Big’MC seminar
Two very interesting talks at the Big’ MC seminar on Thursday:
— Phylogenetic models and MCMC methods for the reconstruction of language history by Robin Ryder
— Uniform and non-uniform random generators by Régis Lebrun
which are both on topics close to my interest, evolution of languages (I’ll be a philologist in another life!) and uniform random generators.
Xi'an's Og 
February 26, 2010 at 12:07 am
[…] Welcome, Robin! Robin Ryder started his new blog with his different solutions to Le Monde puzzle, solutions that are much more elegant than my pedestrian rendering. I particularly like the one based on the Jacobian of a matrix! (Robin is doing a postdoc in Dauphine and CREST—under my supervision—on ABC and other computational issues, after completing a PhD in Oxford on philogenic trees for language history with Geoff Nicholls. His talk at the Big’MC seminar of last month is reported there.) […]
January 31, 2010 at 6:29 am
[…] In case you did not read all the slides of Regis Lebrun’s talk on pseudo-random generators I posted yesterday, one result from Marsaglia’s (in a 1968 PNAS paper) exhibited my ignorance during […]