC	Vandenberghe [1]	Littman [1]		Blake [1]	Shawe-Taylor
Sat 5 Sept	CMS	Teh [1]	Tenenbaum [1]		Rasmussen [1]	Littman [1]
Sun 6 Sept		FREE	FREE		FREE	FREE
Mon 7 Sept	CMS	Hinton [1]	Orbanz [1]	BBQ	Godsill [1]	Tenenbaum [2]	Posters 20:00 - 22:00
Tues 8 Sept	CMS	Dawid [1]	Hofmann [1]		Godsill [1]	Hofmann [1]
Wed 9 Sept	CMS	Jordan [1]	Orbanz [2]	Packed Lunch	Dawid [2]	Hinton [1]
Thurs 10 Sept	CMS	Teh [1]	Jordan [2] [3]

There are two coffee breaks each day between 10:30-11am and 3:30-4:00pm.