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SUMMARY:Advanced Monte Carlo Methods and Variational Inference - David Mac
 Kay (Cavendish Laboratory)
DTSTART:20120625T133000Z
DTEND:20120625T160000Z
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CONTACT:Emli-Mari Nel
DESCRIPTION:Lecture 13 & 14 of a lecture series on Information Theory\, Pa
 ttern Recognition and Neural Networks: http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/
 itprnn_lectures/\n\nTopics include:\n* Slice sampling\, \n* Hybrid Monte C
 arlo\, \n* Over-relaxation\, \n* Exact Sampling\, \n* Variational methods.
   \n\nSchedule: \n* Two 40-60 minute lectures\, with a 15 minute break in 
 between.\n\nAll are welcome\, and encouraged to ask many questions.
LOCATION:Pippard Lecture Theatre\, Cavendish Laboratory
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