The ABC in Svalbard workshop is taking place on-line next week (and most sadly not in Svalbard). The programme is available on the ABC site. It starts (in Australia) at 4:00GMT (14 AEST) and finishes (in France) at 15:30GMT (17:30 CET). Registration is free but needed to access the Zoom codes! See you on Zoom next week!!!
With most of the World being more or less confined at home, conferences cancelled one after the other, including ABC in Grenoble!, we are launching a fortnightly webinar on approximation Bayesian computation, methods, and inference. The idea is to gather members and disseminate results and innovation during these coming weeks and months under lock-down. And hopefully after!
At this point, the interface will be Blackboard Collaborate, run from Edinburgh by Michael Gutmann, for which neither registration nor software is required. Before each talk, a guest link will be mailed to the mailing list. Please register here to join the list.
The seminar is planned on Thursdays at either 9am or more likely 11:30 am UK (+1GMT) time, as we are still debating the best schedule to reach as many populated time zones as possible!, and the first speakers are
| 09.04.2020 | Dennis Prangle | Distilling importance sampling | |
| 23.04.2020 | Ivis Kerama and Richard Everitt | Rare event SMC² | |
| 07.05.2020 | Umberto Picchini | Stratified sampling and bootstrapping for ABC |
 | xi'an on what a party! |
 | Radu on what a party! |
 | Zen on bye Charlie and thanks for all… |
| xi'an on B’day party! |
 | Andrew Gelman on B’day party! |
