StanCon 2018 Helsinki, 29-31 August 2018

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StanCon 2018 Asilomar was so much fun that we are organizing StanCon 2018 Helsinki August 29-31, 2018 at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (location chosen using antithetic sampling).

Website

Full information is available at StanCon 2018 Helsinki website
http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2018Helsinki/

Summary of the information

What: One day of tutorials and two days of talks, open discussions, and statistical modeling in beautiful Helsinki.

When: August 29-31, 2018

Where: Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Invited speakers

  • Richard McElreath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
  • Maggie Lieu, European Space Astronomy Centre
  • Sarah Heaps, Newcastle University
  • Daniel Simpson, University of Toronto

Call for contributed talks

StanCon’s version of conference proceedings is a collection of contributed talks based on interactive, self-contained notebooks (e.g., knitr, R Markdown, Jupyter, etc.). For example, you might demonstrate a novel modeling technique, or (possibly simplified version of) a novel application, etc. There is no minimum or maximum length and anyone using Stan is welcome to submit a contributed talk.

More details are available on the StanCon submissions web page and examples of accepted submissions from the past two StanCons are available in our stancon_talks repository on GitHub.

Contributed posters

We will accept poster submissions on a rolling basis until July 31st. One page exclusive of references is the desired format but anything that gives us enough information to make a decision is fine. See the conference web page for submission instructions.

Sponsors

If you’re interested in sponsoring StanCon 2018 Helsinki, please reach out to stancon2018helsinki@mc-stan.org. Your generous contributions will ensure that our registration costs are kept as low as possible and allow for us to subsidize attendance for students who would otherwise be unable to come.

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I plan to be there. That’s a great lineup of invited speakers.

There wasn’t a timeline for contributed talks. Is it the same as posters?

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Timelines are at the web site http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2018Helsinki/

  • Apr 16, 2018 Contributed talks submissions
  • May 16, 2018 Contributed talks acceptance notifications
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Thanks. That’ll give me plenty of time to finish up my current case study before writing one for Helsinki.

I also just agreed to do a tutorial in Helsinki on contributing to Stan as a developer in C++.

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The contributed talk submission deadline is in one week!

You can submit posters until end of July

Early registration until end of May and then the price will increase 50%.

Planned tutorials:

  • Basics of Bayesian inference and Stan (half day), Jonah Gabry
  • Hierarchical models (half day), Ben Goodrich
  • Stan C++ development (half day), Bob Carpenter, Sean Talts / Mitzi Morris
  • Model assessment and selection (1.5 hours), Aki Vehtari
  • Productization of Stan (1 hour)
  • Ordinal differential equation (ODE) models in Stan, Daniel Lee

Generous contributions of our sponsors will ensure that our registration costs are kept as low as possible and allow for us to subsidize attendance for students who would otherwise be unable to come.

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