Archive for UK
5,000,883 signatures later…
Posted in Statistics with tags Brexit, deadline, EU, European Union, Leamington Spa, People's Vote, petition, second referendum, town of Warwick, UK on March 24, 2019 by xi'an
put it to the people [last chance?!]
Posted in Kids, Travel with tags Brexit, deadline, European Union, Ides of March, London, People's Vote, second referendum, UK on March 23, 2019 by xi'an
Meltdown expected, engines stop running…
Posted in Statistics with tags Brexit, EU, European Union, London, London calling, second referendum, The Clash, UK, UK politics on January 15, 2019 by xi'an
BNP12
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Bayesian nonparametrics, BNP12, Coventry, England, ISBA, Midlands, O'Bayes 2019, objective Bayes, Oxford, support, UK, University of Oxford, University of Warwick on October 9, 2018 by xi'an
The next BNP (Bayesian nonparametric) conference is taking place in Oxford (UK), prior to the O’Bayes 2019 conference in Warwick, in June 24-28 and June 29-July 2, respectively. At this stage, the Scientific Committee of BNP12 invites submissions for possible contributed talks. The deadline for submitting a title/abstract is 15th December 2018. And the submission of applications for travel support closes on 15th December 2018. Currently, there are 35 awards that could be either travel awards or accommodation awards. The support is for junior researchers (students currently enrolled in a Dphil (PhD) programme or having graduated after 1st October 2015). The applicant agrees to present her/his work at the conference as a poster or oraly if awarded the travel support.
As for O’Bayes 2019, we are currently composing the programme, following the 20 years tradition of these O’Bayes meetings of having the Scientific Committee (Marilena Barbieri, Ed George, Brunero Liseo, Luis Pericchi, Judith Rousseau and myself) inviting about 25 speakers to present their recent work and 25 discussants to… discuss these works. With a first day of introductory tutorials to Bayes, O’Bayes and beyond. I (successfully) proposed this date and location to the O’Bayes board to take advantage of the nonparametric Bayes community present in the vicinity so that they could attend both meetings at limited cost and carbon impact.
dead as a dodo!
Posted in pictures, Travel with tags Brexit, dodo, EU, no deal, The Daily Telegraph, Theresa May, UK on September 22, 2018 by xi'an
another tee-shirt issue
Posted in Statistics with tags climbing accident, Coventry, crack, lead fall, mountain equipment, Tasmania, tee-shirt, thumb, Totem Pole, UK on September 10, 2018 by xi'an
I bought this burgundy mountain equipment tee-shirt last time I was in Coventry as I found the play on the seam as a crack rather clever. (As if I needed new tee shirts!) I later reflected that the posture of the climber is quite wrong as this climber should not be holding the rope when falling: as I became rather painfully aware a few years, ropes can become dangerous when stretched in the vicinity of fingers… So I dropped a line to the company, which kindly replied to my email that they had digitised an actual picture of a falling climber, hoping no one would take this tee-shirt as a recommendation for lead falls! (Their site actually opens with a great picture of a climber on the iconic Totem Pole, Tasmania.)
lecturer position in Data Centric Engineering and Statistics, Imperial College London
Posted in pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags academic position, Britain, Engineering, England, Imperial College London, lecturer, London, Mark Girolami, position, South Kensington, UK on April 2, 2018 by xi'an
My friend and Warwick colleague Mark Girolami sent me this announcement for a permanent Lecturer position at Imperial [College London], funded by his recent research chair by the Royal Academy of Engineering (congrats, Mark!). Deadline is April 13, so hurry up!!!
