Please find enclosed the announcement of the 11th edition of
the ABS (Applied Bayesian Statistics) summer school. Like this
year, the 2014 school will be held in the magnificent Villa
del Grumello, in Como (Italy), on the Lake Como shore.
Guido Consonni and Fabrizio Ruggeri
ABS14 Directors
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Applied Bayesian Statistics School
APPLIED BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRICS
June, 16 - 20, 2014 - Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy
Lecturers
Professor Michael JORDAN, Department of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science and Department of Statistics at the
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Professor Francois CARON, Department of Statistics, University
College Oxford, UK
The conference webpage is
>>>> www.mi.imati.cnr.it/conferences/abs14.html <<<<
Registration will start after January, 1st, 2014 and details on
programme and accommodations will be provided early next year.
The conference room allows only for a very limited number of
participants (max. 35).
Interested people are invited to contact the ABS14 Secretariat at
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The school will make use of lectures, practical sessions, software
demonstrations with Matlab/Octave, informal discussion sessions and
presentations of research projects by school participants. The slides
and background reading material will be distributed to the students
before the start of the course.
The topics covered by the lecturers will be:
- General introduction and motivation: Why Bayesian nonparametrics?
- Dirichlet process mixtures, Chinese restaurant process, stick-breaking
construction
- Computational methods for Dirichlet process mixtures
- Models beyond the Dirichlet process: Completely random measures, Pitman-Yor
and Beta-Bernoulli processes
- Applications to natural language processing
- Applications to network analysis
- Hierarchical Bayesian nonparametric models
- Applications to topic modeling
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