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One World ABC seminar [season 2]

Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags data privacy, differential privacy, machine learning, Max Planck Institute, One World ABC Seminar, University of Warwick, webinar on March 23, 2021 by xi'an

The One World ABC seminar will resume its talks on ABC methods with a talk on Thursday, 25 March, 12:30CET, by Mijung Park, from the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, on the exciting topic of producing differential privacy by ABC. (Talks will take place on a monthly basis.)

black holes capture Nobel

Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags astronomy, Astrophysics, black holes, Garching, Max Planck Institute, Milky Way, Nobel Prize, relativity on October 7, 2020 by xi'an

Under different circumstances, I would have been on site in Garching yesterday when Mack Planck director Reinhard Genzel was revealed as one of the Physics Nobels for his work with Andrea Ghez on the black hole at the centre of our galaxy.

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state of the art in sampling & clustering [workshop]

Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Autrans, clustering, Garching, Germany, HMC, Max Planck Institute, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, nested sampling, sampling, workshop on September 17, 2020 by xi'an

Next month, I am taking part in a workshop on sampling & clustering at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik in Garching, Germany (near München). By giving a three hour introduction to ABC, as I did three years ago in Autrans. Being there and talking with local researchers if the sanitary conditions allow. From my office otherwise. Other speakers include Michael Betancourt on HMC and Johannes Buchner on nested sampling. The remote participation to this MPI workshop is both open and free, but participants must register before 18 September, namely tomorrow.