Archive for mirror workshop
off to Nagoya [ISBA 2026]
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags #ERCSyG, Aichi Prefecture, Bayesian Adversarial Privacy, Bayesian conference, Bayesian inference, Institute of Statistical Mathematics, ISBA 2026, Japan, mirror workshop, multi-hub conference, Nagoya, Ocean, privacy, satellite workshop, Tokyo, vacations, zaibatsu on June 27, 2026 by xi'an
reporting on the future of ISBA conferences
Posted in Books, Kids, Travel, University life with tags committee work, discussion, inclusiveness, ISBA, ISBA 2026, Japan, mirror workshop, multi-hub conference, Nagoya on June 25, 2026 by xi'an
Following our earlier survey on the topic, we have now returned our report on the future of ISBA conferences to the ISBA Executive Committee and Guido Consonni wrote an extensive summary of the contents of this report for the ISBA Bulleting that just appeared. This is most timely since it comes just days prior to the ISBA World Meeting in Nagoya, Japan, with a discussion session on Thursday, during lunch break, where we will present the conclusions of this report and engage in discussions with the participants. Looking forward to it!
invited sessions for BayesComp 2027
Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags Aussois, BayesComp 2027, Bayesian Computing Section, conference, France, invited talk, ISBA, MCMSki, mirror workshop, multihub conferences, Texas, Texas A&M University, USA on June 12, 2026 by xi'an
BayesComp 2027, ISBA computational conference (and successor to the MCMski series) will take place in Texas A&M University, College Station, on 18-20 May 2027. The scientific committee has launched a call for invited session proposals, with deadline 15 Aug 2026. For those unable to get to Texas, a mirror meeting is planned in Aussois, French Alps, on the same week. (Details to follow.)
NeurIPS 2026 in Paris, and in Sydney, and in Atlanta
Posted in Statistics with tags annual conference, Arc de Triomphe, Australia, ELLIS, EurIPS, François Rude, France, locks, machine learning research, mirror workshop, NeurIPS 2026, Paris, Sydney, Sydney Bridge, Sydney Opera on May 21, 2026 by xi'an
NeurIPS 2026 is calling for workshops. With deadline 06 June. It made me realize that, this year, NeurIPS will be held across three locations: Sydney as the main location, plus Paris and Atlanta as quasi mirrors. In fact, the European venue was selected by ELLIS to build on the success of EurIPS. Notably, Paris will mark the first time NeurIPS has an official European parallel conference where authors can present their accepted papers without registering for Sydney. NeurIPS workshops in Paris will take place on December 12–13. Another significant argument that mirror meetings are coming to a place near(er and nearer) to you!
lost science
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags @ScientistTrump, Agent Orange, book review, capitalism, China, globalisation, grants, greed, indirect costs, liberalism, mirror workshop, Mondrian forests, nationalism, Newspeak, NIH, NSF, public funding, student visa, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Trump 2.0, Trump administration, UCS, University of Ottawa, US Congress, US research on February 22, 2026 by xi'an
On the 2026 US budget prospects, the battle between the Trump administration and the US Congress will a.s. (hopefully!) continue, incl. the cuts to indirect costs, the politisation of grant panels, the drop in foreign student applications and conference attendees. The maps are making much more sense through Nature interactive page than on paper. Since the Mondrian-like maps that represent grant cuts and cancellations according to state, funding source (NIH, NSF—from which direction our Ottawa U friend Panchanathan resigned last April), court reinstatement, and topics. Still, the dynamic change of colours and the lack of scale make these poor or even terrible graphs. Over-optimistic scientists consider reimagining higher education towards public needs (to be distinguished from populist and conspirationist calls on which ground?!), turning to philanthropic support (with highly uncertain long-term prospects, seeing how quickly high-tech moguls turned their jackets under Orange pressure!), and the remaining entries are just wistful thinking… The UCS (Union of Concerned Scientists) is reported documenting 536 attacks of the Trump administration on science and scientific integrity, not counting harassment and intimidation, but this pales against the several thousand federal scientists who have fired and the remaining ones who (still) work in federal agencies under several swords of Damocles, from abruptly cut funding, to newly prohibited domains of research, like health disparities and sexual diseases, to firing, and to visa cancellation… Not a comforting read, this 22 Jan issue of Nature, when realising how massive, deep, long-term-impacting, the havoc the Trump administration has wreaked (or wrought!) on science as much as economy and international relations.
