After a rather extended wait, I learned today of the dates of the next MCMski conference, now called Bayes Comp, in Barcelona, Spain, March 26-29, next year (2018). With a cool webpage! (While the ski termination has been removed from the conference name, there are ski resorts located not too far from Barcelona, in the Pyrenees.) Just unfortunate that it happens at the same dates as the ENAR 2018 meeting. (And with the Gregynog Statistical Conference!)
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ISBA 2018, Edinburgh, 24-28 June
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC in Edinburgh, Arthur's Seat, Barcelona, conferences, Edinburgh, ICML 2018, ISBA 2018, MCqMC 2018, Rennes, Scotland, Stockholm on March 1, 2017 by xi'an
The ISBA 2018 World Meeting will take place in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 24-29 June 2018. (Since there was some confusion about the date, it is worth stressing that these new dates are definitive!) Note also that there are other relevant conferences and workshops in the surrounding weeks:
- a possible ABC in Edinburgh the previous weekend, 23-24 June [to be confirmed!]
- the Young Bayesian Meeting (BaYSM) in Warwick, 2-3 July 2018
- a week-long school on fundamentals of simulation in Warwick, 9-13 July 2018 with courses given by Nicolas Chopin, Art Owen, Jeff Rosenthal and others
- MCqMC 2018 in Rennes, 1-6 July 208
- ICML 2018 in Stockholm, 10-15 July 2018
- the 2018 International Biometrics Conference in Barcelona, 8-13 July 2018
Mixtures in Madrid (2)
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Barcelona, EM, Madrid, mixtures, UAM, Ubuntu 10.10 on April 13, 2011 by xi'an
Today I gave my first lecture in Universidad Autonoma Madrid. Apart from a shaky start due to my new computer not recognising the videoprojector, I covered EM for mixtures in the one and half hour of the course. I obviously finished the day with tapas in a nearby bar, vaguely watching Barcelona playing an improbable team to merge with the other patrons… In the second lecture, I hope to illustrate both EM and Gibbs on a simple mixture likelihood surface.
