…and from Rutgers

After my seminar in Princeton, I went to Rutgers University, in New Brunwick, New Jersey, to meet my friend Bill Strawderman and my former PhD student Aude Grelaud, and spent a pleasant evening with them. The next day, after a quick tour of the historical campus (great Old Dutch buildings!), I had a series of meetings with faculty members and with students, where we discussed extensions and applications of ABC. The seminar was on a tighter schedule than in Princeton, but we also managed to discuss the selection of summary statistics, while I insisted more on the (precision) gain brought by a reduction in the dimension of those summary statistics.

The schedule was tight as I had to catch a plane to Paris in New York (JFK) the same evening but taking advantage of the fairly efficient train facilities around New York, we still managed to share a quick beer at the Harvest Moon Brewery Café (I wish I had had time to get a tee-shirt from there!)… (The rest of the trip was 100% uneventful as I managed to sleep the whole flight back home!)