Today I took the Eurostar to London to give a seminar at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL. (Just a few blocks from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Diseases, where I gave an ABC talk last year.) I had great fun, thanks to an uninterrupted sequence of meetings: I got a crash course on RKHS (reproducible kernel Hilbert spaces) by Arthur Gretton, discussed about estimating the number of species, dealing with unknown functions of the parameter in the likelihood, using tests as ABC statistics, and explained how to use empirical likelihoods in non-iid settings. After this full day, we had a superb dinner at St. John, a Michelin starred restaurant with highly enjoyable English cuisine, offering game and offal dishes that reminded me of Le Petit Marguery in Paris… (Not a place for vegetarians, obviously.)
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Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, empirical likelihood, Eurostar, Gatsby, London, RKHS, seminar, St. John restaurant, UCL on February 8, 2013 by xi'anA heap of PhD studentships at UCL
Posted in R, Statistics, University life with tags fMRI, London, machine learning, Mark Girolami, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, PhD position, Riemann manifold, UCL, University College London on June 22, 2011 by xi'anMark Girolami sent me this announcement for six PhD studentships in Statistical Methodology and Its Application at University College London (UCL) that are great opportunities for anyone interested in computational statistics!
The studentships are attached to the Department of Statistical Science at University College London, and a subset of them are UCL Impact awards. Impact awards support collaborative studentship projects with organisations such as charities, companies, government institutions and social enterprises. The impact awards are joint with Lloyds bank, Xerox Research Centre Europe, and NCR Labs, respectively. Read more »
Cosmology meets machine learning
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, ABC in London, cosmology, Imperial College London, London, machine learning, UCL, workshop on April 6, 2011 by xi'an
There is a workshop on cosmology and machine learning at UCL on May 3-4, i.e. just before the ABC in London workshop at Imperial! I wish I had heard about it earlier so as to plan my trip accordingly… There is even a talk on ABC in cosmology by Manfred Opper! The next day (during the ABC in London workshop) is an update about the GREAT10 data challenge.
