Competition Monday, October 5, 2015 : First submission deadline. You must make your first submission by this deadline. New entrants are not allowed after this date. Monday, October 5, 2015 : Team Merger deadline. Team mergers are not allowed after this date. Monday, October 12, 2015 : Final submission deadline. All deadlines are at 11:59 PM UTC on the corresponding day unless otherwise noted. The organizers reserve the right to update the contest timeline if they deem it necessary. Code Verification & Selection October 14, 2015 : The three top ranking teams on the private leaderboard must turn in their code to qualify for prizes ( [see Eligibility instructions](https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics/details/prizes) ). Post-challenge verification starts. October 26, 2015 : Teams wanting to submit for the HEP Meets ML Award must provide code for their models and a textual description (500-1000 words). November 2, 2015 : Winners announced, invitations to NIPS workshop go out. December 11, 2015 : NIPS workshop on ML & HEP. Announcement of HEP Meets ML Award.