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]
Posted in Statistics with tags Athens, Athens University of Economics and Business, BayesComp 2025, conference, foundations of objective Bayesian methodology, Greece, ISBA, ISBA conference, National Technical University of Athens, National University Singapore, O'Bayes, O'Bayes 2022, O'Bayes 2025, objective Bayes, Parthenon, Renzo Piano, scientific committee, Singapore, Stavros Niarchos Foundation, tutorial on November 6, 2024 by xi'anStanCon 2023 [20-23 June 2023]
Posted in Statistics with tags Bayesian modelling, convention, R, St. Louis, STAN, StanCon 2023, tutorial on April 8, 2023 by xi'an
MCqMC 2020 live and free and online
Posted in pictures, R, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags COVID-19, England, Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, MCQMC 2020, Monte Carlo methods, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, Oxford, quasi-Monte Carlo methods, remote conference, tutorial, University of Oxford, virtual reality, webinar, youtube on July 27, 2020 by xi'an
The MCqMC 20202 conference that was supposed to take place in Oxford next 9-14 August has been turned into an on-line free conference since travelling remains a challenge for most of us. Tutorials and plenaries will be live with questions on Zoom, with live-streaming and recorded copies on YouTube. They will probably be during 14:00-17:00 UK time (GMT+1), 15:00-18:00 CET (GMT+2), and 9:00-12:00 ET. (Which will prove a wee bit of a challenge for West Coast and most of Asia and Australasia researchers, which is why our One World IMS-Bernoulli conference we asked plenary speakers to duplicate their talks.) All other talks will be pre-recorded by contributors and uploaded to a website, with an online Q&A discussion section for each. As a reminder here are the tutorials and plenaries:
Invited plenary speakers:
Aguêmon Yves Atchadé (Boston University)
Jing Dong (Columbia University)
Pierre L’Écuyer (Université de Montréal)
Mark Jerrum (Queen Mary University London)
Peter Kritzer (RICAM Linz)
Thomas Muller (NVIDIA)
David Pfau (Google DeepMind)
Claudia Schillings (University of Mannheim)
Mario Ullrich (JKU Linz)
Tutorials:
Fred Hickernell (IIT) — Software for Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods
Aretha Teckentrup (Edinburgh) — Markov chain Monte Carlo methods
Korean trip
Posted in Mountains, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, Bayesian asymptotics, Bukhasan, campus, CREST, jatp, Korea, Korean Statistical Society, Rutgers University, Salzburg, Seoul, Seoul National University, tutorial, University of Seoul on November 24, 2019 by xi'an
A fairly short but exciting trip to Seoul and to the Fall meeting of the Korean Statistical Society there. Plus giving a seminar at Seoul National University, where I stayed and enjoyed its beautiful campus surrounded by hills painted in the flamboyant reds and yellows of trees. Running to the top of Gwanaksan in the early morning, with some scrambling moments, was a fantastic beginning for the day! 
Although it was quite unintentional Sacha Tsybakov from CREST happened to be another invited speaker at the meeting (along with Regina Liu from Rutgers, whom I was also met in Salzburg two months ago) and we had a nice stroll together on the University of Seoul campus during a break in the sessions, gaining another view of the city from the top of the Bukhasan mountain. The talk I gave there on the asymptotics of ABC happened to be more attended than my tutorial lecture delivered at the beginning of JSM in Denver this summer. I am thus quite grateful to the organisers for their invitation and this opportunity to meet Korean statisticians and to get a glimpse of Korean culture and cuisine!
BayesComp 20 [schedule]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, R, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags BayesComp 2020, Bayesian computation, breaking news, conference, Florida, Gainesville, ISBA, Nimble, poster session, rStan, tutorial, University of Florida on November 20, 2019 by xi'an
The schedule for the program is now available on the conference webpage of BayesComp 20, for the days of 7-10 Jan 2020. There are twelve invited sessions, including one j-ISBA session, and a further thirteen contributed sessions were selected by the scientific committee. And two tutorials on the first day. Looking forward seeing you in Florida! (Poster submissions still welcomed!)
