WORKSHOP ON RECENT ADVANCES IN MONTE CARLO BASED INFERENCE
Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK
30th October to 3rd November 2006.
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCB/scbw01.html
This workshop is part of a two month visitor programme at the Isaac
Newton Institute on "Stochastic Computation in the Biological Sciences".
The focus of the workshop is on Monte Carlo methods; primarily on recent
advances/ideas in terms of methodology, but also to include theoretical
results for these methods (which have practical importance); and work on
applying these modern computationally-intensive methods to important
scientific applications. For this workshop we have a relatively small
number of long talks, covering areas from MCMC and sequential Monte
Carlo to Variational methods, Indirect Inference and Quasi-Monte Carlo
methods amongst others. The current list of speakers is given below.
Note that while the visitor programme is focussing on applications in
the Biological Sciences, there is no such focus to this workshop. We are
aware that while Monte Carlo methods are now commonplace in a variety of
different scientific fields, often there is a lack of dissemination of
ideas across these fields. We hope to have people participating in the
workshop from a wide-range of disciplines (statistics, bioinformatics,
engineering, machine learning, physics etc.).
For further information, and details of how to apply:
http://www.newton.cam.ac.uk/programmes/SCB/scbw01.html
Current List of Speakers:
Christophe Andrieu (Bristol); Daan Frenkel (Amsterdam); Zoubin
Gharamani (Cambridge); Peter Green (Bristol); Chris Holmes (Oxford);
Yukito Iba (Tokyo); Pierre L'Ecuyer (Montreal); Jun Liu (Harvard); Dave
MacKay (Cambridge); Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Lancaster); Tony Pettit
(Queensland); Gareth Roberts (Lancaster); Robert Swendsen (Carnegie
Mellon); David Wales (Cambridge); Darren Wilkinson (Newcastle)
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