Arnaud Guillin and Manon Michel from the Université Clermont-Auvergne are currently looking for PhD candidates interested in the mathematical analysis of neural networks via the tool of mean-field analysis. With full funding available. Candidates can contact Arnaud Guillin at uca.fr.
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mathematical understanding of neural networks through mean-field analysis [PhD studenship]
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags ANR, Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, mean field analysis, neural network, PhD fellowship on June 26, 2020 by xi'anABC in Clermont-Ferrand
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, ABC-Gibbs, Approximate Bayesian computation, Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, conditional sufficiency, cosmostats, dimension reduction, Gibbs sampling, likelihood-free methods, PMC, volcano on September 20, 2019 by xi'anToday I am taking part in a one-day workshop at the Université of Clermont Auvergne on ABC. With applications to cosmostatistics, along with Martin Kilbinger [with whom I worked on PMC schemes], Florent Leclerc and Grégoire Aufort. This should prove a most exciting day! (With not enough time to run up Puy de Dôme in the morning, though.)
tenure track position in Clermont, Auvergne
Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags academic position, Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, deep learning, France, machine learning, Puy de Sancy, Région Centre, Statistics, teaching load, tenure track on April 23, 2019 by xi'anMy friend Arnaud Guillin pointed out this opening of a tenure-track professor position at his University of Clermont Auvergne, in Central France. With specialty in statistics and machine-learning, especially deep learning. The deadline for applications is 12 May 2019. (Tenure-track positions are quite rare in French universities and this offer includes a limited teaching load over three years, potential tenure and titularisation at the end of a five year period, and is restricted to candidates who did their PhD or their postdoc abroad.)
in the street for a year
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel, University life with tags Auvergne, boulevard Lannes, competition, green future, jatp, Lac Pavin, landscape photography, Paris, Skye, the Quinrang, Université Paris Dauphine on April 13, 2018 by xi'anJust like about every year, I sent two of my pictures to the photography competition of Paris Dauphine, with not much consideration for the theme “green the future”, and was hence quite surprised to get selected this time! (Almost as much surprised as last year when an almost perfect copy of my picture of the Alcazar Baths of Lady María de Padilla got selected!) As I could travel back from Oxford to attend the opening ceremony, I went there last night, wondering at which of my pictures had been selected (Lac Pavin, Auvergne versus the Quinrang, Skye)…
And so this picture will remain exposed in the street, boulevard Lannes, for the incoming year, meaning I will cross it each time I bike to the university! The 22 other pictures were more in tune with the theme of a green future, like the winning one of a fast moving métro carriage at the station Chemin Vert. Or this simple blade of grass growing from ashes…
And thus the winner is… Continue reading