From February 20th to March 8th, every Tuesday and Thursday, the second grade students of the Master in Actuarial and Financial Sciences can attend to a Machine Learning course on the Puerta de Toledo campus, which will be held by José Garrido, proffesor of the University of Concordia in Canada and who is now doing and investigation stay on the Carlos III University for a year. 

This course has an extended program, where a big amount of topics about Machine Learning will be taught. You can see the whole program right below: 

Week 1: 

- The uses of Predictive Analyrics and Machine Learning

- The Decision Tress methods

Week 2: 

- The Random Forest algorithims

- The Stochastic Gradiant Boosting algorithims

Week 3: 

- Non-linear regression with splines (MARS)

- Students lectures of a work with CART, TreeNet or Random Fest