Just forwarding the announcement of an online workshop on algorithmic fairness, on 12 and 16 March (great idea to separate the two afternoons, GT-wise afternoons). It is organised by Paris, Genoa and Saarbrücken ELLIS units, and, although a member of the Paris unit, I am not involved in this event. (The speakers are pictured above.)
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foundations of algorithmic fairness
Posted in Statistics, University life with tags AI, ELLIS network, fairness, Genoa, Paris, Saarbrücken, workshop on February 14, 2021 by xi'andata assimilation and reduced modelling for high-D problems [CIRM]
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, University life with tags calanques, call for contributions, CIRM, CNRS, dimension reduction, fellowships, high dimensions, Luminy, Marseille, Méditerranée, mini-courses, optimisation, Parc National des Calanques, sampling, simulation, Société Mathématique de France, Sugiton, workshop on February 8, 2021 by xi'anNext summer, from 19 July till 27 August, there will be a six week program at CIRM on the above theme, bringing together scientists from both the academic and industrial communities. The program includes a one-week summer school followed by 5 weeks of research sessions on projects proposed by academic and industrial partners.
Confirmed speakers of the summer school (Jul 19-23) are:
- Albert Cohen (Sorbonne University)
- Masoumeh Dashti (University of Sussex)
- Eric Moulines (Ecole Polytechnique)
- Anthony Nouy (Ecole Centrale de Nantes)
- Claudia Schillings (Mannheim University)
Junior participants may apply for fellowships to cover part or the whole stay. Registration and application to fellowships will be open soon.
end-to-end Bayesian learning [CIRM]
Posted in Books, Kids, Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, University life with tags Bayesian learning, calanques, call for contributions, Casa Matemática Oaxaca, CIRM, CNRS, Fall, high dimensions, Luminy, Marseille, Méditerranée, mini-courses, Parc National des Calanques, robust Bayesian methods, scalable MCMC, Société Mathématique de France, Sugiton, workshop on February 1, 2021 by xi'anNext Fall, there will be a workshop at CIRM, Luminy, Marseilles, on Bayesian learning. It takes place 22-29 October 2021 on this wonderful campus at the border with the beautiful Parc National des Calanques, in a wonderfully renovated CIRM building and involves friends and colleagues of mine as organisers and plenary speakers. (I am not involved!, but plan to organise a scalable MCMC workshop there the year after!) The conference is well-supported and the housing fees will be minimal since the centre is also subsidized by CNRS. The deadline for contributed talks and posters is 22 March, while it is 15 June for registration. Hopefully by this time the horizon will have cleared up enough to consider traveling and meeting again. Hopefully. (In which case I will miss this wonderful conference due to other meeting and teaching commitments in the Fall.)
þe norse farce shoppe
Posted in Kids, pictures, Travel with tags black Friday, brands, CIRM, logo, Luminy, Normandy, North, outdoor, pun, summer school, tee-shirt, Teespring, The Norse Farce, Université Aix Marseille, Viking helmet, Viking longship, William the Conqueror, workshop on November 27, 2020 by xi'anAs an on-going multilevel pun (started with my misreading a famous outdoor brand logo as a Viking helmet!), and following popular request (at least from a few participants to our Bayesian school at CIRM two years ago!), I took advantage of one of the numerous make-your-own-tee websites to create a norse farce shop(pe) for afficionadas and afficionados..!
CIRM in dire need of help
Posted in Mountains, pictures, Running, Statistics, Travel, University life, Wines with tags Cassis, Centre International de Rencontres Mathématiques, CIRM, cofunding, COVID-19, France, Luminy campus, Marseiile, pandemic, Parc National des Calanques, SMF, Société Mathématique de France, sunrise, support, trail running, workshop on November 24, 2020 by xi'anThe International Mathematics Conference Centre, CIRM, located in Luminy, Marseille, France, has been deeply disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Up to 60 % of the events planned there have been cancelled so far and all remaining conferences have gone virtual or at best hybrid, open to a remote audience, including in an interactive way. This has required important and unexpected investments. Furthermore, this crisis happened at the worst possible moment as CIRM had just finished doubling its infrastructure capacities. This is why I strongly support the call from the French Mathematical Society (SMF) to make a donation to CIRM before the end of the year, especially from researchers who benefited from its hospitality and unique environment.