Dear all,
The ABC in ... workshop series continues in Grenoble, France, on March 19-20 2020. We are still accepting contributions for oral presentations and posters, the deadline for submissions is on Feb. 21.
The workshop is free but registration is mandatory, and the call for presentation is open until the end of the week. Register on the website:
https://sites.google.com/view/abc-in-grenoble/
Confirmed speakers and sessions (more to come) are:
Misspecified models --- Guillaume Dehaene (EPFL, Switzerland) TBA Gael Martin (Monash University, Australia) Focused Bayesian Prediction (joint with Ruben Loaiza-Maya, David T. Frazier) Tommaso Rigon (Duke University, USA) A generalized Bayes framework for probabilistic clustering (joint with Amy Herring and David Dunson)
Neural network related techniques --- Flora Jay (Université Paris-Saclay, France) Deep learning for population size history inference: design, comparison and combination with approximate Bayesian computation Pierre-Alexandre Mattei (Inria Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée, France) Partially Exchangeable Networks and Architectures for Learning Summary Statistics in Approximate Bayesian Computation (joint with Samuel Wiqvist, Umberto Picchini, Jes Frellsen)
Advanced computational techniques --- Umberto Picchini (Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg, Sweden) Stratified sampling and bootstrapping for approximate Bayesian computation (joint with Richard G. Everitt) Dennis Prangle (Newcastle University, UK) Distilling importance sampling Hien D. Nguyen (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) ABC via the Energy Statistic (joint with Julyan Arbel, Hongliang Lü, Florence Forbes)
Grenoble is the largest city in the French Alps, and easily accessible by train from Paris, Lyon, Geneva or Milan.
Best regards,
Julyan Arbel, Simon Barthelmé, Florences Forbes
Julyan Arbel http://www.julyanarbel.com/ @JulyanArbel