I will be talking (or rather zooming) at the statistics seminar at the University of Newcastle this afternoon on the paper Component-wise approximate Bayesian computation via Gibbs-like steps that just got accepted by Biometrika (yay!). Sadly not been there for real, as I would have definitely enjoyed reuniting with friends and visiting again this multi-layered city after discovering it for the RSS meeting of 2013, which I attended along with Jim Hobert and where I re-discussed the re-Read DIC paper. Before traveling south to Warwick to start my new appointment there. (I started with a picture of Seoul taken from the slopes of Gwanaksan about a year ago as a reminder of how much had happened or failed to happen over the past year…Writing 2019 as the year was unintentional but reflected as well on the distortion of time induced by the lockdowns!)
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one World ABC seminar [term #2]
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, ABCruise, Approximate Bayesian computation, approximate Bayesian inference, Bayesian synthetic likelihood, gaussian process, MCMC, One World ABC Seminar, online seminar, University of Warwick, webinar on September 29, 2020 by xi'an
The on-line One World ABC seminar continues on-line this semester! With talks every other Thursday at 11:30 UK time (12:30 central European time). Incoming speakers are
- Marko Järvenpää, on Batch simulations and uncertainty quantification in Gaussian process surrogate ABC, on the first of October
- David Frazier, on a minimum distance approach to ABC, on 15 October [Warning: 10:30 UK time, 11:30 EU time, 8:30 Victoria time!!!]
- David Nott, on Marginally calibrated deep distributional regression, on 12 November
- Matti Vihola, on the use of approximate Bayesian computation Markov chain Monte Carlo with inflated tolerance and post-correction, on 10 December
with presenters to be confirmed for 29 October. Anyone interested in presenting at this webinar in a near future should not hesitate in contacting Massimiliano Tamborrino in Warwick or any of the other organisers of the seminar!
JB³ [Junior Bayes beyond the borders]
Posted in Books, Statistics, University life with tags Bayesian Analysis, Bayesian computation, BayesLab, Charles Stein, COVID-19, Italy, jBayes, JB³, jISBA, junior researchers, Milano, online seminar, OxWaSP, pandemic, Statistics without Borders, Stein's method, Università Bocconi, University College London, webinar on June 22, 2020 by xi'an
Bocconi and j-ISBA are launcing a webinar series for and by junior Bayesian researchers. The first talk is on 25 June, 25 at 3pm UTC/GMT (5pm CET) with Francois-Xavier Briol, one of the laureates of the 2020 Savage Thesis Prize (and a former graduate of OxWaSP, the Oxford-Warwick doctoral training program), on Stein’s method for Bayesian computation, with as a discussant Nicolas Chopin.
As pointed out on their webpage,
Due to the importance of the above endeavor, JB³ will continue after the health emergency as an annual series. It will include various refinements aimed at increasing the involvement of the whole junior Bayesian community and facilitating a broader participation to the online seminars all over the world via various online solutions.
Thanks to all my friends at Bocconi for running this experiment!
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