The next O’Bayes conference will take place in Athens, 8-12 June 2025. Registration is open, as well as a call for posters. As in (all?) earlier episodes of these Objective Bayes methodology conferences, speakers and discussants are invited by the scientific committee. And the first afternoon consists of tutorials on different aspects of Objective Bayes methodology. The conference will take place in the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Centre. (Unfortunately, I will not be able to attend O’Bayes 2025, once again, due to my attending BayesComp 2025 the week after.)
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O’Bayes 2025 [με αθηναϊκό άρωμα]
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Posted in Travel with tags Acropolis museum, Athens, Greece, Parthenon on September 15, 2009 by xi'an
Yesterday night, the workshop ended earlier than planned and we took the opportunity to get to the Acropolis in the early evening. While the place was not immensely crowded with tourists, it was still very busy. I found the fact that the hill is surrounded by the endless city of Athens detrimental to the beauty of the site as most vistas have the city in the background… It was as if the extreme encasement of those ruins within the modern Athens had killed the magic of the centuries of history and the cultural significance of the place. Surrounded by blathering crowds, it was indeed extremely difficult to see beyond the noise, cranes and scaffoldings towards the one birthplace of civilisation. (I experienced similar feelings when I visited the Guiza pyramids in Cairo last year, for the same reason that the place was progressively swallowed by the surrounding suburbs, and also not properly maintained…)
It was furthermore a major disapointment to find the new Acropolis museum unexpectedly closed for the evening, due to a social gathering there, as I was very much looking forward to the visit… We could thus only stare at the modern building behind the gates. Next workshop, maybe?!
