Today I am flying to Roma for the 4th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, where I have been invited at a session on MCMC. This is a meeting leaning more towards probability than statistics, but I hope to learn from sessions close enough to my interests and obviously meet new people. At the same time this is an opportunity to see long time friends I haven’t seen since COVID and (cerise sur le gâteau !) to spend three days in Roma as I last visited this unique city with our parents in 2019 (with a fabulous discovery of the Ostia archaeological site!, as well as the visit to the very antique San Clemente al Laterano, with its Mithraic crypt).
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via per Roma
Posted in Statistics with tags 4th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Coliseo, conference, COVID, Italia, Italy, MCMC, Mithraic cult, Roma, Rome, San Clemente al Laterano, San Pietro in Vincoli on June 11, 2024 by xi'anFrench universities in poor conditions
Posted in Kids, University life with tags budget, COVID, French universities, Le Monde, student fees on June 8, 2024 by xi'an
Le Monde is sketching a pessimistic picture of the budgetary woes of (most) French universities, unable to maintain their buildings and even less to expand to accommodate an ever growing student population. Or to increase their faculty population. Meaning that more than half of the courses are delivered by temporary teachers. Budgets are now going down because of reductions decided by the current government to recoup the post-COVID spending frenzy. Not a single mention is found in these articles about the connection with essentially negligible fees, as well as with an unrestricted access to higher public education that results in wasted years for both students and institutions…
sequential meetings in Edinburgh
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Arthur's Seat, Bayes Centre, COVID, CREST, Edinburgh, ENSAE, Holyrood Park, ICMS, international centre for mathematical sciences, Mike Titterington, pandemic, Scotland, sequential Monte Carlo, SMC, summer school, welcome to Scotland on October 24, 2023 by xi'an
There will be not one but two consecutive events in Edinburgh next May²⁴ on sequential Monte Carlo methods! Both hosted by the fantastic International Centre for Mathematical Sciences (ICMS) in Edinburgh Olde Town. Within the Bayes Centre. And running distance to Arthur’s Seat. (Reminding me of my first ICMS workshop in 2001 run with Mike Titterington. May have been my first week long visit to Edinburgh as well…)
First, a Summer School on Bayesian filtering: fundamental theory and numerical methods (SSBF 2024), Edinburgh (UK), May 6-10, 2024. This summer (in the Scottish sense!) school will cover topics related to fundamental theory, state-of-the-art methodologies, and real-world applications.
Second, a Sequential Monte Carlo workshop (SMC 2024), the week later, on May 13-17, 2024. The workshop will cover topics related to sequential Monte Carlo and nearby fields, from theory to applications, following earlier workshops in the series. Including the one at CREST in 2015.
Thanks to Víctor Elvira, Jana de Wiljes, and Dan Crisan for this double deal (and the opportunity to return to Scotland for the first time since the pandemic).
best science graphic of the week?!
Posted in Statistics with tags bad graph, barplot, COVID, Nature, Omicron, pandemic, SARS-CoV-2 on January 24, 2023 by xi'an
bummer…
Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags Brussels, common cold, COVID, covidtracker, False positive, multiple tests, Thalys on September 20, 2022 by xi'an
