ICML 2008 CALL FOR TUTORIAL PROPOSALS
Tutorials chair:
Chris Williams
The ICML-2008
Organizing Committee invites proposals for tutorials to be held at
the 25th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-2008), on
Saturday July 5 2008 in Helsinki, Finland.
We seek tutorial proposals on core techniques and areas of knowledge
that enjoy broad interest within the machine learning community. We
are interested in tutorials on established or emerging research
topics within the field itself, but we also welcome tutorials from
related research fields or application areas provided that they are
of sufficient interest to the machine learning community. The ideal
tutorial should attract a wide audience. It should be broad enough to
provide a gentle introduction to the chosen research area, but it
should also cover the most important contributions in
depth. Proposals that exclusively focus on the presenters' own work or
commercial presentations are not eligible.
The expected duration of a tutorial is 2.5 hours, including a
10 minute comfort break.
Tutorial participants will not be given tutorial proceedings in a
hardcopy format. Instead, organizers of the tutorials will make the
proceedings available on their web site prior to the conference.
How to Propose a Tutorial
Proposals should provide
sufficient information to evaluate the quality and importance of the
topic, the likely quality of the presentation materials, and the
speakers' teaching ability. We encourage tutorials taught by
two-person teams because the added perspective of a second presenter
can provide richer, more balanced coverage of an area. When proposing
a tutorial, please use the following boldface text as the section
headings in your proposal. The proposal should be 2-3 pages long (plus
possibly extra materials).
- Topic importance: What will the tutorial be about? Why do you
believe this is an interesting and significant subject for the machine
learning community at large? From which areas do you expect potential
participants to come? What prior knowledge, if any, do you expect from
the audience? What will the participants learn? How many participants
do you expect?
- Content: Provide a detailed outline of the
topics to be presented, including estimates for the time that will be
devoted to each subject. If possible, provide samples of past tutorial
slides or teaching materials. In case of multiple presenters, specify
how you will distribute the work.
- Format: How will you present the material? Will there be
multi-media parts of the presentation? Do you plan software
demonstrations? Specify any extraordinary technical equipment that you
would need. Will the tutorial be full-day or half-day?
- Publicity: How do you intend to advertise the tutorial? How will
you reach the most interested and appropriate participants?
- Organizers & presenters' expertise: Please include the name,
e-mail address, and webpage of all presenters. In addition, indicate
the presenters' background and a list of publications in the tutorial
area.
Tutorial proposals should be submitted via email in PDF format
to ckiw (at) inf.ed.ac.uk.
Soon after submission proposers should
expect to receive a verification of receipt.
The timeline is as follows:
- Tutorial proposals due: 25 February 2008
- Acceptance notification: 10 March 2008
- Website due: 24 March 2008
- Tutorial materials due: 20 June 2008
- Tutorials date: 5 July 2008