Save the date! The first Stan conference is going to be in NYC this January. Registration will open at the end of September.
Stan is a probabilistic programming language that allows (among other things) full Bayesian statistical inference with MCMC sampling (NUTS, HMC), full Bayesian statistical inference with MCMC sampling (NUTS, HMC), and penalized maximum likelihood estimation with optimization (L-BFGS). You can use with R, Python, Julia and more. When: Saturday, January 21, 2017 Where: Davis Auditorium, Columbia University 530 West 120th Street 4th floor (campus level), room 412 New York, NY 10027 Registration: Registration will open at the end of September. Early registration (on or before December 20, 2016): Student: $50 Academic: $100 Industry: $200 This will include coffee, lunch, and some swag. Late Registration (December 21, 2016 and on): Student: $75 Academic: $150 Industry: $300 This will include coffee and lunch. Contributed talks: We’re looking for contributed talks. We will start accepting submissions at the end of September. The contributed talks at StanCon will be based on interactive, self-contained notebooks, such as knitr or Jupyter, that will also take the place of proceedings. For example, you might demonstrate a novel modeling technique or a simplified version of a novel application. Each submission should include the notebook and separate files containing the Stan program, data, initializations if used, and a permissive license for everything such as CC BY 4.0. More info here: http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon.html or feel free to send me an email with any questions. ~Lizzie
