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ABS14 - 2014 Applied Bayesian Statistics School

APPLIED BAYESIAN NONPARAMETRICS

Villa del Grumello, Como, Italy

June, 16-20, 2014







Programme
 
                                                              
Monday June 16

· [13.00-          ] Registration
· [14.00-16.00]
Bayesian clustering, the Chinese restaurant process, Gibbs sampling
· [16.00-16.30] Break
· [16.30-17.30]
The Polya urn, the Hoppe urn, exchangeability
· [17.30-17.40] Break
· [17.40-19.00] Participants' Talks

                            
17:40-18:00  M. Sesia: "Belief Propagation on the Random Field Ising Model"

18:00-18:20  I. Bianchini: "A Bayesian nonparametric model for density and cluster estimation: the ε-NGG mixture model"

18:20-18:40
 S. Heaps: "Bayesian modelling of compositional heterogeneity in molecular phylogenetics"

18:40-19:00
 N. Pratanwanich: "Topic-based modeling on author contribution and author prediction"

· [19.10-21.00] Welcome buffet at Villa del Grumello


Tuesday June 17

· [09.00-10.30] Stick-breaking, the Dirichlet process, slice sampling
· [10.30-11.00] Break
· [11.00-12.30]
Pitman-Yor, power laws
· [12.30-14.00] Lunch at Villa del Grumello
· [14.00-16.00]
Completely random measures
· [16.00-16.15] Break
· [16.15-17.15] Participants' Talks

                            
16:15-16:35  G. Zanella: "Bayesian complementary clustering, MCMC and Anglo-Saxon placenames

16:35-16:55  A. van Rossum: "Are nonparametric Bayesian methods ready for point clouds?"

16:55-17:15
 A. Benavoli: "The Imprecise Dirichlet Process Statistical Package"


Wednesday June 18

· [09.00-10.30] Bayesian latent feature models: Beta-Bernoulli and Indian buffet processes
· [10.30-11.00] Break
· [11.00-13.00] BNP for statistical network modelling
· [13.00-          ] Free afternoon and evening


Thursday June 19

· [09.00-11.00] PRACTICAL: Clustering with Dirichlet process mixtures
· [11.00-11.30] Break
· [11.00-12.30] PRACTICAL: Inference on networks with BNP
· [12.30-14.00] Lunch at Villa del Grumello
· [14.00-15.30] Dependent Dirichlet processes and dynamic clustering
· [15.30-16.00] Break
· [16.00-18.00] More applications of BNP: natural language processing, rank data
·
[19.30-          ] Farewell dinner at Il Solito Posto - Via Lambertenghi 9


Friday June 20

· [09.00-11.00] The hierarchical Dirichlet process, applications to topic models
· [11.00-11.30] Break
· [11.30-13.00]
Applications to time series modeling