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a summer of British conferences!
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags BAYSM 2018, Britain, conference, Edinburgh, England, ISBA 2018, iwsm2018, statistical modelling, University of Bristol, Warwick on January 18, 2018 by xi'an
Mahalanobis at the bus-stop [jatp]
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bengal, buses, conference, India, Indian Statistical Institute, jatp, Kolkata, Mahalanobis distance, P.C. Mahalanobis, Statistics on January 3, 2018 by xi'an
Two bus-stops around the Indian Statistical Institute, featuring its founder, Prasanta Chandra Mahalanobis.
back to Kolkata [শুভ নব বর্ষ]
Posted in pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags শুভ নব বর্ষ, conference, Darjeeling tea, India, Indian food, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, Mahalanobis distance on January 1, 2018 by xi'an
With high probability (!), I am off to Kolkata tonight, almost an exact year after I visited the city and the Department of Statistics of the University of Kolkata. On this occasion, I will attend a conference celebrating the 125th birthday of Mahalanobis and be staying at the Indian Statistical Institute, in another part of the city. Although I will only stay there for three days, I am looking forward meeting old friends and new faces, enjoying Bengali food and replenishing my reserves of Darjeeling tea. Shubho Nabobarsho (Happy New Year in Bengali)! As in the previous trip, I was also invited at a second conference at the Indian Association For Productivity, Quality & Reliability, on New Paradigms in Statistics for Scientific and Industrial Research, but decided against talking there for fear of being stuck for hours in the infamous Kolkata traffic.
journée statistique/apprentissage sur un plateau [19/01/18]
Posted in pictures, Statistics, University life with tags conference, IHES, Paris-Saclay campus, ParisTech, Statistical learning on December 18, 2017 by xi'an
off to Austin!
Posted in Books, Kids, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Austin, conference, ISBA, O'Bayes17, objective Bayes, Objective Bayesian hypothesis testing, Robert Dedman, Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, USA on December 9, 2017 by xi'an
Today I am flying to Austin, Texas, on the occasion of the O’Bayes 2017 conference, the 12th meeting in the series. In complete objectivity (I am a member of the scientific committee!), the scientific program looks quite exciting, with new themes and new faces. (And Peter Müller concocted a special social program as well!) As indicated above [with an innovative spelling of my first name!] I will give my “traditional” tutorial on O’Bayes testing and model choice tomorrow, flying back to Paris on Wednesday (and alas missing the final talks, including Better together by Pierre!). A nice pun is that the conference centre is located on Robert De[a]dman Drive, which I hope is not premonitory of a fatal ending to my talk there..!
random matrix advances
Posted in pictures, Statistics with tags Alan Turing, conference, machine learning, Paris, random matrices on October 23, 2017 by xi'an
OBayes 17 travel support
Posted in Statistics with tags Austin, conference, funding, ISBA, new researchers, O'Bayes17, objective Bayes, Texas, The University of Texas at Austin, travel grant on September 1, 2017 by xi'an
The OBayes 17 conference in Austin, Texas, next December is getting nearer! This post is to advertise for the availability of a dozen travel grants for junior investigators, as detailed on the webpage of the conference. One of those grants will even become an ISBA New Researchers Travel Award for the event! This comes on top of registration and accommodation being quite reasonable, thanks to Peter Mueller’s efforts, and hence makes this conference most affordable and attractive for young researchers. Apply now!!!
