Archive for workshop
di ritorno a Venezia, nella privacy oceanica
Posted in pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags #ERCSyG, Bayesian privacy, Campo Sant'Alviso, canals, differential privacy, ERC, ERC Synergy Grant, Italia, laguna, Les Houches, Ocean, San Giobbe, swimming pool, uncertainty quantification, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Venezia, visiting position, workshop on March 15, 2026 by xi'an
persuasive (and Oceanic) privacy
Posted in Books, Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags #ERCSyG, adversarial strategy, arXiv, Bayesian decision theory, Bayesian privacy, decision-making agents, differential privacy, ERC, ERC Synergy Grant, fairness, French Alps, game theory, Les Houches, Ocean, uncertainty quantification, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, Université Paris Dauphine, Venice, workshop on February 3, 2026 by xi'an
I am quite excited about the paper James Baillie, Joshua Bon, Judith Rousseau, and myself just arXived! A novel framework for measuring privacy we have been working on for at least the past year, partly through the previous Les Houches privacy workshops. In the spirit of these workshops and the larger scale ERC Synergy grant OCEAN, we develop therein a rather generic Bayesian game-theoretic perspective on achieving statistical privacy. It involves a Sender (observing the original data and delivering a limited output) and a Receiver (with potential adversarial intentions). The paper mostly focus on setting a theoretical framework, including the creation of new, purpose-driven privacy definitions that are rigorously justified, while also allowing for the assessment of existing privacy guarantees through game theory. While this was not our original intent, we show that pure and probabilistic differential privacy notions, in the Dwork et al. (2006) sense, are special cases of our framework. This setting provides new interpretations of the post-processing inequality. Furthermore, and somewhat more importantly, we also prove that our privacy guarantees can be established for deterministic algorithms, which are outside current privacy standards. Hopefully, we’ll make further progress at the incoming privacy workshop next month, to be held in Venice (again).
4th Bayesian Nonparametrics Networking Workshop [call for contributions]
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bayesian nonparametrics, BNP, BNP Section, ISBA, ISBA 2026, Japan, Nagoya, satellite workshop, Seoul, South Korea, University of Seoul, workshop on January 6, 2026 by xi'an
Scottish June
Posted in Mountains, pictures, University life with tags ABC, ABC in Edinburgh, approximately Bayes, Bayes Centre, Dunedin, ICMS, MCqMC 2026, New Zealand, OP26, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, SIAM Conference on Optimization, Skye, University of Edinburgh, workshop on October 23, 2025 by xi'an
I just found out that three almost consecutive events of academic interest are taking place in Scotland next Spring: first, our very own Approximately Bayes ICMS workshop (on the Isle of Skye, rather than at the Bayes Centre in Edinburgh, where we held ABC in Edinburgh), on 17-22 May
the SIAM Conference on Optimization (OP26) in Edinburgh on 2-5 June
and the Monte Carlo + quasi Monte Carlo (MCqMC 2026) conference in Edinburgh on 8-11 June
While I cannot realistically (!) attend all of these events, this accumulation of meetings is a perfect opportunity to enjoy the Athens of the North (aka Dùn Èideann, from which Dunnedin in New Zealand originates!). And the surrounding mountains.
Advances in MCMC Methods [10-12 Dec, EURANDOM]
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC-MCMC, computational physics, Eindhoven, Eurandom, inverse problems, machine learning, Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, the Netherlands, workshop on September 28, 2025 by xi'an
