Archive for Malakoff
to be demolished!
Posted in Books, pictures, University life with tags Adolphe Pinard, architecture, asbestos, boulevard périphérique, brutalism, CREST, ENSAE, INSEE, Le Monde, Malakoff on May 8, 2022 by xi'an
SMC 22 coming soon!
Posted in Statistics with tags computational inference, CREST, Madrid, Malakoff, particle filters, sequential Monte Carlo, SMC 2015, SMC 2022, Spain, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid on February 7, 2022 by xi'an
The 5th Workshop on Sequential Monte Carlo Methods (SMC 2022) will take place in Madrid on 4-6 May 2022. More precisely on the Leganés campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Registrations are now open, with very modest registration fees and the list of invited speakers is available on the webpage of the workshop. (The SMC 2020 workshop was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. An earlier workshop took place at CREST in 2015.)
homeless hosted in my former office
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Adolphe Pinard, CREST, Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique, ENSAE, France, homeless, INSEE, Institut National de la Statistique et des Études Économiques, Malakoff, Paris on September 24, 2020 by xi'an
no bull: corrida de thiais [5km, 19:36, 44/432, 1/18 M4H]
Posted in Running with tags France, Grand Masters, Malakoff, Paris, race, Thiais on December 15, 2019 by xi'an
end of a long era [1982-2017]
Posted in Books, pictures, Running, University life with tags École Polytechnique, badge, boxes, CREST, ENSAE, INSEE, Insee Paris Club, Malakoff, moving, office, Paris, Paris-Saclay campus on May 23, 2017 by xi'an
This afternoon I went to CREST to empty my office there from books and a few papers (like the original manuscript version of Monte Carlo Statistical Methods). This is because the research centre, along with the ENSAE graduate school (my Alma mater), is moving to a new building on the Saclay plateau, next to École Polytechnique. As part of this ambitious migration of engineering schools from downtown Paris to a brand new campus there. Without getting sentimental about this move, it means leaving the INSEE building in Malakoff, on the outskirts of downtown Paris, which has been an enjoyable part of my student and then academic life from 1982 till now. And also leaving the INSEE Paris Club runners! (I am quite uncertain about being as active at the new location, if only because going there by bike is a bit more of a challenge. To be addressed anyway!) And I left behind my accumulation of conference badges (although I should try to recycle them for the incoming BNP 11 in Paris!).
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