Given by Konstantin Tretyakov
Brief summary: Feature space mapping, the kernel trick, dual representation, kernelization.
Slides: (pdf)
Literature:
Cristianini and Shawe-Taylor: An Introduction to Support Vector Machines pages 112 - 123
Schölkopf and Smola: Learning with Kernels pages 227-247
David MacKay: Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms pages 535 - 549