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Tutorials - June 3
Contributed talks - in the late afternoons
Poster sessions - in the evenings June 3 through 7


Contributed Talks


Thursday, June 3, 2010

Session 1
Stochastic models and stochastic Monte Carlo
  • Paul Blackwell (University of Sheffield)
    • Layer counting for dating ice cores: A Bayesian model-based approach
  • Joaquin Miguez (Universidad Carlos III)
    • Solving a class of global optimization problems by way of Bayesian estimation methods
  • Flavio Goncalves (University of Warwick)
    • Exact Simulation and Bayesian Inference for Jump-Diffusion Processes
  • Natesh Pillai (University of Warwick)
    • MCMC in high dimensions: A New Perspective
Break

Session 2
Biostatistics
  • Marina Savelieva (Novartis)
    • Bayesian approach to Population PKPD Modelling: advantages and drawbacks
  • Milovan Krnjajic (National University of Ireland)
    • Bayesian dynamic models for electronic medical record data
  • Sara Geneletti (London School of Economics)
    • Uncovering selection bias in case­control studies using Bayesian poststratificatio
  • David Draper (University of California, Santa Cruz)
    • A Bayesian Decision-Theoretic Alternative to Standard Multiple-Comparisons Adjustments in Clinical Trials

Friday, June 4, 2010
Session 1
Bioinformatics
  • Paola Rancoita (Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale)
    • Bayesian Integrated Genomics
  • Shane Jensen (The Wharton School)
    • Bayesian Modeling of the  Evolutionary Escape Response of HIV
  • Christopher Yau (University of Oxford)
    • Decision theoretic Bayesian nonparametric inference for the molecular characterisation and stratification of colorectal cancer using genome-wide microarrays
  • Alan Lenarcic (Harvard University)
    • A Bayesian Application of Lasso in Covariance Network Selection
Break

Session 2
Jose Bernardo Honorary session (decision theory and prior specification)
  • Shakir Mohamed (University of Cambridge)
    • Sparse Exponential Family Latent Variable Models
  • Chris Hans (The Ohio State University)
    • Penalized Regression  via  Orthant Normal Priors
  • Richard Hahn (Duke University)
    • Sparse Partial Factor Regression
  • Simon Lacoste-Julien (University of Cambridge)
    • Approximate inference for the loss-calibrated Bayesian

Saturday, June 5, 2010
Session 1
Regression Models
  • Sujit Ghosh (North Carolina State University)
    • Bayesian Shape Restricted Regression with Multivariate Bernstein Polynomials
  • Alicia Quiros (Rey Juan Carlos University)
    • Assessing the fit of regression models for multiple imputation
  • Anirban Bhattacharya (Duke University)
    • Sparse Bayesian infinite factor models
  • William Astle (Imperial College)
    • A Bayesian model of NMR spectra for the deconvolution and quantification of metabolites in complex biological mixtures
Break

Session 2
Statistical Computing
  • Chris Holmes (University of Oxford)
    • Bayesian Computation on Graphics Cards
  • Andrew Parnell (University College Dublin)
    • Fast joint posterior modelling through marginal posterior mixtures
  • Fabian Wauthier (University of California, Berkeley)
    • Sparse Process Classification via the Gaussian copula
  • Jing Wang (University of Michigan)
    • Approximate MCMC Simulation from Doubly-intractable
      Distributions

Monday, June 7, 2010
Session 1
Spatial and Temporal Modeling
  • Debdeep Pati (Duke University)
    • Bayesian geostatistical modeling with informative sampling locations
  • Chris Paciorek (University of California, Berkeley)
    • Flexible spatial latent variable modeling for combining information
      sources while accounting for systematic errors in proxies
  • Carlos Almeida (Technische Universitaet Muenchen)
    • Bayesian inference for time-varying pair-copula constructions
  • Ioanna Manolopoulou (Duke University)
    • Inferences on dynamic point processes using mixture models of spatio-temporal intensity functions
Break

Session 2
Nonparametrics
  • Yee Whye Teh (University College London)
    • Hierarchical Bayesian Nonparametric Models for Language and Text
  • Subharup Guha (University of Missouri)
    • Posterior Simulation in Countable Mixture Models  for Large Datasets
  • Michalis Kolossiatis (Cyprus University of Technology)
    • Modelling Via Normalisation for Bayesian Nonparametric Inference
  • Ferenc Huszar (University of Cambridge)
    • Bayesian kernel machines: the third way of going nonparametric

Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Session 1
Graphical and network models
  • Edo Airoldi (Harvard University)
    • Representation and Bayesian analysis of valued networks
  • Geoff Nicholls (Oxford University)
    • Bayesian inference for a partial order from random linear extensions
  • Ricardo Henao (Technical University of Denmark and University of Copenhagen)
    • Learning Structure in Directed Acyclic Graphs with Latent Variables
  • Tyler McCormick (Columbia University)
    • Latent Structure Models for Social Networks using Aggregated Relational Data
Break

Session 2
Savage award finalists
  • Emily Fox (Duke University)
    • Bayesian Nonparametric Time Series Models for Complex Dynamical  Phenomena
  • Matt Taddy (Chicago Booth)
    • Dynamic Point Process Modeling with a DDP
  • Ryan Adams (University of Toronto)
    • Generative Modeling of Probability Densities with Gaussian Processes  
  • James Scott (University of Texas at Austin)
    • Robust Bayesian shrinkage in sparse signal-extraction problems




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