It has started! In case you need the link to follow the talks, here it is! And most slides and past talks are also on-line.
Archive for mirror workshop
ABC in… everywhere [programme]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC in Grenoble, ABC in Svalbard, ABC World seminar, Approximate Bayesian computation, approximate Bayesian inference, Brisbane, Grenoble, INRIA, Melbourne, mirror workshop, Monash University, programme, Svalbarði, The Morse Bask, Zoom on April 8, 2021 by xi'an
The ABC in Svalbard workshop is taking place on-line next week (and most sadly not in Svalbard). The programme is available on the ABC site. It starts (in Australia) at 4:00GMT (14 AEST) and finishes (in France) at 15:30GMT (17:30 CET). Registration is free but needed to access the Zoom codes! See you on Zoom next week!!!
ABC not in Svalbard [this time!]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags 80th parallel North, ABC in Grenoble, ABC in Svalbard, Australia, Brisbane, France, mirror workshop, Norway, Spitzberg, Svalbarði, walrus on January 28, 2021 by xi'an
Alas, thrice alas!, there will be no one attending the ABC in Svalbard in Svalbard next April. As the travel conditions to and around Norway are getting tougher, it is just too unrealistic to expect traveling to the Far North even from Oslo. Too bad, but hopefully there will be another opportunity in a near enough future…
However, don’t give up the fight!, the mirror meetings in Brisbane and Grenoble are still planned to take place, along with an on-line version accommodating most of the speakers invited so far. Anyone interested in holding another mirror meeting?! Please contact me.
ABC in Svalbard [update]
Posted in Mountains, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags 80th parallel North, ABC in, Australia, Autrans, Brisbane, Coventry, France, French Alps, Grenoble, Longyearbyen, mirror workshop, Norway, Queensland University of Technology, Svalbarði, University of Warwick on December 16, 2020 by xi'an
Even though no one can tell at this stage who will be allowed to travel to Svalbard mid April 2021, we are keeping the workshop to physically take place as planned in Longyearbyen. With at least a group of volunteers made of researchers from Oslo (since at the current time, travel between mainland Norway and Svalbard is authorised). The conference room reservation has been confirmed yesterday and there are a few hotel rooms pre-booked through Hurtigrutensvlabard.com. Anyone planning to attend just need to (i) register on the workshop webpage, (ii) book an hotel room for the duration of the workshop (or more)., and (iii) reserve a plane ticket as there are not that many flights planned.
Obviously this option should only attract a few brave souls (from nearby countries). We are thus running at the same time three mirror workshops in Brisbane (QUT), Coventry (University of Warwick), and Grenoble (IMAG & INRIA). Except for Warwick, where the current pandemic restrictions do not allow for a workshop to take place, the mirror workshops will take place in university buildings and be face-to-face (with video connections as well). Julyan Arbel has set-up a mirror webpage as well. With a (free) registration deadline of 31 March, the workshop being open to all who can attend. Hopefully enough of us will gather here or there to keep up with the spirit of the earlier ABC workshops. (To make the mirror places truly ABCesque, it should have been set in A as Autrans rather than Grenoble!)
visitors allowed in Svalbard
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, ABC in Svalbard, Approximate Bayesian computation, COVID-19, EEA, EU, Finland, Greenland, Longyearbyen, mirror workshop, NIPH, Norway, quarantine, Schengen Area, travel ban, workshop on November 8, 2020 by xi'an
