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JSM 2015 [day #1]

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This afternoon, at JSM 2015, in Seattle, we had the Bayesian Computation I and II sessions that Omiros Papaspiliopoulos and myself put together (sponsored by IMS and ISBA). Despite this being Sunday and hence having some of the participants still arriving, the sessions went on well in terms of audience. Thanks to Mark Girolami’s strict presidency, we were so much on time in Bayesian Computation I that we had 20mn left for a floor discussion that turned into a speakers’ discussion! All talks were of obvious interest for MCMCists, but Ryan Adams’ presentation on firefly Monte Carlo got me thinking for most of the afternoon on different ways of exploiting the existence of a bound on the terms composing the target. With little to show by the end of the afternoon! On the mundane side, I was sorry to miss Pierre Jacob, who was still in France due to difficulties in obtaining a working visa for Harvard (!), and surprised to see Dawn Woodard wearing a Uber tee-shirt, until she told us she was now working at Uber! Which a posteriori makes sense, given her work on traffic predictions!


Filed under: Books, R, Statistics, Travel, University life Tagged: American Statistical Association, Bainbridge Island, Bayesian computation, delayed acceptance, ferry, Firefly MC, Harvard University, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, ISBA, JSM 2015, MCMC algorithms, Monte Carlo Statistical Methods, Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Seattle, traffic predictions, Uber

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