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Programme(updated 14 September 2012)Monday 24 September12:00 - 13:00 Lunch and Registration13:00 Sonia Petrone (Bocconi) - "More informative conditional density estimation through mixture models" 13:50 Julia Mortera (Università Roma Tre) - "Probabilistic Expert Systems for Forensic Identification" 14:15 Coffee break 14:45 Alix Gitelman (Oregon State University) - "Multivariate Spatial Models with Continuous and Discrete Components" 15:15 - 16:00 Thomas Richardson (University of Washington) - "Nested Markov Properties for Acyclic Directed Mixed Graphs" 16:30 - 18:00 Reception and posters Tuesday 25 September09:00 Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford) - "Efficient Implementation of MCMC when using an unbiased likelihood estimator"09:50 Nicolas Chopin (CREST, INSEE) - "Expectation-Propagation for Likelihood-Free Inference" 10:15 Coffee break 10:45 Oliver Ratmann (Duke University and Imperial College) - "Approximate Bayesian Computation based on summaries with frequency properties" 11:15 Christian Robert (Paris-Dauphine) - "ABC and empirical likelihood" 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 Steffen Lauritzen (University of Oxford) - TBA 13:50 Paola Vicard (Università Roma Tre) - "Object-Oriented Bayesian Networks for a Decision Support System" 14:15 Coffee break 14:45 Claudia Tarantola (University of Pavia) - "Conjugate and Conditional Conjugate Bayesian Analysis of Discrete Graphical Models of Marginal Independence" 15:15 - 16:00 Alberto Roverato (Università di Bologna) - "Dichotomization invariant log-mean linear parameterization of discrete graphical models of marginal independence" 16:30 - 18:00 Reception and posters Wednesday 26 September09:00 Leonard Held (University of Zurich) - "Objective Bayesian model selection based on test statistics"09:50 Richard Everitt (Reading University) - "Bayesian parameter estimation for latent MRFs" 10:15 Coffee break 10:45 James Cussens (University of York) - "Model averaging for graphical models by repeated optimal model selection" 11:15 Eric Moulines (Telecom-ParisTech) - "Model aggregation in a PAC Bayesian perspective" 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick) - "Some Recent Advances in Optimal Scaling for MCMC" 13:50 John Kent (University of Leeds) - "The EM algorithm for the matching problem" 14:15 Coffee break 14:45 Natalia Bochkina (University of Edinburgh) - "A theoretical perspective on some Bayesian models in image analysis" 15:15 - 16:00 Nils Hjort (University of Oslo) - "Credibility, confidence and likelihood" 19:00 - late Conference dinner at Riverstation Thursday 27 September09:00 Michael Newton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) - "Computational challenges in a role model for gene set analysis"09:50 Forrest Crawford (UCLA Biomathematics/Yale University Biostatistics) - "Evolution, branching processes, and Markov models on trees" 10:15 Coffee break 10:45 Joe Herman (University of Leeds) - "Factorised approximations for inference in continuous-time Bayesian networks" 11:15 Christopher Holmes (University of Oxford) - "Reporting predictions from high-dimensional models: a decision theoretic approach" 12:00 - 13:00 Lunch 13:00 Sofia Massa (University of Oxford) - "Graphical models for Milky Way phase space" 13:30 Arnoldo Frigessi (University of Oslo) - "Safe preselection in lasso-type problems by cross-validation freezing" 14:15 - 14:45 Close and coffee |