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post-Bayes workshop at UCL [15 & 16 May 2025]

Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on April 4, 2025 by xi'an

University College London (UCL) is organising a workshop on post-Bayes inference  and asked to post the announcement (despite my feeling that we have not entered the post-Bayes era!). So here it is:

Over the course of two days, they will host eight invited talks from leaders across the post-Bayesian landscape, spanning from PAC Bayes and generalised Bayes to predictive resampling and martingale posteriors. Alongside these, they will host six contributed talks, and a poster session to ignite discussion and innovation in our growing community. The workshop will complement the post-Bayesian seminar series.

Registration is now open, and they are actively accepting talk and poster submissions! (Deadline for submissions: April 11th, 2025.) Travel support for early career researchers will be available and announced closer to the date. See the website for more information. The workshop will take place in Bentham House, UCL, London.

[As a personal aside, we just learned that our proposal for an approximate(ly) Bayes workshop supported by ICMS (Edinburgh) and set on the magical Isle of Skye had been accepted! To be held in Spring 2026!]

approximate Bayesian inference [survey]

Posted in Statistics with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 3, 2021 by xi'an

In connection with the special issue of Entropy I mentioned a while ago, Pierre Alquier (formerly of CREST) has written an introduction to the topic of approximate Bayesian inference that is worth advertising (and freely-available as well). Its reference list is particularly relevant. (The deadline for submissions is 21 June,)