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[Split] Frontiers in Statistical Machine Learning [reposted]

Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on September 19, 2026 by xi'an

In connection with the IMS conference ICSDS 2026, an IMS Frontiers in Statistical Machine Learning (FSML) satellite workshop takes place on Monday, December 14, 2026 (also) in Split, Croatia, the day before the main conference.

This year’s themes are generative and foundation models for statistics, and the science of deep learning. The keynote speakers are Yuxin Chen, Alexander Henzi, Andrej Risteski, Pragya Sur, Yan Shuo Tan, and Yuexi Wang.

There are two ways to present a poster, both non-archival:

– Workshop Track: short papers of 3 to 5 pages, work in progress welcome. Ten US$500 travel awards for students and postdocs.
– Fast Track: papers already accepted at NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, ICML, UAI, JMLR, or TMLR since August 2025. No additional review.

The deadline for both tracks is Monday, October 19

FSML 2026 organizers are:
Yuansi Chen, ETH Zurich
Sophie Langer, Ruhr University Bochum
Feng Liu, University of Melbourne
Xinwei Shen, University of Washington
Susan Wei, Monash University

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Bayesian persuasive privacy at ICML²⁶

Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 14, 2026 by xi'an

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Nature on mirror conferences

Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 28, 2026 by xi'an

In a news article entitled “Scientists skip key US meetings — and seize on smaller alternatives”, Nature discusses the impact of the restrictive policies put in place by the Trump administration on US conferences and their attendance. Including the multiplication of mirror and satellite meetings. One of the examples in the article is Neurips 2025,

“…the artificial-intelligence conference NeurIPS hosted not only its main meeting in San Diego, California, but also its first-ever alternative location, in Mexico City, with the goal of alleviating travel challenges (…) in response to “skyrocketing attendance and difficulties in obtaining travel visas some attendees have experienced in the past few years when only one location was available” [while] a group of AI researchers in Europe organized an independent spin-off conference, dubbed EurIPS, in Copenhagen (…) owing to concerns including climate change [and people expressing] a desire for a less hostile environment”

With a limited number of 500 participants attending in Mexico. And a massive number in Copenhagen, over 2,000! With a final quote from Emtiyaz Khan (a plenary speaker at ISBA 2026):

“[I] chose to travel to EurIPS rather than NeurIPS because of the difficulties many others faced in getting into the United States. The smaller nature of EurIPS made it much easier to meet and interact with other scientists. I absolutely loved it and I would love to see it happen again.”

This state of affairs is not going to vanish with Trump adding more countries to the banned country list, 75 at this stage!, and this is a call to arms for ISBA and IMS conference organisers towards planning for multi-hub configurations, since such international organisations cannot exclude a third of the countries in the World from attending their conferences. Which makes our current ISBA survey all the more relevant! I am currently building a mirror meeting for BayesComp 2027 in Aussois, French Alps. For those who cannot or do not wish to travel to Texas for the main conference.

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Bye’ ometrika

Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags , , , , , , , , , , , on February 1, 2024 by xi'an

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