spam

Another focussed spam in the mail:

Dear Dr. Christian P. Robert,

How are you?

I read your interesting article of “Error and inference: an outsider stand on a frequentist philosophy“, and I know you are an active professional in this field.

Now, I am writing you to call for new papers, on behalf of Review of Economics & Finance, which is an English quarterly journal in Canada.

This journal is currently indexed by EconLit of American Economic Association (AEA), EBSCO, RePEc, National Bibliography of Canada, Library and Archives Canada, DOAJ, Ulrich, and so on.

The publication fee is CAD$450, if your paper is qualified for publication after refereeing. The submission fee of $50 is NOT applied to you by March 6th, 2013.

Thank you for your consideration. Have a rewarding month!

At least, they are quite honest about the cost of publishing there. But they should check on which paper they pick rather than using a robot that takes a paper not talking about economics or finance… (And why on Earth this line about the rewarding month?!)

Banff sunset

Banff worshop [BIRS 12w5105 meeting]

The workshop 12w5105 at BIRS, Banff, has now started for good! To wit, we had the customary group photo outside the TransCanada Pipeline Pavilion where BIRS is now hosted. (With Mount Rundle as a guest star!) The first day saw talks by or on physics, astrophysics, and genetics. In particular, Dawn Woodard gave a particularly stimulating talk on the fine convergence analysis of Liu et al.’s (1995) seminal Gibbs algorithm: The most striking result related to an exponential decay in the spectral gap with the number of observations þ when the entropy is multimodal and the Markov chain jumps are also decreasing exponentially with þ. (As usual, I had trouble relating to the physics talks, more because of the vocabulary and of the focus than because of the contents… They sounded quite exciting, though, in their connections with correlated sampling and simulated annealing.) Here are the slides of my talk for tomorrow.

Banff sunrise

Peller icewine