Date	Topics	Readings
Jan 25: Lecture 1	[Class canceled due to the weather] Overview of Pattern Recognition, Model selection, Over-fitting, Classification and Regression examples. Review of Probability Theory. Assignment 1	Chapter 1: Sections 1.1, 1.2 (up to 1.2.5)
Feb 1: Lecture 2	Quiz 1 Review of Probability Theory Slides
Feb 8: Lecture 3	Bayesian probabilities, ML estimation, MAP, Curse of dimensionality, Decision theory	Sections 1.3, 1.4, 1.5. Project guidelines
Feb 15: Lecture 4	[Class canceled due to the weather] Linear models for classification, discriminant functions, Fisher's linear discriminant, Perceptron. Probabilistic generative models; Probabilistic discriminative models Slides Assignment 1 due	Sections 4.1
Feb 22: Lecture 5	Quiz 2 Slides Assignment 2 Download the data
Feb 29: Lecture 6	Probabilistic generative models; Probabilistic discriminative models Slides on Backpropagation	Sections 4.2, 4.3 Backpropagation: Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3
March 7: No Class	Spring Break!
March 14: Lecture 7	Kernel methods Discussion of assignment 2 Assignment 3
March 21: Lecture 8	Midterm Project Proposal Due Support Vector Machines
March 28: Lecture 9	Assignment 3 due Support Vector Machines	Handout
Apr 4: Lecture 10	Principal Component Analysis
Apr 11: Lecture 11	Quiz 3 Clustering Assignment 4
Apr 18: Lecture 12	Kernel K-means One-class SVMs Ensemble methods	Paper on One-class SVMs Paper on Ensemble Methods
Apr 25: Lecture 13	Boosting; Clustering Ensembles; Discussion of Assignment 4; Requirements for Project Presentation and Paper Assignment 4 due
May 2: Lecture 14	Students' presentations (23): Cris Flagg Suraj Kulkarni Hui Zheng Xiaosheng Li Artem Klintsevich Michael Bowen Saif Ahmed Stephen Arnold Won Cho David Freelan Ben Gelman Sam Gelman Qian Hu Nathan Lapierre Phi Hung Le Brian Notarianni Anna Papadogiannakis Bahman Pedrood Zhiyun Ren Monjura Afrin Rumi Hamed Sarvari Mack Sweeney Yongxin Wang
May 4: Make-up class	Final (non-cumulative)
May 9: 4:30-6:30PM	Students' presentations (16): Gary Friedman and Derek Cox Zahra Rajabi and Georgios Georgakis Lubaba Nuzhat Tasneem JingJing Gu Chirag Uttamsingh Zoheb Lokhandwala Priya Mani Nasrin Akhter Prem kishan Edhara Adnan Alawneh Jianchao Tan Ram Nayak Qingzhe Li Yifeng Gao