As 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..!
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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'anCIRM 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'an
The 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.
visitors allowed in Svalbard
Posted in Statistics with tags ABC, ABC in Svalbard, Approximate Bayesian computation, COVID-19, EEA, EU, Finland, Greenland, Longyearbyen, mirror workshop, NIPH, Norway, quarantine, Schengen Area, travel ban, workshop on November 8, 2020 by xi'an
state of the art in sampling & clustering [workshop]
Posted in Books, pictures, Statistics, Travel, University life with tags Autrans, clustering, Garching, Germany, HMC, Max Planck Institute, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, nested sampling, sampling, workshop on September 17, 2020 by xi'an
Next month, I am taking part in a workshop on sampling & clustering at the Max-Planck-Institut für Physik in Garching, Germany (near München). By giving a three hour introduction to ABC, as I did three years ago in Autrans. Being there and talking with local researchers if the sanitary conditions allow. From my office otherwise. Other speakers include Michael Betancourt on HMC and Johannes Buchner on nested sampling. The remote participation to this MPI workshop is both open and free, but participants must register before 18 September, namely tomorrow.
from Svalbard [with snow]
Posted in Statistics with tags 80th parallel North, ABC in Svalbard, Approximate Bayesian computation, arctiv fox, big 5, North, Norway, registration, snow, Svalbarði, Svalbard, wildlife photography, workshop on April 25, 2020 by xi'an
