The next edition of the MaxEnt conferences, or more precisely workshops on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering , MaxEnt2023, will take place in Garching (bei München) next 3-7 July. At the Max-Planck-Institut für Plasmaphysik. While the conference is usually of strong interest, it is rather improbable I will attend it this year. (The only time I took part in a MaxEnt conference was in 2009, in Oxford. Oxford, Mississippi!).
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MaxEnt im Garching
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bayesian inference, Germany, Le Monde, Max Planck Institute, MaxEnt2023, maximum entropy, München, Munich, Oxford (Mississipi) on December 28, 2022 by xi'anwhy should I pay $350 for an on-line conference?!
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC, conference fees, Garching, insurance, München, One World Bernoulli IMS conference, SIAM, SIAM-CSE21 on February 11, 2021 by xi'an
Last year, I was invited to the SIAM-CSE20 conference for a session on ABC, in München, and was about ready to leave when the conference was posponed for pandemic reasons. My hotel in Garching charged me the entire stay, Danke sehr!, and I am uncertain about having been fully reimbursed for the reservation. The conference is taking place this year as an on-line meeting and I got re-invited. However, when trying to register, I found that the fees were the same as last year. And did not see the point, given the possibility of delivering a high quality virtual conference for free!, except to support SIAM. Hence withdrew my participation to the meeting, which was not particularly high on my list anyway… (On the same day I received another invitation for an Insurance conference, but they got me confused with my namesake!)
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.
uncertainty quantification unable to quantify coronavirus risks
Posted in Statistics, Travel, University life with tags ABC in Grenoble, conference cancellation, coronavirus epidemics, Garching, München, SIAM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Technische Universität München, UQ20 on March 8, 2020 by xi'an
MaxEnt 2019 [last call]
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel with tags conference, Garching, Germany, MaxEnt 2019, maximum entropy, München, O'Bayes 2019, Warwick on April 30, 2019 by xi'an
For those who definitely do not want to attend O’Bayes 2019 in Warwick, the Max Ent 2019 conference is taking place at the Max Planck Institute for plasma physics in Garching, near Münich, (south) Germany at the same time. Registration is still open at a reduced rate and it is yet not too late to submit an abstract. A few hours left. (While it is still possible to submit a poster for O’Bayes 2019 and to register.)
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