Bayesian Machine Learning
An announcement about an early summer school in Italy (Bolzano) with David Dunson as the lecturer, right after Valencia:
Applied Bayesian Statistics School
BAYESIAN MACHINE LEARNING WITH BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS
June, 11 – 15, 2010 – Bolzano/Bozen, ItalyLecturer
Prof. David B. Dunson
Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Durham, NC, USA
Programme and registration details are available on-line
Seems difficult to beat!
Xi'an's Og 
November 29, 2010 at 12:13 am
[…] The book Random effects and latent variable model selection, edited by David Dunson in 2008 as a Springer Lecture Note. contains several chapters dealing with evidence approximation […]
September 5, 2010 at 12:11 am
[…] Mathematics on public radio Following the Field medals awarded to Cédric Villani (the head of IHP and a former Dauphine PhD, as our president quickly communicated about) and Ngô Bao Châu (formely at Orsay, now moving to Chicago a fact omitted on the local news!), the French public radio, France Inter, dedicated one of its evening phone debates (Le Telephone Sonne) to research in Mathematics. The panelists were Cédric Villani, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon (head of IHES), and Guy Métivier (head of Mathematics at CNRS). This actually happens rather often (i.e. more often than once every four years when a French mathematician gets a Field medal) and I came across several of those by happenstance. The exercise (explaining to the layman what is the meaning of doing research in Mathematics and what are the advances made by the medalists in the current case) is interesting if delicate as the temptations to get lyrical or technical abound! I found the panelists did a very good job last Wednesday night. (Note that Terry Tao gave a summary of the four panelists’ achievements on his blog.) In linking pure and applied maths, ie stating that there was no frontier between the two and that pure mathematicians are often involved in fruitful applications, Cédric Villani even mentioned Statistics, which is nice even though I doubt there is the remotest chance a statistician could get the Field Medal. (Incidentally, the COPSS Award, which is the Field Medal of Statistics, was attributed to David Dunson, from Duke, last August. Well-deserved, David!) […]