Invited Sessions
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| Title: Savage Award Session | |
| Organizer: | ISBA |
| Speakers: | Gun Ho Jang (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| Kaisey Mandel (Imperial College London, UK) | |
| Juan Carlos Martinez Ovando (Banco de Mexico, Mexico) | |
| Fabian Scheipl (LMU Munich, Germany) | |
| Title: Model Selection | |
| Organizer: | Susie Bayarri (University of Valencia, Spain) |
| Speakers: | Ed George (University of Pennsylvania) |
| James Scott (University of Texas at Austin) | |
| Susie Bayarri (University of Valencia, Spain) | |
| Discussant: | Gonzalo Garcia-Donato (University of Castilla-La Mancha) |
| Title: Time Series Analysis and Finance | |
| Organizer: | Siddhartha Chib (Washington University in St. Louis, USA) |
| Speakers: | Antonietta Mira (University of Lugano, Switzerland) |
| Jouchi Nakajima & Mike West (Duke University, USA) | |
| Yasuhiro Omori (University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Discussant: | Teruo Nakatsuma (Keio University, Japan) |
| Title: Bayesian analysis of inverse problems | |
| Organizer: | Colin Fox (University of Otago, New Zealand) |
| Speakers: | Heikki Haario (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland) |
| Radu Herbei (Ohio State University, USA) | |
| Colin Fox (University of Otago, New Zealand) | |
| Discussant: | J Andres Christen (CIMAT, Mexico) |
| Title: Spatial State-Space Models | |
| Organizer: | Dani Gamerman (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) |
| Speakers: | Bruno Sanso (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) |
| Ioanna Manolopoulou (Duke University, USA) | |
| Christopher Strickland (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) | |
| Discussant: | Sudipto Banerjee (University of Minnesota, USA) |
| Title: Bayesian Econometrics | |
| Organizer: | John Geweke (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) |
| Speakers: | Sylvia Fruehwirth Schnatter (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) |
| Andriy Norets (Princeton University, USA) | |
| John Geweke (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) | |
| Discussant: | Robert Kohn (University of New South Wales, Australia) |
| Title: Adaptive Bayesian Function Estimation | |
| Organizer: | Subhashis Ghosal (North Carolina State University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Eduard Belitser (Technical University of Eindhoven, Netherlands) |
| Surya Tokdar (Duke University, USA) | |
| Heng Lian (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore) | |
| Discussant: | Subhashis Ghosal (North Carolina State University, USA) |
| Title: Partial Identification and Causal Inference: What can Bayes bring to the Table? | |
| Organizer: | Paul Gustafson (University of British Columbia, USA) |
| Speakers: | Toru Kitagawa (UCL, UK) |
| Chenguang Wang (Johns Hopkins University, USA) | |
| Paul Gustafson (University of British Columbia, USA) | |
| Discussant: | David Stephens (Mc Gill University, Canada) |
| Title: Matrix, Array and Relational Data | |
| Organizer: | Peter Hoff (University of Washington, USA) |
| Speakers: | Tyler McCormick (University of Washington, USA) |
| Mark Handcock (University of California Los Angeles, USA) | |
| Simon Lunagomez (Harvard University, USA) | |
| Discussant: | Abel Rodriguez (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| Title: Bayesian methods in Biostatistics | |
| Organizer: | Valen E. Johnson (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) |
| Speakers: | Andrea Riebler (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| Peter Mueller (University of Texas Austin, USA) | |
| David Rossell (IRB Barcelona, Spain) | |
| Discussant: | Donatello Telesca (University of California Los Angeles, USA) |
| Title: Applications of particle filtering and sequential updating | |
| Organizer: | Robert Kohn (University of New South Wales, Australia) |
| Speakers: | Julien Cornebise (UK) |
| Scott Sisson (University of New South Wales, Australia) | |
| Robert Kohn (University of New South Wales, Australia) | |
| Discussant: | Hedibert Lopes (University of Chicago, USA) |
| Title: Predictive Inference and Bayes Methods | |
| Organizer: | Fumiyasu Komaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) |
| Speakers: | Bertrand Clarke (University of Miami, USA) |
| Matthew Parry (University of Otago, New Zealand) | |
| Fumiyasu Komaki (University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Discussant: | Xinyi Xu (Ohio State University, USA) |
| Title: Advances in Gaussian Processes | |
| Organizer: | Herbie Lee (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) |
| Speakers: | Waley Liang (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) |
| Cari Kaufman (University of California Berkeley, USA) | |
| Herbie Lee (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) | |
| Discussant: | Kate Calder (Ohio State University, USA) |
| Title: On the uses of random probabilities in Bayesian inference | |
| Organizer: | Antonio Lijoi (University of Pavia, Italy) |
| Speakers: | Peter Orbanz (University of Cambrdige, UK) |
| Ramses Mena (IIMAS-UNAM, Mexico) | |
| Antonio Lijoi (University of Pavia, Italy) | |
| Discussant: | Julyan Arbel (University of Paris Dauphine, France) |
| Title: S'Bayes: constructing and using subjective priors for Bayesain modelling | |
| Organizer: | Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) |
| Speakers: | Michael Goldstein (University of Durham, UK) |
| Sama Low Choy (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) | |
| Jeff Gill (Washington University St. Louis, USA) | |
| Discussant: | Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) |
| Title: Nonparametric Bayes Applications in Biostatistics | |
| Organizer: | Luis E. Nieto-Barajas (ITAM, Mexico) |
| Speakers: | Michele Guindani (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) |
| Lorenzo Trippa (Harvard University, USA) | |
| Luis E. Nieto-Barajas (ITAM, Mexico) | |
| Discussant: | Sujit Ghosh (North Carolina State University) |
| Title: Auxiliary variable and particle MCMC methods | |
| Organizer: | Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (University Pompeu Fabra, Spain) |
| Speakers: | Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE, France) |
| Anthony Lee (University of Warwick, UK) | |
| Pierre Jacob (Université Paris-Dauphine, France) | |
| Discussant: | Arnaud Doucet (University of British Columbia, Canada) |
| Title: Problem-driven developments in Bayesian Nonparametrics | |
| Organizer: | Sonia Petrone (Bocconi University, Italy) |
| Speakers: | Yee Whye Teh (UCL, UK) |
| Sergio Bacallado (Stanford University, USA) | |
| Sonia Petrone (Bocconi University, Italy) | |
| Discussant: | Raffaele Argiento (CNR-IMATI Milan, Italy) |
| Title: Topics on Bayesian Statistics | |
| Organizer: | Raquel Prado (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) |
| Speakers: | Valen E. Johnson (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) |
| Michael J. Daniels (University of Florida, USA) | |
| Hans R. Kuensch (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) | |
| Discussant: | Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University, USA) |
| Title: Being Simultaneously Bayesian And Frequentist | |
| Organizer: | Kenneth Rice (University of Washington, USA) |
| Speakers: | Thomas Lumley (University of Auckland, New Zealand) |
| Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan, USA) | |
| Kenneth Rice (University of Washington, USA) | |
| Discussant: | David Stephens (Mc Gill University, Canada) |
| Title: Bayesian analysis of network data: from network determination to network modeling | |
| Organizer: | Abel Rodriguez (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) |
| Speakers: | Veera Baladandayuthapani (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center) |
| Natesh Pillai (Harvard University, USA) | |
| Abel Rodriguez (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) | |
| Discussant: | Tyler McCormick (University of Washington) |
| Title: Bayesian semi-parametric analysis: theory | |
| Organizer: | Judith Rousseau (University of Paris Dauphine, France) |
| Speakers: | Harry van Zanten (Technical University Eindhoven, Netherlands) |
| Ismael Castillo (University of Paris VI, France) | |
| Pierpaolo De Blasi (University of Torino, Italy) | |
| Discussant: | Judith Rousseau (University of Paris Dauphine, France) |






