Tuna Altınel, an associate professor of mathematics at University Claude Bernard Lyon 1 since 1996 and a member of Institut Camille Jordan, was incarcerated by the Turkish authorities on Saturday 11 May, 2019. Internationally recognized as a mathematician, he is also a professor who stands as a model in clarity and dedication. He is also […]
Category: France
non-uniform Laplace generation
This year, the French Statistical Society (SFDS) Prix Laplace has been granted to Luc Devroye, author of the Non-Uniform Random Generation bible. among many achievements!, prize that he will receive during the 2019 meeting in Nancy, this very week.
ABC with Gibbs steps
With Grégoire Clarté, Robin Ryder and Julien Stoehr, all from Paris-Dauphine, we have just arXived a paper on the specifics of ABC-Gibbs, which is a version of ABC where the generic ABC accept-reject step is replaced by a sequence of n conditional ABC accept-reject steps, each aiming at an ABC version of a conditional distribution […]
logicomix redux
I had not made the link until the last speaker of the 50 years of Dauphine commemoration was introduced that he was one of the authors of Logicomix. He spoke of the mathematical modeling of neurons and brain activity, rather than comics, but at a very low level that he called cartoonesque. It is a […]
along Avenue Karl Marx [jatp]
la peste gagne…
And in a more balanced presentation:
ABC in Grenoble, 19-20 March 2020
The next occurrence of the “ABC in…” workshops will take place in Grenoble, France, on 19-20 March 2020. Both local organising and international scientific committees have been constituted and the program should soon be constructed, along with calls to contributions launched at the same time. As in most earlier versions of the workshops (ABC in […]
Nice shot [jatp]
Calanques, calanques [aka 40/40]
the true meaning of ABC
the Montréal declarAIon
In conjunction with Yoshua Bengio being one of the three recipients of the 2018 Alan Turing award, Nature ran an interview of him about the Montréal Déclaration for a responsible AI, which he launched at NeurIPS last December. “Self-regulation is not going to work. Do you think that voluntary taxation works? It doesn’t.” Reflecting on […]
instituts interdisciplinaires d’intelligence artificielle
Four French institutes have just been selected by [the jury mandated by] the French Government to become interdisciplinary institutes for artificial intelligence (3IA): • ANITI (Toulouse), centred at l’Université Fédérale Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées • MIAI @ Grenoble Alpes (Grenoble), centred at l’Université Grenoble Alpes • PRAIRIE (Paris), centred à Inria • 3IA Côte d’Azur (Nice), centred […]
deep learning in Toulouse [post-doc position]
An opening for an ERC post-doc position on Bayesian deep learning with Cédric Févotte in Toulouse.
tenure track position in Clermont, Auvergne
My friend Arnaud Guillin pointed out this opening of a tenure-track professor position at his University of Clermont Auvergne, in Central France. With specialty in statistics and machine-learning, especially deep learning. The deadline for applications is 12 May 2019. (Tenure-track positions are quite rare in French universities and this offer includes a limited teaching load […]
heart of Paris
Notre Drame
statlearn 2019, Grenoble
In case you are near the French Alps next week, STATLEARN 2019 will take place in Grenoble, the week after next, 04 and 05 April. The program is quite exciting, registration is free of charge!, and still open, plus the mountains are next door!
permanent position for research on computational statistics and “omics” data
There is an opening at the French agronomy and genetics research centre, INRA, for a permanent research position on the country campus of Joyu-en-Josas, south-west of Paris, with focus on computational statistics (incl. machine-learning) and collaborations on omics data. The deadline is March 4. (The procedure is somewhat involved, as detailed in the guide for […]