The Schedule

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Day 1 (August 26)

Room: ESB 5104

8:45 - 9:00

Welcome

Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Trevor Campbell, Philippe Gagnon, Liangliang Wang

9:00 - 9:45

Fast, Distributed Bayesian Inference for Everyone

Nikola Surjanovic

9:45 - 10:15

Keynote Talk 1: Revisiting the Gelman-Rubin Diagnostic

Dootika Vats

Break 10:15 - 10:45

10:45 - 11:15

Keynote Talk 2: A new variational family for Bayesian phylogenetics

Lloyd Elliott

11:15 - 11:45

Keynote Talk 3: A fast non-reversible MCMC scheme for Bayesian mixture models

Filippo Ascolani

Lunch (food provided to registered participants) 12:00 - 13:00

13:00 - 14:00

Open problems in simulation

Short contributions open to all participants

Coffee / Time for collaborative meetings 14:00 - 15:00

15:00 - 15:30

Keynote Talk 4: Distance-based modeling, posterior exploration and summarization of genealogical trees.

Julia A. Palacios

15:30 - 16:00

Keynote Talk 5: Building Faster And More Expressive BART Models

Sameer Deshpande

16:00 - 16:30

Keynote Talk 6: Monte Carlo Methods for Black Hole Astronomy

Paul Tiede

Reserved tables at Koerner's Pub (10-15 minutes walk from ESB; click here for location). 5pm

Day 2 (August 27)

Room: ESB 4192

9:00 - 9:20

Student talk 1: Exponential Convergence of CAVI for Bayesian PCA

Arghya Datta

9:20 - 9:40

Student talk 2: PhyClone: A Bayesian Method for Characterizing Cancer Evolution from Bulk Sequencing

Emilia Hurtado

9:40 - 10:00

Student talk 3: GPU-accelerated Bayesian inference for block-cave mining monitoring via muon tomography

Miguel Biron

10:00 - 10:20

Student talk 4: PANA-C: A parallel MCMC algorithm for annealed Monte Carlo sampling

Renny Doig

Break 10:20 - 10:50

10:50 - 11:20

Assessing the Convergence of MCMC when running many short chains

Charles Margossian

11:20 - 12:00

Evaluation of Monte Carlo methods: best practices, pitfalls and how to avoid them

Short contributions open to all participants

Lunch (food provided to registered participants) 12:00 - 13:00

13:00 - 16:00

Collaborative meetings

Open to all. Meeting rooms booked (all in ESB): 3125 (1-2:30); 4182 (1-5); 3163 (12-5); 3167 (12-5)

13:00 - 16:00

Hands-on introduction to MCMC development in Julia

Son Luu and Alexandre Bouchard-Côté

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