I just arrived in Autrans, on the Plateau du Vercors overlooking Grenoble and the view is fabulistic! Trees have started to turn red and yellow, the weather is very mild, and my duties are restricted to teaching ABC to a group of enthusiastic astronomers and cosmologists..! Second advanced course on ABC in the mountains this year, hard to beat (except by a third course). The surroundings are so serene and peaceful that I even conceded to install RStudio for my course! Instead of sticking to my favourite vim editor and line commands.
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[summer Astrostat school] room with a view [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, R, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags astrostatistics, Aussois, Banff, Bayesian statistics, France, Grenoble, Les Diablerets, R, RStudio, summer school, Vercors on October 9, 2017 by xi'anABC’ory in Banff [17w5025]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags 17w5025, ABC, Approximate Bayesian computation, Banff, BIRS, Canada, convergence, Les Diablerets, Rocky Mountains, synthetic likelihood on February 21, 2017 by xi'anThe ABC workshop I co-organised has now started and, despite a few last minutes cancellations, we have gathered a great crowd of researchers on the validation and expansion of ABC methods. Or ABC’ory to keep up with my naming of workshops. The videos of the talks should come up progressively on the BIRS webpage. When I did not forget to launch the recording. The program is quite open and with this size of workshop allows for talks and discussions to last longer than planned: the first days contain several expository talks on ABC convergence, auxiliary or synthetic models, summary constructions, challenging applications, dynamic models, and model assessment. Plus prepared discussions on those topics that hopefully involve several workshop participants. We had also set some time for snap-talks, to induce everyone to give a quick presentation of one’s on-going research and open problems. The first day was rather full but saw a lot of interactions and discussions during and around the talks, a mood I hope will last till Friday! Today in replacement of Richard Everitt who alas got sick just before the workshop, we are conducting a discussion on dimensional issues, part of which is made of parts of the following slides (mostly recycled from earlier talks, including the mini-course in Les Diablerets):
Les Diablerets skyline [jatp]
Posted in Kids, Mountains, pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags Banff, inversion, Les Diablerets, ski, snow, Switzerland, Vaud, winter sports on February 12, 2017 by xi'anThe short course I gave in Les Diablerets, Switzerland, was highly enjoyable, at least for me!, as it gave me the opportunity to present an overview of the field, just before our workshop in Banff and to stay in a fantastic skiing area for four days! While I found out that my limited skiing skills are gone even more limited, the constant fresh snow falling during my stay and the very small number of people on the slopes made the outdoor highly enjoyable, the more because the temperatures were quite tolerable. The above picture was taken on the only morning it did not snow, with a nice cloud inversion over the valley separating France and Switzerland.