The 18th Machine Learning Summer School will be held near Bordeaux, France, from September 4 to September 17 2011. This edition is co-organized by INRIA and PASCAL.

The school will provide tutorials and practical sessions on basic and advanced topics of machine learning by leading researchers in the field. The summer school is intended for students, young researchers and industry practitioners with an interest in machine learning and a strong mathematical background.

The school will address the following topics: Learning Theory, Bayesian inference, Monte Carlo Methods, Sparse Methods, Reinforcement Learning, Robot Learning, Boosting, Kernel Methods, Bayesian Nonparametrics, Convex Optimization and Graphical Models.