trip to Montpellier

Last week, I flew down to Montpellier for two days of work on ABC model choice with Jean-Michel Marin and Pierre Pudlo. Although we missed the COLT 2014 deadline, we are now close to completing this work that will propose a rather radical change in our advocacy of how ABC model choice should be conducted. We actually spent the second day on the wonderful campus of INRA at Montferrier-sur-Lez, just outside Montpellier, discussing of the implications of this approach with our friends at CBGP, Jean-Marie Cornuet and Arnaud Estoup. With possible impact on the DIYABC software. It was a very profitable trip (not mentioning tasting great Grés de Montpellier wine!) and I hope to manage completing the paper with Pierre during the next week in Banff. Unfortunately, when I came back to my train station, I found some idiots had a go at my bike and bent the back wheel which then needed to be replaced…