For anyone planning to do research, conference attendance is virtually mandatory for success. Aside from exposing yourself to a large collection of different ideas, many interesting conversations leading to new research happen at conferences. If you are a student, you should plan to go to at least one summer conference. Your advisor should cover the costs.
| Conference | Location | Early Registration deadline | normal/student cost in US dollars |
| AAAI | Pittsburgh, PA, USA | May 13 | 590/170 |
| IJCAI | Edinburgh, Scotland | May 21 | 663/351 |
| COLT | Bertinoro, Italy | May 30 | 256/178 |
| KDD | Chicago, IL, USA | July 15 | 590/260 |
| ICML | Bonn, Germany | July 1 | 448 |
| UAI | Edinburgh, Scotland | not ready yet | ??? |