Mind and Machine Research Week 2019
8-12 July 2019
Main Venue | Redacre Hall (known locally as Hillend House) | Eastnor, Herefordshire, HR8 1RF
Nearest train station | Ledbury
Monday 8 July 2019
11:30 | Leave Bristol
12:30 – 1:30 | Lunch (on the way)
1:30 – 3:30 | PhD short introductions to projects (Marin, Milton, Nick & Chris)
4:00 | Check in
5:00 | Reading group 1: Lake et al. (2017). Building machines that learn and think like people.
Tuesday 9 Jul 2019
9:30 – 10:30 | What is a symbol system and how can a neural net achieve it? (John Hummel)
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee
11:00 – 1:00 | Post-doc Projects (30 mins per project)
1:00 – 3:00 | Lunch
3:00 – 4:00 | General discussion on spiking models (Jeff B & Ben to lead)
4:00 – 4:30 | Coffee
4:30 – 6:00 | Movie Night and discussion (Jeff Clune talk)
Wednesday 10 July 2019
9:30 – 10:30 | General discussion on Generative models (Milton, Chris to lead)
10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee
11:00 – 12:00 | Rui talk (Biological constraints on deep learning models)
12:00 – 2:00 | Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 | Movie (Botvinick) and/or hike
3:00 – 3:30 | Coffee
3:30 – 5:30 | Debate
John | Fundamental limitations of deep learning systems without symbolic machinery.
Ivan |Supporting symbolic computation in conventional connectionist architectures
Thursday 11 July 2019
9:00 – 11:00 | Elevator pitches (5 + 10 mins)
11:00 – 11.30 | Coffee
11:30 – 12:30 | Discussion and collaborations?
12:30 – 2:00 | Lunch
2:00 – 3:00 | Alex Graves’ talk (new perspectives)
3:00 – 3:30 | Coffee
3:30 – 4:00 | Background readings about challenges (Jeff B and Ryan)
4:00 – 6:00 | Joint activity: List of challenges for Deep Learning models
Friday 12 July 2019
Pack and drive back