January 17-18, 2025
The University of Florida Department of Statistics’ Annual Winter Workshop will take place on January 17-18, 2025 (Friday-Saturday).
The workshop will be in-person in the Reitz Union Auditorium.
To register, go to: Statistics Winter Workshop: 2025
Bayesian computation is facing many challenges due to the increasing
complexity of the models and problems that need to be addressed and
the size of the data sets that are being collected. Subthemes of
the workshop are MCMC methods, for which theoretical underpinnings
are strong but which can struggle with massive data sets; and
variational Bayes methods, which can handle many kinds of massive
problems, but are not guaranteed to converge to correct values.
This workshop will bring together top researchers who work on both
methodological developments in Bayesian computation and applications
of Bayesian methods to major scientific problems. A major purpose
of the workshop is to discuss the many recent significant
developments in Bayesian computation and to identify important
problems and new research directions. All sessions are plenary.
Speakers
Yves Atchade, Boston University
Anirban Bhattacharya, Texas A&M University
Yuansi Chen, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Justin Domke, University of Massachusetts
Galin Jones, University of Minnesota
Lizhen Lin, University of Maryland
Sifan Liu, Flatiron Institute
Art Owen, Stanford University
Rajesh Ranganath, Courant Institute, New York University
Liyue Shen, University of Michigan
Brian Trippe, Stanford University
Guanyang Wang, Rutgers University
Program
Agenda: Tentative
8:30 AM Breakfast
9:00 AM Welcome (Mike Daniels)
9:15 AM
10:00 AM
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM
11:45 AM Lunch
1:00 PM
1:45 PM
2:30 PM Break
2:45 PM
3:30 PM Poster Session
9:00 AM Breakfast
9:30 AM
10:15 AM
11:00 AM Break
11:15 AM
Poster Presentations
The workshop will also include a poster session. Funding is expected to support a limited number of young researchers to attend the workshop and present their work at the poster session.
The organizing committee is soliciting applications from senior
graduate students (4th year or higher) and researchers who received
their Ph.D. in or after 2020.
Applications should include a curriculum vitae, an one-page abstract, and the names of two references, including a major professor who is supervising (or has supervised) the applicant’s research.
Applications should be emailed by November 12, 2024. Women and under-represented groups are encouraged to apply. Funding applications and workshop registration link are found on the Workshop web page. Emails should be sent to winterworkshop@stat.ufl.edu
Organizers/Scientific Committee
Hani Doss, Leo Duan, and Mike Daniels
Sponsors
