Archive for Auvergne
Saint-Flour, 2023
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Auvergne, Bayesian nonparametrics, Clermont-Ferrand, probability summer school, Saint-Flour on February 4, 2023 by xi'anmathematical 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'anArnaud 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.
ABC 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.)