Special Topic Sessions
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| Title: Bayesian Econometrics III | |
| Organizer: | Tomohiro Ando (Keio University, Japan) |
| Speakers: | Tomohiro Ando (Keio University, Japan) |
| Toshiaki Watanabe (Hitotsubashi University, Japan) | |
| Nalan Basturk (Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands) | |
| Taeryon Choi (Korea University, Korea) | |
| Title:Bayesian models for high-dimensional complex-structured data | |
| Organizer: | Veera Baladandayuthapani (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) |
| Speakers: | Philip Brown (University of Kent, UK) |
| Marco Ferreira (University of Missouri, USA) | |
| Jeffrey S. Morris (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) | |
| Sudipto Banerjee (University of Minnesota, USA) | |
| Title:Bayesian Empirical Likelihood | |
| Organizer: | Sanjay Chaudhuri (National University of Singapore) |
| Speakers: | Nicole Lazar (University of Georgia, USA) |
| Malay Ghosh (University of Florida, USA) | |
| Sanjib Basu (Northern Illinois University, USA) | |
| Sanjay Chaudhuri (National University of Singapore) | |
| Title:Bayesian Econometrics IV | |
| Organizer: | Cathy Chen (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) |
| Speakers: | Richard Gerlach (University of Sydney, Australia) |
| Teruo Nakatsuma (Keio University, Japan) | |
| Catherine Forbes (Monash University, Australia) | |
| Cathy Chen (Feng Chia University, Taiwan) | |
| Title:Bayesian spatio-temporal disease mapping: new frontiers | |
| Organizer: | Susanna Cramb (Cancer Council Queensland and QUT, Australia) |
| Speakers: | Nicole White (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) |
| Susanna Cramb (Cancer Council Queensland and QUT, Australia) | |
| Guangquan Li (Imperial College, UK) | |
| Marian Farah (MRC Biostatstics Unit, Cambridge, UK) | |
| Title:Beyond MCMC Methods in Bayesian Inference | |
| Organizer: | Paul Damien (University of Texas Austin, USA) |
| Speakers: | Michael Braun (MIT, USA) |
| Christophe Andrieu (University of Bristol, UK) | |
| Jon Stroud (George Washington University, USA) | |
| Maria Kalli (University of Kent, UK) | |
| Title:Bayesian Applications | |
| Organizer: | David Draper (University of California, Santa Cruz) |
| Speakers: | Carlos Carvalho (University of Texas Austin, USA) |
| David Draper (University of California, Santa Cruz) | |
| Sylvia Richardson (Imperial College London) | |
| Raquel Prado (University of California, Santa Cruz) | |
| Title:Adaptive Monte Carlo | |
| Organizer: | Nando de Freitas (University of British Columbia, Canada), Christophe Andrieu, (University of Bristol, UK) & Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford, UK) |
| Speakers: | Gersende Fort (LTCI, CNRS & Telecom ParisTech, France) |
| Matti Vihola (University of Jyväskylä, Finland) | |
| Ruslan Salakhutdinov (University of Toronto, Canada) | |
| Ziyu Wang (University of British Columbia and D-Wave Systems, Inc., Canada) | |
| Title:Applied Bayesian Econometrics | |
| Organizer: | Sylvia Fruehwirth-Schnatter (Vienna University of Economics and Business, Austria) |
| Speakers: | Hedibert Lopes (University of Chicago, USA) |
| Mike Smith (University of Melbourne, Australia) | |
| Mattias Villani (Linköping University, Sweden) | |
| Helga Wagner (University Linz, Austria) | |
| Title:Recent Advances in Bayesian Variable Selection | |
| Organizer: | Joyee Ghosh (University of Iowa, USA) |
| Speakers: | Chris Hans (Ohio State University, USA) |
| Mahlet Tadesse (Georgetown University, USA) | |
| Scotland Leman (Virginia Tech, USA) | |
| Joyee Ghosh (University of Iowa, USA) | |
| Title:Bayesian analysis of astronomical data | |
| Organizer: | Joseph M. Hilbe (Arizona State University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Roberto Trotta (Imperial College London, UK) |
| Ashish Mahabal (California Institute of Technology, USA) | |
| Ninan Sajeeth Philip (Mahatma Gandhi University, Kerala, India) | |
| Radu S. Stoica (Universite Lille 1, France), Vincent Martinez (University of Valencia, Spain) & Enn Saar (Tartu Observatory, Estonia) | |
| Title:Beta Processes: Extensions and Applications | |
| Organizer: | Nils Lid Hjort (University of Oslo, Norway) |
| Speakers: | Yongdai Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) |
| Sinead Williamson (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) | |
| Tamara Broderick (University of California Berkeley, USA) | |
| Nils Lid Hjort (University of Oslo, Norway) | |
| Title:Advances in honest Monte Carlo | |
| Organizer: | Mark Huber (Claremont McKenna College, USA) |
| Speakers: | James Flegal (University of California Riverside, USA) |
| Mark Huber (Claremont McKenna College, USA) | |
| Galin Jones (University of Minnesota, USA) | |
| Alexandros Beskos (University College London, UK) | |
| Title:Hierarchies of Bayesian Nonparametric Processes | |
| Organizer: | Lancelot F. James (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) |
| Speakers: | Emily Fox (University of Pennsylvania, USA) |
| Dohyun Kim (Seoul National University, Korea) | |
| Stefano Favaro (University of Torino, Italy) | |
| Frank Wood (Columbia University, USA) | |
| Title:Bayesian methods for Spatial Statistics | |
| Organizer: | Mikyoung Jun (Texas A&M University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Murali Haran (Penn State University, USA) |
| Huiyan Sang (Texas A&M University, USA) | |
| Gabriel Huerta (Indiana University, USA) | |
| Hongxia Yang (IBM) | |
| Title:Bayesian Econometrics II | |
| Organizer: | Roberto Leon-Gonzalez (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan) |
| Speakers: | Liana Jacobi (University of Melbourne, USA) |
| Rodney Strachan (Australian National University, Australia) | |
| Roberto Leon-Gonzalez (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan) | |
| Joshua Chan (Australian National University, Australia) | |
| Title:Recent advances in Bayesian causal inference | |
| Organizer: | Fan Li (Duke University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Fabrizia Mealli (University of Firenze, Italy) |
| Fan Li (Duke University, USA) | |
| Michael R. Elliott (University of Michigan, USA) | |
| Roee Gutman (Brown University, USA) | |
| Title:Optimal Bayesian Experimental Design | |
| Organizer: | Thomas J. Loredo (Cornell University, USA) & Youssef M. Marzouk (MIT, USA) |
| Speakers: | Woojae Kim (Ohio State University, USA) |
| Xun Huan (MIT, USA) | |
| Satoshi Morita (Yokohama City University, Japan) | |
| Antti Solonen (Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland) | |
| Title:Bayesian modeling and its applications in social science | |
| Organizer: | Jun Lu (American University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Dongchu Sun (University of Missouri, USA) |
| Geoff Nicholls (University of Oxford) | |
| Chong He (University of Missouri, USA) | |
| Jun Lu (American University, USA) | |
| Title:Bayesian Methods in Biological, Environmental and Ecological Systems | |
| Organizer: | Debashis Mondal (University of Chicago, USA) |
| Speakers: | Donatello Telesca (University of California Los Angeles, USA) |
| Saman Muthukumarana (University of Manitoba, Canada) | |
| Veronica J. Berrocal (University of Michigan, USA) | |
| Debashis Mondal (University of Chicago, USA) | |
| Title:Case studies of Bayesian Success Stories: Babies, Trials and Ratings | |
| Organizer: | Peter Mueller (University of Texas Austin, USA) |
| Speakers: | Suchi Saria (Harvard University & Johns Hopkins University, USA) |
| Brad Carlin (University of Minnesota, USA) | |
| Yuan Ji (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) | |
| Mark Glickman (Boston University, USA) | |
| Title:Bayesian Model Assessment | |
| Organizer: | Joris Mulder (Tilburg University, Netherlands) |
| Speakers: | Merlise Clyde (Duke University, USA) |
| Laura Hatfield (Harvard Univesity, USA) | |
| Gonzalo Garcia-Donato (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain) | |
| Joris Mulder (Tilburg University, Netherlands) | |
| Title:Applications of Non- and Semi-parametric Bayesian Methods | |
| Organizer: | Fernando Quintana (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) |
| Speakers: | Raffaele Argiento (CNR-IMATI Milan, Italy) |
| Jim Griffin (University of Kent, UK) | |
| Athanasios Kottas (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) | |
| Fernando Quintana (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) | |
| Title:Bayesian inference in science: the pursuit of a synergy | |
| Organizer: | Fabio Rigat (University of Warwick, UK & Novartis) |
| Speakers: | Leonhard Held (University of Zurich, Switzerland) |
| Jonathan Forster (University of Southampton, UK) | |
| Ricardo Lemos (NOAA/NMFS Environmental Research Division, USA) | |
| Fabio Rigat (University of Warwick, UK & Novartis) | |
| Title:Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) : Likelihood-free Bayesian inference I | |
| Organizer: | Christian Robert (Université Paris Dauphine, France) & Scott Sisson (University of New South Wales, Australia) |
| Speakers: | Michael Stumpf (University College London, UK) |
| Dennis Prangle (Lancaster University, UK) | |
| Chris Drovandi (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) | |
| Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine, France) | |
| Title:Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) : Likelihood-free Bayesian inference II | |
| Organizer: | Christian Robert (Université Paris Dauphine, France) & Scott Sisson (University of New South Wales, Australia) |
| Speakers: | David Nott (National University of Singapore, Singapore) |
| Michael Blum (CNRS Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble, France) | |
| Jean-Michel Marin (Université Montpellier 2, France) | |
| Oliver Ratmann (Duke University, USA) | |
| Title:Parallel processing in Bayesian computing | |
| Organizer: | Christian Robert (Université Paris Dauphine, France) & Marc Suchard (University of California Los Angeles, USA) |
| Speakers: | Marc Suchard (University of California Los Angeles, USA) |
| Jarad Niemi (Iowa State University, USA) | |
| Steve Scott (Google, USA) | |
| Kenichiro McAlinn (Keio University, Japan & Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris, France) | |
| Title:Bayesian approaches to design and model comparison | |
| Organizer: | Marina Savelieva (Novartis Pharma, Switzerland) |
| Speakers: | James McGree (Queensland University of Technology, Australia) |
| Matt Taddy (University of Chicago, USA) | |
| Björn Bornkamp (Novartis Pharma, Switzerland) | |
| Steven MacEachern (Ohio State University, USA) | |
| Title:Bayesian Analysis of Protein Structure and Evolution | |
| Organizer: | Scott Schmidler (Duke University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Scott Schmidler (Duke University, USA) |
| Chieh-Hsi Wu (University of Auckland, New Zealand) | |
| Irina Czogiel (Max Planck Institute, Germany) | |
| Chris Challis (Duke University, USA) | |
| Title:Bayesian Methods in Reliability | |
| Organizer: | Refik Soyer (George Washington University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Thomas A. Mazzuchi (George Washington University, USA) |
| Refik Soyer (George Washington University, USA) | |
| J. Andres Christen (CIMAT, Mexico) | |
| Simon P. Wilson (Trinity College, Ireland) | |
| Title:Bayes Modeling in Marketing | |
| Organizer: | Nobuhiko Terui (Tohoku University) |
| Speakers: | Greg Allenby(Ohio State University, USA) |
| Makoto Abe (University of Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Fumiyo Kondo(Tsukuba University Japan) | |
| Nobuhiko Terui (Tohoku University, Japan) | |
| Title:Bayesian Graphical & Factor Models: Structure, Sparsity & Dimension | |
| Organizer: | Mike West (Duke University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Ryo Yoshida (Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan) |
| Andrew Cron (Duke University, USA) | |
| Hao Wang (University of South Carolina, USA) | |
| Richard Hahn (University of Chicago, USA) | |
| Title:Scaling Bayesian computation to handle Big Data: Methods and feasibility | |
| Organizer: | Dawn Woodard (Cornell University, USA) |
| Speakers: | Michael Jordan (University of California Berkeley, USA) |
| Samuel Kou (Harvard University, USA) | |
| Yves Atchade (University of Michigan, USA) | |
| Dawn Woodard (Cornell University, USA) | |
| Title:High dimensional graphical models in genomics | |
| Organizer: | Christopher Yau (University of Oxford, USA) & Leonardo Bottolo (Imperial College London, UK) |
| Speakers: | Francesco Stingo (University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, USA) |
| Silvia Liverani (University of Bristol, UK) | |
| Alex Lenkoski (University of Heidelberg, Germany) | |
| Leonardo Bottolo (Imperial College London, UK) | |
