BISP14 | 26-28 May 2025

Contributed Talks

Welcome to the Contributions Room, where the abstracts of the contributors and, optionally, also slides and short pre-recorded videos are available.

1

Bayesian inference of sparsity in stationary, multivariate autoregressive processes

Sarah Heaps
Durham University, United Kingdom

Darren Wilkinson, Durham University, UK
Ian Jermyn, Durham University, UK
Yujiang Wang, Newcastle University, UK

2

Sequential Gaussian Processes for Online Learning of Nonstationary Functions

Michael Minyi Zhang
University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Bianca Dumitrascu, Columbia University, USA
Sinead Williamson, Apple Research, USA
Barbara Engelhardt, Stanford University, USA

3

Bayesian inference for oscillatory systems using the pcLNA algorithms

Ben Swallow
University of St Andrews, United Kingdom

Giorgos Minas, University of St Andrews, UK
David Rand, University of Warwick, UK

4

Vecchia Gaussian processes: Probabilistic properties, minimax rates and methodological developments

Yichen Zhu
Università Bocconi, Italy

Botond Szabo, Bocconi University, Italy

5

Exchangeable random permutations for graph matching

Francesco Gaffi
University of Maryland, College Park, United States

Nathaniel Josephs, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA
Lizhen Lin, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

6

Variable Ordering in a Cholesky-MSV model for stock market data

Martina Zaharieva
CUNEF Universidad, Spain

Ping Wu, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

7

Characterization of exchangeable Hoeffding decomposable sequences

Hristo Sariev
Institute of Mathematics and Informatics, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria

Mladen Savov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria
Stefan Gerdjikov, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski", Bulgaria

8

The Wiener disorder problem with random post-disorder drift

Bruno Buonaguidi
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, sede di Milano, Italy

Francesco Ballarin, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, sede di Brescia, Italy

9

MMAF-guided learning for spatio-temporal data

Imma Valentina Curato
TU Chemnitz, Germany
10

Modeling Neural Switching via Drift-Diffusion Models

Nicholas Marco
Duke University, United States

Jennifer M. Groh, Duke University, USA
Surya T. Tokdar, Duke University, USA

11

Bayesian Sequential Batch Design with Hierarchical Gaussian Processes

Shuang Zhou
School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Arizona State University, United States

Ping-Han Huang, Arizona State University, USA
MIng-Huang Gao, Arizona State University, USA

12

Gaussian Invariance in Markov Chain Monte Carlo

Angelos Alexopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

Michalis Titsias, Google Deep Mind, UK
Petros Dellaportas, UCL & Athens University of Economics and Business, UK
Siran Liu, UCL, UK

13

Bayesian inference from time series of allele frequency data using exact simulation techniques

Jaromir Sant
Universita degli Studi di Torino, Italy

Paul A. Jenkins, University of Warwick, UK
Jere Koskela, University of Warwick & Newcastle University, UK
Dario Spanò, University of Warwick, UK

14

Bayesian Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Modelling of Extremes Using the Blended GEV Distribution

Fernando Mayer
Maynooth University, Ireland

Niamh Cahill, Maynooth University, Ireland

15

Bayesian Markov-Switching Partial Reduced-Rank Regression

Matteo Iacopini
Luiss University of Rome, Italy

Maria F. Pintado Serrano, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Luca Rossini, University of Milan, Italy
Alexander Y. Shestopaloff, Queen Mary University of London, UK

16

Linear reversible processes and the three-parameter distribution of random integer partitions

Sergey Sosnovskiy
independent, formerly at Frankfurt School, Germany
17

Bayesian Inference for Site-Dependent Evolutionary Models: Applications to Vaccine Design

Scott C. Schmidler
Duke University, Department of Statistical Science, United States
18

First-order integer-valued autoregressive processes with Generalized Katz innovations

Roberto Casarin
Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy
26 May 2025
  • 9.00-9.05 Opening
  • 9.05-9.45 Invited: Dani Gamerman
  • 9.45-10.05 Talk: Roberto Casarin
  • 10.05-10.25 Talk: Sarah Heaps
  • 10.25-10.45 Talk: Martina Zaharieva
  • 10.45-11.15 Coffee break
  • 11.15-11.45 J-ISBA: Louise Alamichel
  • 11.45-12.15 J-ISBA: Lorenzo Ghilotti
  • 12.15-12.45 J-ISBA: Giovanni Rebaudo
  • 12.45-14.15 Lunch & Poster session 1
  • 14.15-14.45 Deep NN: Paul Egels
  • 14.45-15.15 Deep NN: Lucia Pezzetti
  • 15.15-15.45 Deep NN: Torben Sell
  • 15.45-16.15 Coffee break
  • 16.15-16.35 Talk: Nicholas Marco
  • 16.35-16.55 Talk: Jaromir Sant
  • 16.55-17.15 Talk: Shuang Zhou
  • 17.15-17.55 Invited: José Miguel Hernández-Lobato
Detailed Program
27 May 2025
  • 9.00-9.40 Invited: Sylvia Frühwirth-Schnatter
  • 9.40-10.00 Talk: Imma Valentina Curato
  • 10.00-10.20 Talk: Fernando Mayer
  • 10.20-10.40 Talk: Scott C. Schmidler
  • 10.40-11.10 Coffee break
  • 11.10-11.40 Invited: Nicolas Bianco
  • 11.40-12.10 Invited: Augusto Fasano
  • 12.10-12.40 Invited: Beatrice Franzolini
  • 12.40-14.10 Lunch & Poster session 2
  • 14.10-14.30 Talk: Angelos Alexopoulos
  • 14.30-14.50 Talk: Francesco Gaffi
  • 14.50-15.10 Talk: Matteo Iacopini
  • 15.10-15.30 Talk: Ben Swallow
  • 15.30-15.50 Talk: Michael Minyi Zhang
  • 15.50-16.20 Coffee break
  • 16.20-16.40 ISBA-IS: Tevfik Aktekin
  • 16.40-17.00 ISBA-IS: Tahir Ekin
  • 17.00-17.20 ISBA-IS: Tommaso Rigon
  • 17.20-18.00 Invited: Bernardo Nipoti
  • 20:00-23.00 Dinner
Detailed Program
28 May 2025
  • 9.00-9.40 Invited: David Dunson
  • 9.40-10.00 Talk: Bruno Buonaguidi
  • 10.00-10.20 Talk: Hristo Sariev
  • 10.20-10.40 Talk: Sergey Sosnovskiy
  • 10.40-11.00 Talk: Yichen Zhu
  • 11.00-11.30 Coffee break
  • 11.30-12.00 Invited: François-Xavier Briol
  • 12.00-12.30 Invited: Elizaveta Semenova
  • 12.30-12.35 Farewell
Detailed Program
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