Archive for The Prairie Chair
mostly M[ar]C[h]
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, University life with tags diffusions, generative modelling, generative models, Monte Carlo methods, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, mostly Monte Carlo seminar, normalizing flow, optimal transport, optimization, Paris, PariSanté campus, push-forward distribution, seminar, stochastic diffusions, The Prairie Chair on February 27, 2024 by xi'an
mostly MC[bruary]
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, University life with tags completion, contour algorithm, Gibbs sampling, insufficiency, IQR, mad, manifold, MCMC, median, Monte Carlo methods, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, mostly Monte Carlo seminar, Paris, PariSanté campus, sample median, seminar, The Prairie Chair on February 18, 2024 by xi'an
mostly MC[nuary]
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, University life with tags Monte Carlo methods, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, mostly Monte Carlo seminar, normalising flow, overdamped Langevin algorithm, Paris, PariSanté campus, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, seminar, The Prairie Chair on January 6, 2024 by xi'an
PR[AI]RIE colloquium [12/12]
Posted in Statistics with tags colloquium, optimal transport, Paris, Paris Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, Schrödinger bridge, Sinkhorn algorithm, The Prairie Chair, Wasserstein distance on December 2, 2022 by xi'an
postdoc shortage
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags bois de Boulogne, Brexit, COVID-19, La Défense, Nature, PariSanté campus, postdoctoral position, The Prairie Chair, Université Paris Dauphine, University of Oxford on October 4, 2022 by xi'an
An interesting tribune in Nature (30 August) about the difficulty in hiring postdocs… I myself faced this difficulty in the recent years but though it was mostly due to unattractive French salaries and working conditions, or COVID issues (or myself!). Nature mentions politics, economics, ethics, and personal priorities as main reasons for the postdoctoral drought. In Britain, Brexit is definitely a central factor as candidates face enormous bills to secure entry to the United Kingdom (as Hai-Dang Dau, now in Oxford, was explaining to us after his successful PhD defense at ENSAE-CREST this morning). But more globally this may reflect a general exodus from academia towards company jobs, and their much more attractive salaries. Especially in STEM where Amazon and buddies created a new definition of “dream jobs”… Anyway, I still have a prAirie postdoc position open in Paris Dauphine and the new PariSanté campus provides a great working environment, so feel free to contact me!
