NASSMA Machine Learning Summer School
The first edition of North African Machine Learning Summer School (NASSMA) will take place in Mohammed VI university (UM6P), Ben Guerir, Morocco from the 24th to the 29th of June 2019. The focus of the first edition is on the foundations of Deep Neural Networks.
NASSMA will provide a unique opportunity to learn from experts in the field, engage with other researchers, and understand the major challenges in this hot area of research. Through a combination of lectures and practical labs, the summer school will deliver contents to get started and apply machine learning to your research problems.
Program
The summer school will include lectures on the following topics:
- Introduction to Machine Learning
- Mathematics of Machine Learning
- Optimisation methods
- Computer Vision (with emphasis on Convolutional Neural Networks)
- Recurrent neural networks
- Generative models
- Recommender systems
- Applications of machine learning to healthcare
Practical sessions (in Python and TensorFlow) will cover the following topics:
- Basics of neural networks
- Convolutional neural networks
- Recurrent neural networks
- Recommender systems
Application
The deadline for applications is March 15th, 23:59 GMT.
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Please note that you will need to create a gmail account in order to submit an application.
After submitting the form you will have the option to edit your responses (if needed) until the deadline.
Please make sure that the answers to the questions as well as the attachments are in English.