Content - Loss functions and surrogate loss functions - Regularized empirical risk minimization - Ingredients from empirical process theory - Reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces - Kernel-based learning machines Level: M.Sc. course in mathematics Beginning this week, lectures are on: Monday 11:45 to 13:15, Friday 9:45 to 11:15 Beginning next week, the tutorials are on: Friday 14:00 to 15:30