When I entered the classroom on the Jussieu campus where the Monday morning session on PDMP was taking place, some friends told me a badge was waiting for me at the registration desk of MCM 2023! Most surprisingly since I had received a deregistration message a few weeks earlier. Great PDMP session with non-reversible tempering (warning: some PDMPs were harmed in the tempering process), scaling PDMPs for highly anisotropic targets, a PDMP form of reversible jump (with sticky floors!) and a more adaptive version of no-U turn via… PDMPs. After lunch at the nearby Grande Mosquée de Paris (I had not visited since… 1974!), I attended the slice sampler session, where mileage varied imho. With a take on doubly-intractable targets that did not seem to relate to the existing literature.
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re-MCM’d
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end of a long era [1982-2017]
Posted in Books, pictures, Running, University life with tags École Polytechnique, badge, boxes, CREST, ENSAE, INSEE, Insee Paris Club, Malakoff, moving, office, Paris, Paris-Saclay campus on May 23, 2017 by xi'an
This afternoon I went to CREST to empty my office there from books and a few papers (like the original manuscript version of Monte Carlo Statistical Methods). This is because the research centre, along with the ENSAE graduate school (my Alma mater), is moving to a new building on the Saclay plateau, next to École Polytechnique. As part of this ambitious migration of engineering schools from downtown Paris to a brand new campus there. Without getting sentimental about this move, it means leaving the INSEE building in Malakoff, on the outskirts of downtown Paris, which has been an enjoyable part of my student and then academic life from 1982 till now. And also leaving the INSEE Paris Club runners! (I am quite uncertain about being as active at the new location, if only because going there by bike is a bit more of a challenge. To be addressed anyway!) And I left behind my accumulation of conference badges (although I should try to recycle them for the incoming BNP 11 in Paris!).
