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corrida de Noël, Issy-les-Moulineaux [10K, 41’00, 701/3335, 1/38 M6M, 4´06/km]
Posted in pictures, Running, Travel with tags 10k, Brooks, corrida, Hyperion, Issy-les-Moulineaux, Paris suburbs, PariSanté campus, PHOTO running, road race, starting gate, Xmas on December 16, 2025 by xi'anMay¹⁶ it be mostly MCMC
Posted in pictures, Statistics, University life with tags determinantal point process, Issy-les-Moulineaux, MCMC, Monte Carlo methods, Mostly MCMC seminar, multimodal target, nonconvex sampling, Ocean, Paris, PariSanté campus, Porte de Versailles, quantum computer, rejection sampling, seminar on May 16, 2025 by xi'an
The next mostly MCMC seminar is actually happening today and (darn!) I forgot to advertise it! For those who can still make it, it will take place at 3PM (CEST) at the PariSanté Campus (in Room 08). The talks are by
- Rémi Bardenet on “Rejection sampling with quantum tricks: sampling determinantal point processes on a quantum computer”
- Martin Chak on “theoretical guarantees for nonconvex sampling”
mostly MCMC and definitely April¹¹
Posted in pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Bayesian neural networks, history of languages, interweaving, Issy-les-Moulineaux, linguistics, MCMC, Mostly MCMC seminar, Ocean, Paris, PariSanté campus, phylogeny, Porte de Versailles, seminar, Toy Model of Superposition on April 6, 2025 by xi'an
The next mostly MCMC seminar is coming. It will take place at 3PM (CEST) on Friday 11th April 2025 at the PariSanté Campus (in Room 08). The talks are
- Susan Wei (Monash University) “Dynamical versus Bayesian Transitions in a Toy Model of Superposition”
- Emma Kopp (Université Paris Dauphine, PSL), “Contrasting modes of cultural evolution: Kra-Dai languages and weaving technologies”
mostly [14] M[ar]C[h] seminar
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags dimension reduction, GLMs, gradient algorithm, importance sampling, Issy-les-Moulineaux, log-normal distribution, MCMC, Monte Carlo methods, Mostly MC, Mostly MCMC seminar, Ocean, Paris, PariSanté campus, Porte de Versailles, PSL, seminar, Università Bocconi, Université Paris Dauphine on March 8, 2025 by xi'anmostly MC’ruary [14 Feb 2025]
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags diffusions, exact sampling, irreducibility, Issy-les-Moulineaux, MCMC, Mostly MC, Mostly MCMC seminar, Ocean, Paris, PariSanté campus, PDMP, Porte de Versailles, reversibility, seminar on February 12, 2025 by xi'an


![A mostly Monte Carlo seminar next week, at 3pm [CET] on 14 March while I'll still be in Japan, unfortunately missing both talks!](https://i0.wp.com/xianblog.fr/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/screenshot_20250302_180323.png?resize=450%2C297&ssl=1)