date	topic	paper number	paper name	student
23-Oct-09	Introduction (Gideon) administrative + prml chapter 1: pages 1-4 (20-23 of PDF)
30-Oct-09	polynomial curve fitting: PRML pages  23 – 31	1	PRML1	irit
06-Nov-09	Curve fitting re-visited, Bayesian curve fitting, curse of dimensionality  47-57	2	PRML2	gregory
13-Nov-09	no seminar
20-Nov-09	decision theory, 57-67 (up to information theory – not inclusive);	3	PRML3	guy
27-Nov-09	naïve bayes & logistic regression	4	NBayesLogReg.pdf	306483371
04-Dec-09	Knn + LSH	5	lsh_tutorial.pdf	025568080
11-Dec-09	no seminar
18-Dec-09	SVM	6	support-vector-machines4.pdf	sami
25-Dec-09	random forests	7		036164978
01-Jan-10	Boosting	8	intro_boosting.pdf	033756487
08-Jan-10	EM	9	em_tutorial.pdf	021347570
15-Jan-10	Feature selection	10	introduction_feature_selection.pdf	031700792
22-Jan-10	Kernel PCA	12	kernel_pca.pdf	032437030
29-Jan-10	Indepndent Componenr Analysis	13	ica.pdf	nadav