Archive for Université Aix Marseille
souvenirs de Luminy
Posted in Books, Kids, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags amazon associates, applied Bayesian analysis, Bayesian data analysis, case studies, CIRM, Jean Morlet Chair, Kerrie Mengersen, Lecture Notes in Mathematics, Luminy, Marseille, Pierre Pudlo, Société Mathématique de France, Springer-Verlag, Université Aix Marseille on July 6, 2020 by xi'an
faster HMC [poster at CIRM]
Posted in Statistics with tags CIRM, eHMC, HMC, Jean Morlet Chair, Luminy, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, NUTS, poster, Université Aix Marseille on November 26, 2018 by xi'antalks at CIRM with special tee-shirts
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, University life with tags Þe Norse face, Bayesian Analysis, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, CIRM, CNRS, HMC, JASP, logo, Luminy, Marseiile, master class, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, STAN, tee-shirt, Université Aix Marseille, videoed lectures, ye Norse farce on November 21, 2018 by xi'an
glorious dawn [jatp]
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Travel, University life with tags calanques, Cassis, CIRM, cliffs, dawn, jatp, Jean Morlet Chair, La Grande Candelle, Luminy, mare e monti, Parc National des Calanques, Sugiton, sunrise, trail running, Université Aix Marseille, workshop on October 25, 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.
