On December 1, 2017, we will hold a day workshop on stochastic algorithms at Université Paris-Dauphine, with the following speakers
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Rémi Bardenet – CNRS Lille / CRISTAL [10:00]
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Nicolas Chopin – ENSAE / CREST [11:00]
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Aymeric Dieuleveut – ENS / DI & INRIA [14:00]
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Aude Genevay – Dauphine / CEREMADE & INRIA [15:00]
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Pierre Monmarché – UPMC / LJLL [16:30]
Details and abstracts of the talks are available on the workshop webpage. Attendance is free, but registration is requested towards planning the morning and afternoon coffee breaks. Looking forward seeing ‘Og’s readers there, at least those in the vicinity!
And while I am targetting Parisians, crypto-Bayesians, and nearly-Parisians, there is another day workshop on Bayesian and PAC-Bayesian methods on November 16, at Université Pierre et Marie Curie (campus Jussieu), with invited speakers
and a similar request for (free) registration.
Yesterday, I was part of a (public) thesis committee at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie, in down-town Paris. After a bit of a search for the defence room (as the campus is still undergoing a massive asbestos clean-up, 20 years after it started…!), I listened to Florian Maire delivering his talk on an array of work in computational statistics ranging from the theoretical (Peskun ordering) to the methodological (Monte Carlo online EM) to the applied (unsupervised learning of classes shapes via deformable templates). The implementation of the 
