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de la Sierra Norte de Oaxaca [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags BIRS-CMO, ecoturismo, Expediciones Sierra Norte de Oaxaca, hiking, jatp, la sierra oaxaqueña, Mexico, Oaxaca, Zapotec communities on November 29, 2021 by xi'an
San Jeronimo Tlacochahuaya [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags BIRS-CMO, Casa Matemática Oaxaca, church, jatp, Mexico, Oaxaca, San Jeronimo Tlacochahuaya on November 28, 2021 by xi'an
snapshot from Mitla, Oaxacan
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Travel with tags BIRS-CMO, Casa Matemática Oaxaca, church, conquistadors, Iglesia de San Pablo, jatp, Mexico, Oaxaca, San Pablo Villa de Mitla, Zapotec civilization on November 28, 2021 by xi'an
more of Sugiton at dawn [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel with tags calanques, CIRM, dawn, jatp, Luminy campus, Marseille, Mediterranean Sea, mountain biking, outdoor swimming, Parc National des Calanques, Sugiton, tendinitis, workshop on November 7, 2021 by xi'an
Basque thesis defence [Bayes almost on the beach]
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Anglet, Basque country, Bayes on the Beach, Bayesian Analysis, Bayesian space-time models, Bayonne, Biarritz, chromatic sampler, Gaussian processes, interweaving, jatp, MCMC, nearest neighbor Gaussian processes, plane picture, surfing, Teams on October 21, 2021 by xi'an
Yesterday morning I took part in a thesis defence (as a jury member) in the coastal city of Anglet, in the (French part of the) Basque Country. The PhD candidate was Sébastien Coube-Sisqueille, whom I did not know directly (although we had crossed paths at CIRM years ago and he had attended my MCMC course at ENSAE even more years ago). As it happened all other members of the committee, apart from Sébastien’s advisor, Benoît Liquet, were on Teams, being unable to travel to the Basque Country. Sébastien’s thesis is about MCMC strategies to accelerate convergence in spatial models represented as nearest neighbor Gaussian processes (NNGP), which relates to the earlier works of (X)XL on interweaving. (Unsurprisingly, the defence was successful and the candidate awarded his PhD!) Icing on the cake, I managed to take a dip in the Atlantic Ocean, before flying back to Paris for dinner, on a very warm afternoon (and slightly cooler water), thanks to Sébastien driving me to a nearby beach!
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