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WORKSHOP SCHEDULE




Sunday, 21st June


Registration: 12.00-14.25
Opening: 14.25-14.30

Tutorial 1: 14.30-16.00
Chair: Eugenio Regazzini (University of Pavia)
Speaker: Persi Diaconis (Stanford University)
Title: Partial exchangeability and priors for Markov chains

16.00-16.30 Coffee Break

Tutorial 2: 16.30-18.00
Chair: Eugenio Regazzini (University of Pavia)
Speaker: Nils Hjort (University of Oslo)
Title: Bayesian nonparametrics for survival and event history data

18.00-19.30 Welcome Cocktail



Monday, 22nd June


Tutorial 3: 9.15-10.45
Chair: Aad van der Vaart (VU University Amsterdam)
Speaker: Alan Gelfand (Duke University)
Title: Bayesian spatial and functional data analysis using gaussian processes

10.45-11.15: Coffee Break

Tutorial 4: 11.15-12.45
Chair: Aad van der Vaart (VU University Amsterdam)
Speaker: Michael I. Jordan (University of California Berkeley)
Title: Hierarchical nonparametric Bayes with applications

12.45-14.30: Lunch

Session 1: 14.30-16.00
Chair: Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge)
14.30-15.15
Speaker: Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick)
Title: Bayesian non-parametric analysis of diffusions
15.15-16.00
Speaker: Arnaud Doucet (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Tokyo)
Title: Particle Markov chain Monte Carlo methods for nonparametric Bayesian time series models

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break

Session 2: 16.30-18.00
Chair: Dipak Dey (University of Connecticut)
16.30-17.00
Speaker: Yongdai Kim (Seoul National University)
Title: Bayesian analysis for multi-state event history data
17.00-17.30
Speaker: Chris C. Holmes (University of Oxford)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric two-sample testing
17.30-18.00
Speaker: Peter Müller (University of Texas)
Title: A Bayesian semiparametric method for jointly modeling a primary endpoint and longitudinal measurements



Tuesday, 23rd June


Session 3: 9.15-10.45
Chair: Arnaud Doucet (The Institute of Statistical Mathematics Tokyo)
9.15-9.45
Speaker: Steven N. MacEachern (Ohio State University)
Title: Nonparametric Bayesian modelling and soft constraints
9.45-10.15
Speaker: Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Pompeu Fabra University)
Title: Posterior simulation for nonparametric hidden Markov models
10.15-10.45
Speaker: Subhashis Ghosal (North Carolina State University)
Title: Bayesian multi-scale smoothing of astronomical images using the Chinese restaurant process

10.45-11.15: Coffee Break

Session 4: 11.15-12.45
Chair: Giovanni Peccati (University of Paris X)
11.15-12.00
Speaker: Aad van der Vaart (VU University Amsterdam)
Title: On gaussian process priors
12.00-12.45
Speaker: Judith Rousseau (University of Paris Dauphine)
Title: Rates of convergence for the posterior distributions of mixtures of betas and adaptive nonparametric estimation of the density

12.45-14.30: Lunch

Session 5: 14.30-16.00
Chair: Chiara Sabatti (University of California Los Angeles)
14.30-15.15
Speaker: Peter Green (University of Bristol) & Natalia Bochkina (University of Edinburgh)
Title: Consistency of Bayesian estimators in SPECT and other inverse problems
15.15-16.00
Speaker: Eugenio Regazzini (University of Pavia)
Title: Bayesian consistency and classical form of the problem of inverse probabilities

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break

Session 6: 16.30-17.30
Chair: Gareth Roberts (University of Warwick)
16.30-17.00
Speaker: Mark Steel  (University of Warwick)
Title: Time-dependent stick-breaking processes
17.00-17.30
Speaker: Yee W. Teh  (University College London)
Title: The Mondrian process

Poster Session: 17.30-20.00
Presenters and poster titles are listed at the bottom
Refreshments will be served during the poster session



Wednesday, 24th June


Session 7: 9.15-10.45
Chair: Yongdai Kim (Seoul National University)
9.15-9.45
Speaker: Fernando Quintana (Pontifical Catholic University of Chile)
Title: Flexible univariate continuous distributions
9.45-10.15
Speaker: Lancelot F. James (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Title: Lamperti Type Laws
10.15-10.45
Speaker: Erik Sudderth (Brown University)
Title: Shared segmentation of natural scenes using dependent Pitman-Yor processes

10.45-11.15: Coffee Break

Session 8: 11.15-12.45
Chair: Albert Y. Lo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
11.15-12.00
Speaker: Zoubin Ghahramani (University of Cambridge)
Title: The Indian buffet process and extensions
12.00-12.45
Speaker: Francois Caron (INRIA Bordeaux)
Title: Random partitions on decomposable graphs

12.45-14.30: Lunch

Session 9: 14.30-16.00
Chair: Judith Rousseau (University of Paris Dauphine)
14.30-15.15
Speaker: Jaeyong Lee (Seoul National University)
Title: Sparse Bayesian regression with growing number of covariates
15.15-16.00
Speaker: Surya Tokdar (Duke University)
Title: Joint linear quantile regression: a semi-parametric Bayesian approach

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break

Session 10: 16.30-18.00
Chair: Maria De Iorio (Imperial College London)
16.30-17.00
Speaker: Timothy Hanson (University of Minnesota)
Title: Some classes of dependent tailfree processes and applications
17.00-17.30
Speaker: Luis E. Nieto-Barajas (ITAM Mexico)
Title: Rubbery Pólya tree
17.30-18.00
Speaker: Pietro Muliere  (Bocconi University)
Title: Superposition of beta processes

20.30: Social Dinner



Thursday, 25th June


Session 11: 9.15-10.45
Chair: Jaeyong Lee (Seoul National University)
9.15-9.45
Speaker: Jim Griffin (University of Kent)
Title: Slice sampling nonparametric models
9.45-10.15
Speaker: David Dunson (Duke University)
Title: Nonparametric Bayes local mixture models
10.15-10.45
Speaker: Maria De Iorio (Imperial College London)
Title: Bayesian semiparametric meta-analysis for genetic association studies

10.45-11.15: Coffee Break

Session 12: 11.15-12.45
Chair: Peter Green (University of Bristol)
11.15-12.00
Speaker: Albert Y. Lo (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology)
Title: Bayesian subset selection in regression models
12.00-12.45
Speaker: Michael D. Escobar (University of Toronto)
Title: Big alpha

12.45-14.30: Lunch

Session 13: 14.30-16.00
Chair: Francois Caron (INRIA Bordeaux)
14.30-15.15
Speaker: Dipak Dey (University of Connecticut)
Title: Semiparametric Bayesian estimation of random coefficients discrete choice models
15.15-16.00
Speaker: Alessandra Guglielmi (Polytechnic Milan)
Title: Nonparametric Bayesian mixture modeling for failure time data

16.00-16.30: Coffee Break

Session 14: 16.30-18.00
Chair: Surya Tokdar (Duke University)
16.30-17.00
Speaker: Peter Hoff (University of Washington)
Title: Generalized marginal likelihoods for semiparametric Bayesian inference
17.00-17.30
Speaker: Sonia Petrone (Bocconi University)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric regression with temporal constraints
17.30-18.00
Speaker: Pierpaolo De Blasi (University of Turin)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric estimation and consistency of mixed multinomial logit choice models



POSTER SESSION


Presenter: Isadora Antoniano Villalobos (University of Kent)
Title: Bayesian inference for diffusions based on exact simulation

Presenter: Raffaele Argiento (IMATI-CNR Milan)
Title: A simulation-based approach to full Bayesian inference for mixture densities under the normalized generalized gamma prior

Presenter: Eric Barat (CEA-LIST) & Mame Diarra Fall (L2S/SUPELEC) 
Title: Pitman-Yor Mixtures prior for nonparametric spatial emission tomography

Presenter: Anirban Bhattacharya (Duke University)
Title: Bayesian local mixtures of factor analyzers

Presenter: Abhishek Bhattacharya (Duke University)
Title: Nonparametric Bayesian density estimation on manifolds with applications to planar shapes

Presenter: Eunice Campiran Garcia (UNAM Mexico)
Title: How to use product partitions models to reflect the prior knowledge of the stratification in finite population sampling

Presenter: Alessandro Carta (University of Warwick)
Title: Modelling multi-output stochastic frontier using copulas

Presenter: Annalisa Cerquetti (Collegio Nuovo Pavia)
Title: On a class of Bayesian nonparametric priors derived by subordination of stable processes
 
Presenter: James M. Ciera (University of Padua)
Title: Fast approximate Bayesian functional mixed effects model

Presenter: José C.S. de Miranda (University of Sao Paulo)
Title: Proxy maximum probability estimation of Poisson intensities

Presenter: Chang Dorea (Universidade de Brasilia)
Title: On the robustness of Bayesian modelling of location and scale structures using heavy-tailed distributions

Presenter: Ilenia Epifani (Politecnico di Milano)
Title: Priors for vectors of survival functions

Presenter: Marian Farah (University of California Santa Cruz)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric modeling of cross-section vs. LET for the prediction of on-orbit upset rate

Presenter: Emily Fox (MIT)
Title: Sharing features among dynamical systems with beta processes

Presenter: Kassandra Fronczyk (University of California Santa Cruz)
Title: Nonparametric Bayesian regression for replicated categorical responses

Presenter: Dimitros Giannikis (Athens University of Economics and Business)
Title: Clustering of many financial time series using nonparametric Bayesian technics
 
Presenter: Dilan Görür (University College London)
Title: Efficient sequential Monte Carlo for inference on Kingman's coalescent

Presenter: Spyridon Hatjispyros & Theodoros Nicoleris (University of the Aegean)
Title: Dependent mixtures of Dirichlet processes

Presenter: Daniel Heinz (Carnegie Mellon University)
Title: Non-parametric hyper Markov priors

Presenter: Ricardo Henao (Technical University of Denmark)
Title: Robust processes for latent variables in dynamical factor models

Presenter: Gudmund Hermansen (University of Oslo)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric modelling of covariance functions, with application to time series and spatial statistics

Presenter: Zhaowei Hua (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Title: Semiparametric Bayes local additive models for longitudinal data
 
Presenter: Alejandro Jara (Universidad de Concepcion)
Title: A novel class of mixtures of multivariate Pólya trees

Presenter: Mark Jensen (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta)
Title: Bayesian semiparametric stochastic volatility modeling

Presenter: Maria Kalli (University of Kent)
Title: Mixtures of stick-breaking processes

Presenter: George Karabatsos (University of Illinois-Chicago)
Title: A Bayesian nonparametric causal model

Presenter: Dohyun Kim (Seoul National University)
Title: Bayesian subspace clustering with Indian Buffet process

Presenter: Gwangsu Kim (Seoul National University)
Title: The time varying survival analysis by Bayesian bootstrap

Presenter: Michalis Kolossiatis (University of Warwick)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric modelling of grouped data with an application to stochastic frontiers
 
Presenter: Willem Kruijer (University Paris Dauphine)
Title: Adaptive Bayesian density estimation with location-scale mixtures

Presenter: Heng Lian (Nanyang Technological University)
Title: Posterior convergence and model estimation in Bayesian change-point problems
 
Presenter: Claudio Macci (University of Rome Tor Vergata)
Title: Large deviations for Bayesian estimators in first-order autoregressive processes

Presenter: Juan-Carlos Martinez-Ovando (University of Kent)
Title: An alternative nonparametric time-series model
 
Presenter: Takashi Matsumoto (Waseda University)
Title: Dirichlet process EM algorithm for semi-supervised learning

Presenter: Andriy Norets (Princeton University)
Title: Bayesian modeling of joint and conditional distributions
 
Presenter: Debdeep Pati (Duke University)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric regression with an unknown predictor-dependent residual distribution

Presenter: Maria Joao Polidoro (Instituto Politecnico Porto)
Title: A Bayesian methodology for models adequacy
 
Presenter: Cecila Prosdocimi (Univeristy of Padua)
Title: Countable mixtures of Markov chains

Presenter: Sandra Ramos (ISEP)
Title: Semiparametric Bayesian approach to gene profile classification

Presenter: Eva Riccomagno (University of Genova)
Title: Causal analysis with chain event graphs

Presenter: Abel Rodriguez (University of California Santa Cruz)
Title: Nested partition models

Presenter: Carlos Erwin Rodriguez (University of Kent)
Title: Sampling the mixture normal model
 
Presenter: Daniel Roy (MIT)
Title: On the computability of de Finetti measures

Presenter: Matteo Ruggiero (University of Pavia)
Title: Gibbs sampling the two-parameter Poisson-Dirichlet process and its diffusion limit

Presenter: Catia Scricciolo (Bocconi University)
Title: Rates of convergence for Bayes and ML estimators of mixtures of exponential power densities

Presenter: Dario Spanň (University of Warwick)
Title: Genealogy and dual processes associated with time-dependent Dirichlet processes, and their polynomial eigenfunctions

Presenter: Matthew Taddy (University of Chicago)
Title: Conditional modeling for survival data
 
Presenter: Mahlet Tadesse (Georgetown University)
Title: Bayesian nonparametric model for integrating genomic data sets

Presenter: Takaaki Tokuda (Waseda University)
Title: Maximum a posteriori estimation for Dirichlet process language models

Presenter: Sinead Williamson (University of Cambridge)
Title: A sparse, infinite topic model based on the Indian Buffet process

Presenter: Fei Xiang (University of Kent)
Title: Bayesian consistency for regression model

Presenter: Oliver Zobay (University of Bristol)
Title: Mean field inference for the Dirichlet process mixture model