Archive for sculpture
Ryū [jatp]
Posted in Statistics with tags dragon, Higashino Keigo, Japan, jatp, Kumano Kodō, Kumano-Hongu Taisha shrine, ryū, sculpture, Wakayama prefecture on October 20, 2019 by xi'an
Angkor finale [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Angkor Wat, Buddhist temples, Cambodia, Hindu temples, jatp, lions, sandstone, sculpture, sunset on March 7, 2019 by xi'an
cement homeless
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags homeless, Isaac Cordal, New York city, Oxford, Oxford city council, sculpture, shelter, The Guardian, Unfinished People in NYC” on February 2, 2019 by xi'an
bâtiment Alan Turing [jatp]
Posted in pictures, Travel, University life with tags Alan Turing, École Polytechnique, INRIA, jatp, Paris-Saclay campus, sculpture on June 24, 2018 by xi'an
deaths at sea and a workshop
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags CIRM, conference, death at sea, Frontex, Jason deCaires Taylor, Jean Morlet Chair, Lanzarote, Marseille, Mediterranean Sea, migrants, refugees, sculpture, Statistics without Borders, The Raft of Lampedusa, Université Aix Marseille, workshop on May 9, 2018 by xi'an
For several years, actually from the beginning of the Syrian revolution, I have been looking for data and for statisticians working on migrant deaths resulting from crossing the Mediterranean. With very little success, either because the researchers I met had poor and fragmented data, or because the agencies I contacted showed no (good) will into returning these statistics. Frontex being the most blatant example. I thus read with a lot of interest this article “Uncounted: Invisible Deaths on Europe’s Borders” which analyses the reasons for not producing statistics on the deaths at sea linked with desperate migrants crossing the sea in ill-suited boats.
In connection with this pressing issue, Kerrie Mengersen, Pierre Pudlo and myself organise next November a small workshop on Young Bayesians and Big Data for social good, at CIRM, Marseille, France. It will take place on the weekend before our main conference, Bayesian statistics in the Big Data era, that is, on 23-26 November 2018. Registration is free (and on site accomodation is cheap) but the number of attendees is limited, so apply asap! Senior participants include at this stage Tamara Broderick (MIT), Julien Cornebise (Element AI, TBC), David Corliss (Peace Work), Ruth King (Edinburgh), Cody Ross (UCSD, TBC), and the workshop aims at bringing participants to work together on methodological challenges and characteristic datasets. The outcome of the workshop will be presented at the beginning of the Bayesian statistics in the Big Data era, conference, on Monday 26 November.
art brut
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Arsenale, art brut, Bienale, Ca' Foscari University, concrete, Italia, sculpture, Venezia on July 30, 2017 by xi'an
snapshot from Amiens [#1]
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Air France, Amiens, church nave, Gothic cathedral, Notre Dame d'Amiens, Picardy, sculpture, Somme, stained glass on March 31, 2016 by xi'an
