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sequential meetings in Edinburgh

Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , 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).

StatMathAppli, Fréjus, France [18-22 September 2023]

Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , on April 13, 2023 by xi'an

The bi-yearly StatMathAppli conference will take place next September in Fréjus, France, with guest lecturers Marco Cuturi (ENSAE & Apple ML Research) who will a lecture on “Optimal Transport: From Theory to Tweaks, Computations and Applications in Machine Learning”, and Gareth O. Roberts (University of Warwick) who will give a lecture on “Topics in Retrospective Simulation”. Registration is open and the number of places is limited. (I got invited to the 2002 edition of this workshop, which took place in CIRM, Luminy.)

library, whatzat???

Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, University life with tags , , , , , , , on December 19, 2022 by xi'an

to be demolished!

Posted in Books, pictures, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , on May 8, 2022 by xi'an

bravo, Dr. Robert!!!

Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 11, 2021 by xi'an

Last Friday, our daughter Rachel attended the graduation ceremony for her medical school cohort master graduation. On the Saclay campus next to ENSAE (and so did we!), with nice and short talks by medicine professors and the University President, with a massive (?!) conflict of interest as her own daughter was part of this cohort!  And learned that she will work her first medical internship semester in French Guiana, next month, as part of her choice of a medical specialisation in internal medicine in the French Caribbean departments, over the five next years. Congrats to her and all of her fantastic friends for this massive achievement!!! And [fatherly and a wee bit anxious!] best wishes for this new and exciting period of her life!!! (And concerned thoughts for her female doctor colleagues at the French Institute for Mothers and Children in Kabul, like Dr. Arifa and Dr. Shoranghaize. interviewed in Le Monde the same day.)