Hi All, This post provides updates on StanCon and solicits suggestions & proposals. With much deliberation the @SGB has decided that in lieu of a full day event, for the year of 2021 we adopt the format of a series of minisymposia. Each minisymposium will take approximately 2-3 hours, and four such…

Hi, that sounds great! And I agree that long online conferences in Zoom are really tiring! I’m completely booked for April or May, so I’m actually proposing to organize the one in the last quarter of the year. I would like to organize something with a focus on cognitive(-neuro) science ( https://co…

That indeed sounds great! My suggestions: Avoid Zoom because it does not have good network support for people located in Asia/Latin America. I think the best overall solution would be Google Meet (if we have more than 100 participants, we could stream it to YouTube and have questions being aske…

+1 to the teaching/education topic.

I really enjoyed StanCon2020, but also think it could work even better to split things up and certainly worth trying that format out.

Name suggestion: StanConnect Dear all, I have thought a bit about potential names for this and somehow the name StanConnect felt good. If we have a specific topic (Education, Neuro Science, Computational Biology, Market Research, etc.) we could call it StanConnect TOPIC, StanConnect: TOPIC, or …

Like it. If the event works well, we’ll win the search engine fight, there is nothing strong to compete against. Fun fact, in Czech “stan” means “tent” and there is a bunch of tents branded as “Connect”, so I get those as first results :-D Stan has a bunch of related meanings (tent, building, hut,…

I like it :) It has a very friendly and inviting feeling to it.

I’ve seen @mcmc_stan retweeting many interesting looking papers solving complex real world problems with Stan. I think it would be interesting to hear the authors of those papers to tell how they solved the problems with Stan, and a bit more about the possible challenges or revelations they got spec…

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The official announcement & call for proposals: StanConnect 2021: Call for Session Proposals.

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