Tutorial, Bayes net for forensic DNA analysis, 
Satellite, Dice, DNA Helix, Distance Matrix of pairs of amino acids, 
Bristol Balloon festival
SuSTaIn Events Closing Workshop

Contact
send an email


SuSTaIn Closing Workshop

SM2, School of Mathematics

University of Bristol
13th and 14th September 2016

PROGRAMME

Tuesday 13th September

0900 Tea, coffee, pastries

0915 Opening and Welcome
SuSTaIn: Guy Nason

0920 Andrew Smith, (Bristol)
A 21st-Century approach to prediction of IVF success.

1015 James Ridgway, (Bristol)
On the properties of variational approximation of Gibbs posteriors

1105 Coffee break

1120 Dino Sejdinovic, (Oxford)
Inference with Kernel Embeddings

1215 Adam Johansen
Iterations of filtering

1305 Lunch

1350 Marcelo Pereyra, (Bristol/Heriott-Watt)
Optimisation-empowered Bayesian computation for imaging inverse problems

1445 Ioannis Papastathopoulos, (Edinburgh)
Extreme events of Markov chains

1535 Coffee

1555 Nayia Constantinou, (Warwick)
Causal inference in the decision theoretical framework of statistical causality

1900 Dinner
Avon Gorge Hotel

Wednesday 14th September

0900 Tea, coffee, pastries

0920 Fei Xiang, (Cambridge)
Collapsing of non-centred parameterised MCMC algorithms with application to epidemic models

1015 Richard Everitt, (Reading)
Improving the efficiency of ABC algorithms

1110 Heather Battey, (Imperial)
Principled inferefence for large covariance and precision matrices

1200 Coffee and light refreshments

1220 Ludger Evers (TBC) (Glasgow)
Title: TBC

1315 Closing Remarks
SuSTaIn: Peter Green, FRS

Back to Closing Workshop page