Conference on High Performance Computing for Statistical Inference
Trinity College Dublin
August 23rd-25th 2006
http://www.tcd.ie/Statistics/hpcsi/
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
Submission deadline: 25th April 2006
Submissions are being sought for contributed papers to this 2 1/2 day
meeting, organised by the Statistics Department of Trinity College Dublin,
in the following topics:
Implementation of statistical analysis with distributed computing;
Computation with very large stochastic systems;
Very large scale applications;
The suitability to parallelization of statistical methods;
MCMC;
Monte Carlo simulation in a distributed computing environment;
Grid technologies for statistical analysis;
Quantum computing and statistical inference.
Submission is of the form of 3 page extended abstracts.
So far, the following speakers have agreed to give invited talks:
Matthew Beal, State University of New York at Buffalo, "Variational
methods";
Adrian Dobra, Duke University, "Stochastic search";
Havard Rue, Norwegian Technical University, "Sampling of Gaussian Markov
random fields";
Andy Shearer, Irish Centre for High End Computing, "Grid technologies";
John Skilling, "Nested Sampling";
Darren Wilkinson, University of Newcastle, "Bayesian parallel computing".
Please go to conference webpage or contact organiser Simon Wilson at
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