SIPE'10 Workshop timetable
January 18-20, 2010, University of Otago, New Zealand


Mon 18
Tue 19
Wed 20
8:30
Make yourself a decent espresso and grab a muffin in Tim's lab -- room 533
 
9:00
 
Al Parker
Accelerating Gibbs sampling using matrix decompositions 
Tiangang Cui
Adaptive enhanced error models in delayed acceptance MCMC
Colin Fox
Conjugate direction sampling
 
 
9:00
 

10:00

 
Andres Christen
Fast automatic sampling from posterior distributions using exact and approximate versions of the likelihood
Chris Fonnesbeck
PyMC
 
 
Daniel Watzenig
 
 
 
 
10:00
 
 
11:00
coffee/tea break
11:00
 
11:30
 
 
Ville Kolehmainen
Approximation errors and model reduction in diffuse optical tomography
Heikke Haario
MCMC for (too) large models
 
 
Jari Kaipio
Nonstationary inversion and reduced order flow modelling
 
 
11:30
 
 
12:30
 
John Bardsley
 Computational and statistical methods for positron emission tomography
lunch( own arrangenments)
 
lunch( own arrangenments)
 
12:30
 
1:30
lunch( own arrangenments)
2:30

Taeiri Gorge railway trip
2:30
5:30
Conference dinner
5:30