The Seventeenth Annual Conference on Learning Theory Moraine Lake, Banff National Park Slides from Stephen Boyd's invited talk on "Convex Opimization, Semidefinite Programming, and Recent Applications" can be found here. The Seventeenth Annual COLT (Conference on Learning Theory, formerly Workshop on Computational Learning Theory) will be held in Banff, Canada on July 1-4. This year COLT is collocated with ICML and UAI. The last morning of the conference will be reserved for a kernel methods session, linking with a similar session that will start the ICML conference on the afternoon of the same day. COLT '04 will also include a session devoted to the presentation of open problems. Open problems that are accepted for presentation at the conference will also appear in the conference proceedings. Sponsored by