In case ‘Og’s readers are not aware, tomorrow, Monday 25 June, is the final day for registration in our incoming LMS/CRiSM summer school on computational statistics taking place at the University of Warwick, two weeks from now, 9-13 July, 2018. There is still room available till midday tomorrow. Greenwich Mean Time. And no later!
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Warwick summer school on computational statistics [last call]
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Amazon, Art Owen, BAYSM 2018, computational statistics, CRiSM, deadline, Google, Greenwich Mean Time, ISBA, ISBA 2018, London Mathematical Society, MCqMC 2018, poster, registration, summer s, University of Warwick on June 24, 2018 by xi'anpositions in French universities [deadline]
Posted in Kids, Statistics, University life with tags academic position, assistant professor position, deadline, France, French universities, lecturer, qualification, Université Paris Dauphine on October 21, 2016 by xi'an
For ‘Og’s readers interested in lecturer or professor positions in French universities next academic year, including a lecturer position at Paris-Dauphine in applied and computational statistics!, you need to apply for a qualification label by a national committee which strict deadline is next Tuesday, October 25, at 4pm (Paris/CET time). (The whole procedure is exclusively in French!)
MLSS 2016: machine learning summer school in Cádiz [deadline]
Posted in Kids, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags AISTATS 2016, Auray-Vannes half-marathon, Bayesian non-parametrics, Berder, Brittany, Cadiz, deadline, half-marathon, machine learning, MLSS, Spain on March 11, 2016 by xi'an
Following [time-wise] the AISTATS 2016 meeting, a machine learning school is organised in Cádiz (as is the tradition for AISTATS meetings in Europe, i.e., in even years). With an impressive [if downright scary] poster! There is no strong statistics component in the programme, apart from a course by Tamara Broderick on non-parametric Bayes, but the list of speakers is impressive and the ten day school is worth recommending for all interested students. (I remember giving a short course at MLSS 2004 on Berder Island in Brittany, with the immediate reward of running the Auray-Vannes half-marathon that year…) The deadline for applications is March 25, 2016.
Statistics and Computing special MCMSk’issue [call for papers]
Posted in Books, Mountains, R, Statistics, University life with tags Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, deadline, guest editors, JRSSB, MCMSki IV, Read paper, Series B, ski resorts, special issue, Statistics and Computing, The Economist, University of Warwick on February 7, 2014 by xi'an
Following the exciting and innovative talks, posters and discussions at MCMski IV, the editor of Statistics and Computing, Mark Girolami (who also happens to be the new president-elect of the BayesComp section of ISBA, which is taking over the management of future MCMski meetings), kindly proposed to publish a special issue of the journal open to all participants to the meeting. Not only to speakers, mind, but to all participants.
So if you are interested in submitting a paper to this special issue of a computational statistics journal that is very close to our MCMski themes, I encourage you to do so. (Especially if you missed the COLT 2014 deadline!) The deadline for submissions is set on March 15 (a wee bit tight but we would dearly like to publish the issue in 2014, namely the same year as the meeting.) Submissions are to be made through the Statistics and Computing portal, with a mention that they are intended for the special issue.
An editorial committee chaired by Antonietta Mira and composed of Christophe Andrieu, Brad Carlin, Nicolas Chopin, Jukka Corander, Colin Fox, Nial Friel, Chris Holmes, Gareth Jones, Peter Müller, Antonietta Mira, Geoff Nicholls, Gareth Roberts, Håvård Rue, Robin Ryder, and myself, will examine the submissions and get back within a few weeks to the authors. In a spirit similar to the JRSS Read Paper procedure, submissions will first be examined collectively, before being sent to referees. We plan to publish the reviews as well, in order to include a global set of comments on the accepted papers. We intend to do it in The Economist style, i.e. as a set of edited anonymous comments. Usual instructions for Statistics and Computing apply, with the additional requirements that the paper should be around 10 pages and include at least one author who took part in MCMski IV.
ABC…ancun, July 13, 2014
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, Cancún, conference, deadline, ISBA, ISBA sections, logo, Mexico, objective Bayes, short courses, Valencia conferences, Yucatan on November 15, 2013 by xi'an
We received the good news from the Program Committee of the next ISBA World meeting in Cancún, Quintana Roo, México, that our proposal of a short course on ABC methods was accepted. So, along with Jean-Michel Marin, I hope to introduce ABC to a large group of interested participants on either July 13 or the morn of July 14. Here is the abstract for the short course
ABC appeared in 1999 to solve complex genetic problems where the likelihood of the model was impossible to compute. They are now a standard tool in the statistical genetic community but have also addressed many other problems where likelihood computation was also an issue, including dynamic models in signal processing and financial data analysis. However, these methods suffer to some degree from calibration difficulties that make them rather volatile in their implementation and thus render them suspicious to the users of more traditional Monte Carlo methods. Nonetheless, ABC techniques have several claims to validity: first, they are connected with econometric methods like indirect inference. Second, they can be expressed in terms of various non-parametric estimators of the likelihood or of the posterior density and follow standard convergence patterns. At last, they appear as regular Bayesian inference over noisy data. The lectures cover those validation steps but also detail the different implementations of ABC algorithms and the calibration of their parameters. The second part of the course illustrates those issues in the special case of the coalescent model used in population genetics, where many of the early advances of ABC were first implemented.
and the complete description is available on the ISBA website.
In addition, the special ISBA section sessions for BayesComp and O’Bayes ISBA sections have been accepted too. (As well as sessions for most of the other ISBA sections.) Thanks to Raquel Prado and to the whole scientific committee for working hard towards another successful ISBA World meeting! Note that the early bird conference registration begins today, so make sure to book your seat for Cancun!
