I am invited to a (closed) workshop in Padua/Padova next March, “Recent advances in statistical inference: theory and case studies”, which is an exciting opportunity to discuss about recent advances in Bayesian methodology and likelihood inference, to meet with friends and to be back in this beautiful city where I met George Casella for the last time. (Keeping this vivid image of watching George running around the Prato della Valle as my bus was leaving the city towards Venezia airport.)
The workshop is organised in my favourite way, which is “to have a moderate number of invited talks at the workshop, to allow good time for presentation and discussion”. With discussants, which seems a vanishing structure in conferences where the length of the talks is getting shorter and shorter. When in Bristol last week, I realised how much I gained from a slower conference pace with fewer and longer talks, more time for discussion in between, and a well-scheduled poster session. Maybe old age speaking! Furthermore, part of the workshop takes place in the fabulous Caffè Pedrocchi, where we had dinner two years ago… Terrific (and exclusive, as the workshop is by invitation only!)
