Accelerated statistical inference for the sciences

The workshop's goal is to bring together researchers from different disciplines that are using and developing approaches to speed up MCMC/ABC inference approaches.

It took place online during the mornings of September 6th and 7th 2021.

The afternoons were kept free to facilitate further discussions, reading, and meetings in smaller groups.

Confirmed speakers:

• Macarena Amaya (UniL)

• Prof. Brice-Olivier Demory (UniBE)

• Lea Friedli (UniL)

• Athénaïs Gautier (UniBE)

• Shiran Lévy (UniL)

• Eliane Maalouf (UniNE)

• Prof. Grégoire Mariéthoz (UNIL)

• Juan Pablo Madrigal Cianci (EPFL)

• Dr Brett Morris (UniBE)

• Prof. Fabio Nobile (EPFL)

• Prof. Chris Oates (Newcastle)

• Dr Julien Riou (UniBE)

• Cédric Travelletti (UniBE)

• Prof. Richard Wilkinson (Nottingham)

Program

First morning (Monday September 6th 2021)

• 9:00: Opening

• 9:15: Fabio Nobile

• 10:00: PhD flash presentations part I

• 10:30: break

• 11:00: Richard Wilkinson part I

• 11:45: Julien Riou (short presentation around inference in epidemiology)

• 12:00: Brice-Olivier Demory (short presentation around inference in astrophysics)

• 12:15-12:30: discussions

Second morning (Tuesday September 7th 2021)

• 9:00: Grégoire Mariéthoz

• 9:30: Brett Morris

• 10:00: PhD flash presentations part II

• 10:30: break

• 11:00: Richard Wilkinson part II

• 11:45: Chris Oates

• 12:15-12:30: discussions