Workshop Programme
for period 30 Oct-3 Nov
Recent Advances in Monte Carlo Based Inference
30 Oct-3 Nov
Timetable
| Monday 30 October | ||
| 08:30-10:00 | Registration | SCB |
| 10:00-10:05 | Welcome address | SCB |
| 10:05-11:00 | Tavar\'e, S (Cambridge) | SCB |
| Now you know your ABCs: examples and problems | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Pettitt, T (Queensland) | SCB |
| From doubly intractable distributions via auxiliary variables to likelihood free inference | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| 14:00-15:15 | Balding, D (Imperial) | SCB |
| Some developments of ABC | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Frigessi, A (Norwegian Computing Center) | SCB |
| Estimating functions in indirect inference | Sem 1 | |
| 17:00-18:00 | Welcome Wine Reception | SCB |
| 18:15-18:45 | Dinner at New Hall (Residents Only) | SCB |
| Tuesday 31 October | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Holmes, C (Oxford) | SCB |
| Population-based MC for sampling trans-dimensional Bayesian regression models | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Doucet, A (British Columbia) | SCB |
| Sequentially interacting Markov Chain Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Cappe, O (ENST-TSI) | SCB |
| Adaptive population Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| 14:00-15:15 | Ghahramani, Z (Cambridge) | SCB |
| Deterministic alternatives to MCMC | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Poster session | SCB |
| 18:15-18:45 | Dinner at New Hall (Residents Only) | SCB |
| Wednesday 01 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Iba, Y (ISM, Tokyo) | SCB |
| Applications of extended ensemble Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Leslie, D (Bristol) | SCB |
| Sequential Monte Carlo for Generalized Linear Mixed Models | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Johnson, T (Edinburgh) | SCB |
| A sequential importance sampler for reconstructing genetic pedigrees | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| 14:00-15:15 | Roberts, G (Lancaster) | SCB |
| Retrospective sampling | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Andrieu, C (Bristol) | SCB |
| The expected auxiliary variable method for Monte Carlo simulation | Sem 1 | |
| 18:15-18:45 | Dinner at New Hall (Residents Only) | SCB |
| Thursday 02 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Chopin, N (Bristol) | SCB |
| Extensions of the CE method for statistical analysis | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Mackay, D (Cambridge) | SCB |
| Nested sampling | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 11:30-12:30 | Crisan, D (Imperial) | SCB |
| Sequential Monte Carlo methods: can we replace the resampling step? | Sem 1 | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| 14:00-15:15 | Papaspiliopoulos, O (Lancaster) | SCB |
| Importance sampling for diffusion processes | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | Wilkinson, D (Newcastle) | SCB |
| Bayesian inference for nonlinear multivariate diffusion processes | Sem 1 | |
| 18:00-19:30 | CUP Bookshop Reception | SCB |
| 20:00-18:00 | Conference Dinner at Peterhouse (Dining Hall) | SCB |
| Friday 03 November | ||
| 09:00-10:00 | Frenkel, D (FOM-Institute) | SCB |
| Configurationally-Biased MC and Virtual-move parallel tempering | Sem 1 | |
| 10:00-11:00 | Green, P (Bristol) | SCB |
| Branching process Monte Carlo | Sem 1 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee | SCB |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch at Churchill College | SCB |
| 14:00-15:15 | Wales, D (Cambridge) | SCB |
| Sampling the energy landscape: thermodynamics and rates | Sem 1 | |
| 15:15-15:45 | Tea | SCB |
| 15:45-17:00 | L'Ecuyer, P (Montreal) | SCB |
| Randomized quasi-Monte Carlo for Markov Chains | Sem 1 | |
| 18:15-18:45 | Dinner at New Hall (Residents Only) | SCB |
| Other Seminars |
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Seminars in the University National and International Scientific Research Meetings |