O'Bayes 2022

University of California Santa Cruz
September 6-10, 2022

The complete conference schedule in a single PDF is here.
All tutorial and talk titles and abstracts in a single PDF is here.
The complete list of accepted posters is here.

Detailed Schedule

Tuesday Sept 6
12:00 – 14:00	Registration
14:00 – 15:00	Tutorial #1: An Introduction to Bayesian Model Averaging	Mark Steel (University of Warwick)
15:00 – 16:00	Tutorial #2: Bayesian Nonparametrics Methods with Applications to the Analysis of Neuroimaging Data	Michele Guindani (UCLA)
16:30 – 17:30	Tutorial #3: Scalable Bayesian Computation for Hierarchical Models: Methods and Theory	Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Università Bocconi)
17:30 – 18:30	Tutorial #4: Bayesian Inference in High- Dimensional Models	Subhashis Ghosal (NCSU)
Wednesday Sept 7
8:00 – 9:00	Registration
09:00 – 09:15	Opening Address	Dimitris Fouskakis (NTUA) and Bruno Sansó (UCSC)
09:15 - 10:10	Reverse-Bayes Methods for the Analysis of Replication Studies Discussion	Leo Held (University of Zurich) discussant: Luis Pericchi (University of Puerto Rico)
10:10 - 11:05	An Extension of the Unified Skew-Normal Family of Distributions and Applications to Bayesian Binary Regression Discussion	Brunero Liseo (Sapienza Università di Roma) discussant: Athanasios Kottas (UCSC)
11:35 – 12.30	The Role of Skew-Symmetric Distributions in Bayesian Inference: Conjugacy, Scalable Approximations and Asymptotics Discussion	Daniele Durante (Università Bocconi) discussant: Mengyang Gu (UCSB)
14:05 – 15:00	Screening the Discrepancy Function of a Computer Model Discussion	Anabel Forte (Universitat de València) discussant: Marilena Barbieri (Università Roma Tre)
15:00 - 15:55	Model Selection Quantification in Presence of Missing Data Discussion	Maria-Eugenia Castellanos (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) discussant: Marco Ferreira (Virginia Tech)
16:25 - 17:20	Automatic Relevance Determination with Statistical Guarantees Discussion	Feng Liang (UIUC) discussant: David Draper (UCSC)
17:45 – 19:45	Reception and Poster Session
Thursday Sept 8
9:15 - 10:10	Concentration and Robustness of Discrepancy-Based ABC via Rademacher Complexity Discussion	Pierre Alquier (RIKEN - AIP) discussant: Anirban Bhattacharya (Texas A&M University)
10:10 - 11:05	Bayesian Synthetic Likelihood – Asymptotics and Misspecification Discussion	Chris Drovandi (Queensland University of Technology) discussant: Stefano Cabras (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
11:35 - 12:30	Automatic Learning of Functional Summary Statistics for Approximate Bayesian Computation Discussion	Florence Forbes (INRIA Grenoble Rhone-Alpes) discussant: Natesh Pillai (Harvard University)
14:05 – 15:00	Building Bridges: Bayesian Approaches for Increasing Reproducibility in Null Hypothesis Significance Testing Discussion	Maria-Eglée Pérez (University of Puerto Rico) discussant Alexander Ly (University of Amsterdam)
15:00 - 15:55	Model Selection as Point Estimation Discussion	Eduardo Gutierrez (IIMAS, UNAM) discussant: Edward George (University of Pennsylvania)
16:25 - 17:20	Default Priors and Robust Estimation for Generalized Linear Models Discussion; Rejoinder	Abel Rodriguez (University of Washington) discussant: Alice Kirichenko (University of Warwick)
17:20 - 18:15	Reflections on Intrinsic Priors	Jim Berger (Duke University) discussant: Luis Pericchi (University of Puerto Rico)
Friday Sept 9
9:15 - 10:10	Improper Models for Data Analysis Discussion	David Rossell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) discussant: Havard Rue (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)
10:10 - 11:05	Adversarial Bayesian Simulation Discussion	Veronika Rockova (University of Chicago) discussant: Weining Shen (UCI)
11:35 - 12:30	Functional Partial Membership Models Discussion	Donatello Telesca (UCLA) discussant: Luis Carvalho (Boston University)
14:05 – 15:00	Nested Nonparametric Processes Discussion	Federico Camerlenghi (University of Milano-Bicocca) discussant: Antonio Canalle (University of Padova)
15:00 - 15:55	Exchangeable Random Measures and Stick-Breaking Priors Discussion	Ramsés Mena (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) discussant: Sinead Williamson (University of Texas at Austin)
16:30 – 17:30	Meeting of the O’Bayes Section of ISBA (open to everyone)
19:00 – 22:00	Conference Dinner
Saturday Sept 10
9:00 - 9:55	Predictive Inference: a Path Towards Objectivity? Discussion	Chris Holmes (University of Oxford) discussant: Bertrand Clarke (UNL)
9:55 - 10:50	Finding Structures in Observations: Consistent(?) Clustering Analysis Discussion	Clara Grazian (University of Sidney) discussant: Garritt Page (BYU)
11:25 - 12:15	A Multidimensional Objective Prior based on Scoring Rules Discussion	Isadora Antoniano-Villalobos (Università Ca' Foscari) discussant: Stefan Franssen (Delft University)
12:15 – 12:30	Closing Address