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# Site settings
title: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics Conference
email: aistats2018@gmail.com
description: > # this means to ignore newlines until "baseurl:"
  This is the website of the AISTATS conference.
baseurl: "" # the subpath of your site, e.g. /blog/
#url: "http://www.aistats.org" # the base hostname & protocol for your site
#twitter_username: aistat
github_username:  aistats

github:
  edit: true
  repository: aistats2018.github.io
TZ: UTC

# Build settings
markdown: kramdown

# change encoding for the generated output files to utf-8
encoding: utf-8

# Handling Reading
#safe:         false
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exclude:      []
keep_files:   [".git", ".svn"]
encoding:     "utf-8"
markdown_ext: "markdown,mkdown,mkdn,mkd,md"

image:
  file: pvw.i7.png
  width: 400

banner:
  image: banner.png

credit_card_image: credit.png

conference:
  draft: true # set to True if the programme is draft only.
  logo: logo.jpg
  hide_tentative: true
  proceedings:
    url: 
    show: false
  room: Room
  venue: Hotel H10 Rubicon Palace
  venue_url: https://www.h10hotels.com/en/lanzarote-hotels/h10-rubicon-palace
  location: Playa Blanca, Lanzarote
  full_name: Artificial Intelligence and Statistics
  name: AISTATS
  year: 2018
  instance: 21st
  styling: International Conference on
  dates:
  - 2018-04-09
  - 2018-04-11
  submission:
    url: https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/AISTATS2018/
    name: Microsoft CMT website
  deadlines:  
  - name: Paper submission deadline
    type: submission
    time: 2017-10-13T23:59:00+0
  - name: Initial reviews available
    date: 2017-11-22
  - name: Author feedback deadline
    date: 2017-11-29
  - name: Paper decision notifications
    date: 2017-12-22
    type: decision
  - name: Camera ready (for accepted papers) deadline
    date: 2018-02-20
    type: camera-ready
  - name: Early registration deadline
    date: 2018-01-31
  - name: Regular registration deadline
    date: 2018-04-11
  chairs:
  - type: Program Chairs
    people:
    - family: Storkey
      given: Amos
      url: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/amos/
      institute: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
    - family: Perez-Cruz
      given: Fernando
      url: http://www.tsc.uc3m.es/~fernando
      institute: Swiss Data Science Centre, ETH Zurich
  - type: Workflow Chairs
    people:
    - family: Crowley
      given: Elliot
      url: http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/ecrowley/
      institute: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
#    - family: Alfeld
#      given: Scott
#      url: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~salfeld
#      institute: Department of Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin -- Madison
    - family:  Ruiz 
      given: Francisco
      url: http://franrruiz.github.io/
      institute: Columbia University
  - type: Publicity Chairs
    people: 
    - family: Antoniou
      given: Antreas
      url: https://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/people/students/Antreas_Antoniou.html
      institute: School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh
#  - type: Publication Chair
#    people:
#    - family:
#      given: 
#      url: 
#      institute: 
  - type: Fundraising Chair
    people: 
    - family: Lacoste-Julien
      given: Simon
      url: http://www.di.ens.fr/~slacoste/
      institute: Université de Montréal
#  - type: Conference Admins
#    people: 
#    - family: Smith
#      given: Karen
#    - family: Pregibon
#      given: Daryl
  sponsors:
#  - name: Disney Research
#    logo: dr-logo-red.png
#    url: http://www.disneyresearch.com
#    width: 250
#  - name: Google
#    url: http://research.google.com
#    logo: google.png
#    width: 250
#  - name: Netflix
#    url: http://www.netflix.com
#    logo: netflix.png
#    width: 250
#  - name: Tencent
#    url: http://www.tencent.com
#    logo: tencent.png
#    width: 250
#  - name: Springer
#    logo: springer.png
#    width: 300
#    url: http://www.springer.com
#  - name: Microsoft Research
#    logo: MSFT_logo_rgb_C-Gray.png
#    url: http://research.microsoft.com
#    width: 300

previous_meeting:
  name:
  url: