[Forum SIS] ABCinRome - 30-31 May 2013 - Sapienza Università di Roma

[Serena Arima]

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Sapienza Università di Roma
30-31 May 2013
Aula Bianchi Bandinelli

We are organizing a one-and-a-half day meeting, ABC in Rome (ABCiR),
on recent advances in approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) methods
at Sapienza. Since the previous meetings, in Paris and London, the
field has seen rapid progress and increased application of ABC methods
in a number of scientific areas, in particular in population,
evolutionary and systems biology. There have also been important
advances in the development of efficient numerical implementations,
and the increased use of ABC for model selection has given rise to new
conceptual and fundamental challenges.

ABCiR will bring together some of the leading researchers in the field
of ABC, who will present the state of the art in
- applications of ABC to real world problems
- recent computational advances in ABC
- comparative efficiency of ABC methods with respect to alternative methodologies
- model selection and model checking in the ABC framework.

More details can be found at the workshop website is https://sites.google.com/site/approxbayescompinrome/.

Attendance is free but we ask people to register as space is strictly
limited. You can register at 

https://sites.google.com/site/approxbayescompinrome/registration

We particularly encourage posters detailing recent software implementations of ABC
methods and any computational advances.

We believe that this workshop will provide a forum for
positive interaction among leaders in statistical developments
and advances in this important area.  We look forward to
this opportunity to share ideas and engage in discussions with you.

On behalf of the scientific committee

Brunero Liseo

Organisers

Mark Beaumont (School of Biological Sciences, Univ of Bristol)
Brunero Liseo (MEMOTEF, Sapienza) local chair,
Christian Robert (Paris-Dauphine)
Michael Stumpf (Theoretical Systems Biology,Imperial College London)
Simon Tavaré (Department of Biological Sciences  University of
Southern California)

Local contacts
Brunero Liseo brunero.liseo at uniroma1.it
Serena Arima serena.arima at uniroma1.it
Luca Tardella luca.tardella at uniroma1.it
Andrea Tancredi andrea.tancredi at uniroma1.it
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