Archive for Britain
ICWES18 in Warwick [11-14 September 2020]
Posted in Statistics with tags Britain, conference, Coventry, Engineering and Medicine, Faculty of Science, ICWES18, International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientist, University of Warwick on March 10, 2020 by xi'an
in Bristol for the day
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, ABC-Gibbs, Bristol, Britain, Cardiff, England, intractable likelihood, likelihood-free methods, seminar, slideshare, University of Bristol, Wales on February 28, 2020 by xi'an
I am in Bristol for the day, giving a seminar at the Department of Statistics where I had not been for quite a while (and not since the Department has moved to a beautifully renovated building). The talk is on ABC-Gibbs, whose revision is on the verge of being resubmitted. (I also hope Greta will let me board my plane tonight…)
MCqMC2020 key dates
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Britain, Eagle and Child, MCMC2020, Monte Carlo methods, Oxford, Oxford Mathematics, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, Saint Giles cemetery, scientific computing, University of Oxford on January 23, 2020 by xi'an
A reminder of the key dates for the incoming MCqMC2020 conference this summer in Oxford:
Feb 28, Special sessions/minisymposia submission
Mar 13, Contributed abstracts submission
Mar 27, Acceptance notification
Mar 27, Registration starts
May 8, End of early bird registration
June 12, Speaker registration deadline
Aug 9-14 Conference
and of the list of plenary speakers
Yves Atchadé (Boston University)
Jing Dong (Columbia University)
Pierre L’Ecuyer (Université de Montreal)
Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary University London)
Gerhard Larcher (JKU Linz)
Thomas Muller (NVIDIA)
David Pfau (Google DeepMind)
Claudia Schillings (University of Mannheim)
Mario Ullrich (JKU Linz)
ABC for fish [PhD position]
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, Approximate Bayesian computation, Britain, CEFAS, fisheries, individual based models, PhD position, University of Warwick on December 5, 2019 by xi'an
Richard Everitt (Warwick) is currently seeking a PhD candidate for working on approximate Bayesian computation methods, applied to Individual Based Models of fisheries, in collaboration with the government agency Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS). Details on how to apply . More details can be found at the page of the doctoral training partnership (one can search for the project on this site). The application deadline is Friday, January 10, 2020, and it is open to UK and EU students.
Xmas tree at UCL, with a special gift
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags academic position, Annals of Applied Statistics, Annals of Probability, Annals of Statistics, Britain, Current Index to Statistics, fellowships, IMS, London, Statistics, The BUGS book, UCL, University College London, Xmas on November 26, 2019 by xi'an
Ph.D. students at UCL Statistics have made this Xmas tree out of bound and unbound volumes of statistics journals, not too hard to spot (especially the Current Indexes which I abandoned when I left my INSEE office a few years ago). An invisible present under the tree is the opening of several positions, namely two permanent lectureships and two three-year research fellowships, all in Statistics or Applied Probability, with the fellowship deadline being the 1st of December 2019!
