Welcome

Dear colleagues,

This year, Vladimir Vapnik will turn 75 years old, and we will celebrate this event with him. We are planning a symposium 'empirical inference' in his honour in Tübingen. The symposium will run from Dec 8 through Dec 10. The first two days will consist of talks given by scientists from statistical learning theory and kernel methods; the third day will feature talks of alumni from the empirical inference department.

Note that on Monday Dec 12, the NIPS conference will take place in Granada (www.nips.cc).

Please feel free to mention this event to people who you feel should know about it - people who have worked with Vladimir, who have been his friends, or whose work has been influential to him and his field of research.

If you'd like to participate, please register before Nov 1, 2011.

Please direct all email correspondence to empirical.inference@tuebingen.mpg.de.

Best regards

Bernhard Schölkopf

• Krikamol Muandet - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Yevgeny Seldin - Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems