All lectures will be held on the fourth floor of the Informatics Forum. The lectures in room 4.31/33, and breaks in mini-forum 2 (room 4.40), except when explicitly noted otherwise.
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Welcome, tea and coffee in 2.32 (Mini Forum 1, on level 2) |
| 14:00 – 14:10 | Opening remarks |
| 14:10 – 15:20 | Improving prediction from Dirichlet process mixtures via
enrichment abstract
Sonia Petrone (Università Bocconi, Italy) |
| 15:20 – 15:45 | A Bayesian semi-parametric approach for the analysis of
T-cell receptor diversity
abstract Nuno Sepulveda (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and University of Lisbon, Portugal) |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Tea break |
| 16:15 – 17:25 | Bayes in the Age of Big Data
abstract Max Welling (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands) |
| 17:25 – 17:50 | Associative embeddings for large-scale knowledge transfer with self-
assessment
abstract Vittorio Ferrari (University of Edinburgh) |
| 17:50 – 19:30 | Poster reception: list of posters |
| 9:15 – 9:40 | Bayesian modelling to estimate genetic and
epidemiological parameters from field disease data
abstract Mintu Nath (Biomathematics and Statistics Scotland) |
| 9:40 – 10:05 | Model-based analysis of time series: stochastic gene
expression as a case study
abstract Nacho Molina (University of Edinburgh) |
| 10:05 – 10:30 | Bayes factors for linear mixed effect models
abstract Richard D. Morey (University of Groningen, Netherlands) |
| 10:30 – 10:55 | On the use of informative priors to maintain geological realism in
petroleum reservoir prediction modelling
abstract Vasily Demyanov (Heriot-Watt Uniersity) |
| 10:55 – 11:30 | Tea break |
| 11:30 – 12:40 | Probabilistic programming - the future of Bayesian inference?
abstract John Winn (Microsoft Research Ltd) |
| 12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch |
| 14:00 – 15:10 | Wildfires in South Africa; Cherry Trees in Japan
abstract Alan Gelfand (Duke University, USA) |
| 15:10 – 15:20 | Closing remarks |