ABC [PhD] course

As mentioned in the latest post on ABC, I am giving a short doctoral course on ABC methods and convergence at CREST next week. I have now made a preliminary collection of my slides (plus a few from Jean-Michel Marin’s), available on slideshare (as ABC in Roma, because I am also giving the course in Roma, next month, with an R lab on top of it!):

and I did manage to go over the book by Gouriéroux and Monfort on indirect inference over the weekend. I still need to beef up the slides before the course starts next Thursday! (The core version of the slides is actually from the course I gave in Wharton more than a year ago.)

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Here is a call for applications (postdocs and PhDs, as well as undergrads) to the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics in the beautiful Basque country (in Bilbao, Spain):

BCAM, the Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (www.bcamath.org), is a Research Center whose mission is to develop high quality interdisciplinary research. With an international team of researchers, the scientific program is structured in several research areas covering various fields of Applied Mathematics. Moreover, BCAM is a host institution for several national and international research projects and also develops collaborative projects with Basque Industry.

BCAM has opened an International Call for Researchers, offering positions for Senior and Associate Researchers, Postdoctoral Fellows and PhD Students in all areas of Applied Mathematics. Specific positions are also available within the Research Project NUMERIWAVES “New Analytical and Numerical Methods in Wave Propagation”, coordinated by E. Zuazua and funded by the ERC – European Research Council.Applications must be submitted on-line. Deadline for submission: November 11th 2011

The deadline is November 11, about three weeks from now. Of course, when looking at the programme so far, it is very remotely connected with Statistics, but they do emphasize simulation. If not of the MCMC type.