O'Bayes 03, June 15-20,
Aussois - France
Program
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Monday, June 16
9:00-10:30, Session 1 : Non-parametric Bayes (I)
S. Walker, University of Bath
(UK), Sample size dependent nonparametric priors
Discussant: N. Hjort
L. Zhao, University of Pennsylvania
(USA), Bayesian Approaches in Nonparametric Estimation Problems
Discussant: A. Philippe
11:00-12:30, Session 2 : Modelling (I)
D. Sun, University of Missouri-Columbia
(USA), Partial Informative Normal and Spline Smoothing
Discussant: S. Bayarri
O. Papaspiliopoulos,
University of Lancaster (UK), Bayesian inference for diffusions
Discussant: J.A. Cano
17:30-19:00, Session 3 : Model selection (I)
J.K. Ghosh, Indian Statistical
Institute and Purdue University (USA), Regression at Optimal Rate via Bayesian
Model Selection
Discussant: M. Clyde
L. Birge, Universite Paris 6 (France),
Model selection : an alternative to penalized maximum likelihood estimators
Discussant: B. Liseo
21:00-23:00, Poster session (I)
Tuesday, June 17
9:00-10:30, Session 4 : Non-parametric Bayes (II)
S. Petrone, Universita
Bocconi Milano (Italie), Role of mixtures in nonparametrics
Discussant: C.P. Robert
P. Hoff, University of Washington
(USA), Nonparametric pooling of exchangeable hierarchical data
Discussant: J.O. Berger
11:00-12:30, Session 5 : Asymptotics
L. Brown, Wharton (USA), title
to be announced
Discussant: J. Rousseau
A. Van der Vaart, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
(The Netherlands), Asymptotics for posteriors on infinite-dimensional
models
Discussant: N. Reid
17:30-19:00, Session 6 : Prior construction (I)
G. Consonni, Universita di Pavia
(Italy), Prior distributions for intervention DAG models
Discussant: J. Mortera
E. Moreno, Universidad de Granada (Spain),
Objective Bayesian analysis of contingency tables
Discussant: G. Celeux
21:00-23:00, Poster session (II)
Wenesday, June 18
9:00-10:30, Session 7 : Model selection (II)
J. Bernardo, Universitat Valencia
(Spain), A Bayesian reference approach to variable selection
Discussant: R.M.B. Paulo
C. Holmes, Imperial College London
(UK), Predictive model averaging for statistical pattern recognition
Discussant: E. George
11:00-12:30, Session 8 : Prior construction (II)
Don Fraser, U. Toronto, Requirements
and Resolutions for Default Priors
Discussant: A. Guglielmi
Victor De Oliveira, U. Arkansas, Objective
Bayesian Analysis of Some Models for Correlated Data
Discussant: S. Fienberg
17:30-19:00, Session 9 : Modelling (II)
E. Brown, University of Washington
(USA), Flexible Approach to Bayesian Survival Models
Discussant: M. Barbieri
Jaeyong Lee, Penn State University
(USA), Bayesian R-Estimation
Discussant: M. Daniels
Thursday, June 19
9:00-10:30, Session 10 : Computational issues
Ch. Andrieu, University
of Bristol (UK), Adaptive MCMC algorithms
Discussant: S. Sahu
J. Hobert, University of Florida
(USA), Improper posteriors
Discussant: A. Doucet
11:00-12:30, Session 11 : Modelling (III)
F. DeSantis, Universita di
Roma 1 (Italy), On partially objective Bayes methods for sample
size determination and inference
Discussant: M. Ghosh
P. Müller, University of
Texas, Austin (USA), A Bayesian Mixture Model for Differential Gene Expression
Discussant: K. Mengersen
14:00-15:30, Session 12 : Model selection (III)
N. Chopin, INSEE and CREST, Paris (France),
Sequential priors for hidden Markov models
Discussant: M. Kessler
B. Silverman, University
of Bristol (UK), Needles and hay in haystacks, Empirical Bayes estimates of
possibly sparse sequences
Discussant: R. Kohn