Schedule for: 17w5060 - Bayesian Nonparametric Inference: Dependence Structures and their Applications

Beginning on Sunday, December 3 and ending Friday December 8, 2017

All times in Oaxaca, Mexico time, CST (UTC-6).

Sunday, December 3
14:00 - 23:59 Check-in begins (Front desk at your assigned hotel)
19:30 - 22:00 Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
20:30 - 21:30 Informal gathering (Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
Monday, December 4
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel)
09:30 - 09:45 Introduction and Welcome (Conference Room San Felipe)
09:45 - 10:30 Sinead Williamson: Bayesian nonparametric models for networks (Chair: Ismael Castillo --Room San Felipe--)
10:30 - 11:15 Harry van Zanten: Bayesian inference about smooth functions on grahps (Chair: Ismael Castillo --Room San Felipe--)
11:15 - 11:45 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
11:45 - 12:30 Pierpaolo De Blasi: Asymptotic behavior of the number of distinct values in a sample from the geometric stick-breaking process (Chair: Subhashis Ghoshal -Room San Felipe--)
12:30 - 13:15 Peter Orbanz: Convergence and concentration under symmetry constraints (Chair Subhashis Ghoshal. Room San Felipe)
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
15:00 - 15:45 Li Ma: Mixture modeling on related samples through psi-stick breaking and kernel perturbation. (Chair Eduardo Gutiérrez Peña -Room San Felipe-)
15:45 - 16:30 Yanxun Xu: Bayesian Repulsive Mixture Model (Chair Eduardo Gutiérrez Peña -Room San Felipe-)
16:30 - 17:00 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
Tuesday, December 5
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel)
09:30 - 10:15 Arniban Bhattacharya: Statistical properties of variational inference (Chair Sanvesh Srivastava -Room San Felipe-)
10:15 - 11:00 Trevor Campbell: Automated, Scalable Bayesian Inference with Theoretical Guarantees (Chair Sanvesh Srivastava -Room San Felipe-)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
11:30 - 12:15 Judith Rousseau: Nonparametric concentration rates for network models (Chair Aad van der Vaart -Room San Felipe-)
12:15 - 13:00 Bas Klejin: On the frequentist validity of Bayesian limits (Chair Aad van der Vaart -Room San Felipe-)
13:00 - 13:10 Group Photo (Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
16:00 - 16:45 Maria De Iorio: Bayesian Nonparamteric Modelling of Recurrent Event Processes (Chair Peter Mueller -Room San Felipe-)
16:45 - 17:30 Sudipto Banerjee: High-dimensional Bayesian Geostatistcs (Chair Peter Mueller -Room San Felipe-)
17:30 - 18:00 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
Wednesday, December 6
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel)
09:30 - 10:15 Ismaël Castillo: Sparse inference with spike-and-slab posterior distributions (Chair Jaeyong Lee -Room San Felipe-)
10:15 - 11:00 Alejandro Jara: On Dependent Dirichlet Processes for General Polish Spaces (Chair Jaeyong Lee-Room San Felipe-)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
11:30 - 12:15 David B. Dahl: Summarizing Distributions of Latent Structure Keywords (Chair: Ramsés H Mena -Room San Felipe-)
12:15 - 13:00 Alessandra Guglielmi: Cluster models with covariates (Chair: Ramsés H Mena -Room San Felipe-)
13:30 - 15:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
16:00 - 16:45 Tamara Broderick: Edge-exchangeable graphs and sparsity
Many popular network models rely on the assumption of (vertex) exchangeability, in which the distribution of the graph is invariant to relabelings of the vertices. However, the Aldous-Hoover theorem guarantees that these graphs are dense or empty with probability one, whereas many real-world graphs are sparse. We present an alternative notion of exchangeability for random graphs, which we call edge exchangeability, in which the distribution of a graph sequence is invariant to the order of the edges. We demonstrate that a wide range of edge-exchangeable models, unlike any models that are traditionally vertex-exchangeable, can exhibit sparsity. To develop characterization theorems for edge-exchangeable graphs analogous to the powerful Aldous-Hoover theorem for vertex-exchangeable graphs, we turn to a seemingly different combinatorial problem: clustering. Clustering involves placing entities into mutually exclusive categories. A "feature allocation" relaxes the requirement of mutual exclusivity and allows entities to belong simultaneously to multiple categories. In the case of clustering the class of probability distributions over exchangeable partitions of a dataset has been characterized (via "exchangeable partition probability functions" and the "Kingman paintbox"). These characterizations support an elegant nonparametric Bayesian framework for clustering in which the number of clusters is not assumed to be known a priori. We show how these characterizations can be extended to feature allocations and, from there, to edge-exchangeable graphs.
(Chair Fernando Quintana -Room San Felipe-)
16:45 - 17:30 Jim Griffin: Dependent nonparametric modelling through compound random measures (Chair Fernando Quintana -Room San Felipe-)
17:30 - 18:15 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
Thursday, December 7
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel)
09:30 - 10:15 Surya Tokdar: Quantile regression, extremes modeling (Chair Michele Guindani -Room San Felipe-)
10:15 - 11:00 Athanasios Kottas: Dynamic ordinal regression modeling, with applications to estimating natural selection surfaces in population biology (Chair Michele Guindani -Room San Felipe-)
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
11:30 - 12:15 Long Nguyen: Adaptive parameter estimation in mixture models (Chair Juhee Lee -Room San Felipe-)
12:15 - 13:00 Dario Spanò: Bayesian nonparametric inference for the Lambda-coalescent. (Chair Juhee Lee -Room San Felipe-)
13:30 - 14:30 Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
14:30 - 15:15 David Dunson: Bayesian subspace approximation via mixtures of spherelets (Chair Igor Pruenster -Room San Felipe-)
15:15 - 16:00 Luis E. Nieto-Barajas: Two unrelated topics: Polya trees and copulas (Chair Igor Pruenster -Room San Felipe-)
19:00 - 21:00 Dinner (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)
Friday, December 8
07:30 - 09:00 Breakfast (Restaurant at your assigned hotel)
09:00 - 09:45 Antonio Lijoi: Vectors of dependent priors for partially exchangeable data (Chair Abel Rodriguez -Room San Felipe-)
09:45 - 10:30 Sergio Bacallado: Bayesian inference in the hierarchical Pitman-Yor model (Chair Abel Rodriguez -Room San Felipe-)
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break (Conference Room San Felipe)
11:00 - 11:30 Asael Fabian Martínez Martínez: Allocation models with non-symmetric distributions and their applications in mixture modeling and clustering (Chair: Bernardo Nipoti)
11:30 - 12:00 Matteo Ruggiero: Dependent processes for functional forecasting in virtual gas markets (Chair: Bernardo Nipoti)
12:00 - 12:30 Juan Carlos Martinez-Ovando: Predictive Portfolio Optimization under Expected-Shortfall Including Estimation Error (Chair: Bernardo Nipoti)
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hotel Hacienda Los Laureles)