Greetings, and apologies for cross-posting.
Subject to the availability of sufficient travel funds, the Statistics
Group (which at present consists of David Draper, Thanasis Kottas, Herbie
Lee, Raquel Prado, and Bruno Sanso) in the Department of Applied
Mathematics and Statistics (AMS) at the University of California, Santa
Cruz (UCSC), will host an
International Workshop on Bayesian Data Analysis
at UCSC from Friday through Sunday 8-10 August 2003, as a kind of
satellite meeting to be held right after the Joint Statistical Meetings
nearby in San Francisco, CA, from August 3-7, 2003.
We have submitted a grant application to the US National Science
Foundation and are also aggressively pursuing funding opportunities at
UCSC (in the form of research matching funds and private donor funds); we
expect to know by the end of Mar 2003 what the budget will be to provide
partial travel funding to participants.
This is a preliminary announcement of this meeting and a kind of
provisional call for contributed papers (subject to the availability of
sufficient travel funds) -- if you are potentially interested in attending
this Workshop, we would ask you to hold the dates 8-10 August 2003 in your
calendar and watch this space for further announcements in the winter and
spring.
If you have any questions about the Workshop I would be happy to attempt
to answer them -- please see below for more details.
Many thanks and best wishes, David Draper
International Workshop on Bayesian Data Analysis
Fri-Sun 8-10 Aug 2003
A residential meeting at the University of California, Santa Cruz
This will be a residential Workshop on the campus of the University of
California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), with a target attendance of about 100
people.
There will be about 30 invited participants (speakers and discussants)
drawn from a number of disciplines in which Bayesian modeling and data
analysis is prominent, including applied mathematics, bioinformatics,
biology, biostatistics, computer science, engineering, epidemiology,
machine learning, and statistics.
The focus of the workshop will be Bayesian data analysis: starting with a
real problem in science or decision-making, formulating this problem in
statistical terms, using Bayesian methods to solve the original problem,
and discussing the strengths and weaknesses of the solution both
statistically and substantively, with plenty of attention to the interplay
between the real-world context and the Bayesian model-building, checking,
and reformulating.
We envision a fairly small meeting, with approximately 9-10 invited
sessions spread out over 2 1/2 days (no parallel sessions); each session
will probably feature two speakers (who will talk for about 35 minutes)
and a discussant (who will speak for about 15 minutes), followed by floor
discussion (there will be ample breaks between sessions and for meals).
The contributed papers will be presented in one or more evening poster
sessions along the lines of the Bayesian Valencia meetings in Spain.
We expect that the Workshop will offer invited sessions in at least the
following areas: bioinformatics, biostatistics/epidemiology, engineering
applications, machine learning/computer science, nonparametric and
semiparametric methods, simulation-based computation, and spatiotemporal
modeling.
We hope to achieve significant participation by both young and more
established researchers, and to bring people together from internationally
leading research centers in as many continents as possible (at least
Australia, Europe, North America, and South America).
Subject to the availability of sufficient travel funds, partial travel
funding to the meeting will be available, in part on the basis of need,
and with emphasis on funding to permit young researchers and members of
groups underrepresented in science and engineering (e.g., underrepresented
minorities, women, and persons with disabilities) to participate (we are
hoping that the proximity of the Workshop in space and time to the Joint
Statistical Meetings will permit people to attend both conferences with a
fairly modest amount of travel support from the Workshop itself).
Appendix on Santa Cruz and UCSC
(slightly purple prose, which doesn't involve much exaggeration, borrowed
and edited from the UCSC web site)
By virtue of (a) its spectacular setting, nestled within 2,000 acres of
redwood forest and meadows overlooking the Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary of California's beautiful Central Coast, (b) its award-winning
architecture, and (c) its network of picturesque bikeways and pathways,
the University of California, Santa Cruz is considered one of the most
visually inspiring campuses in the world. It's located about 70 miles (115
km) south of San Francisco and 30 miles (50 km) from Silicon Valley, at
the north end of Monterey Bay, with the Monterey-Carmel peninsula at the
south end of the bay about 40 miles (65 km) away. Santa Cruz itself
(population around 50,000) is a beach resort close to some of the most
stunning redwood groves in the U.S. The weather in the summer usually
features bright but mild sunny days with a bit of coastal marine fog
burning off by late morning; the maximum daily temperature in August is
usually in the 70-79 degrees F range (21-27 degrees C), although days in
the mid-80s F (about 29 degrees C) are not impossible, and the low
temperature at night is typically about 15-20 degrees F (8-11 degrees C)
below the daily max. Rainfall in August is rare.
UCSC was founded in 1965 with two goals: excellence in research in the
sciences, and innovation in undergraduate education. Among other subjects,
UCSC has nationally and internationally recognized research programs in
astronomy, astrophysics, bioinformatics, biology, chemistry, earth
sciences, machine learning, and ocean sciences. The Baskin School of
Engineering, in which the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics
(AMS) resides, was created in 1997 and strives for research and teaching
excellence in biotechnology, information technology, and nanotechnology.
AMS began in 2001 with the following main goal: the creation of centers of
national and international excellence in Bayesian statistics and in
applied mathematical modeling of complex dynamic systems. Further
information about UCSC is available at
http://www.ucsc.edu/
; in particular, maps of various kinds are available at
http://maps.ucsc.edu/
. Additional details on AMS and the Baskin School of Engineering may be
found at
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/
and
http://www.ams.ucsc.edu/
.
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Professor David Draper
Chair, Department of
Applied Mathematics web http://www.ams.ucsc.edu/~draper/
and Statistics email [log in to unmask]
Baskin School of phone US (831) 459 1295, nonUS +1 831 459 1295
Engineering fax US (831) 459 4829, nonUS +1 831 459 4829
University of California
1156 High Street departmental web pages www.ams.ucsc.edu
Santa Cruz CA 95064 USA
Interesting quotes, number 24 in a series:
The end is in the beginning; and yet you go on.
-- Samuel Beckett
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