Reminder to register for StanCon! We’re at Asilomar this year so once we sell out we’re out of space… Also, we have a schedule up: http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2018/#speakers-and-schedule If you’re new to Stan you can come, see what people are doing and get up and running with the language in 8 hours of intro tutorial, or for more advanced people, drop into advanced hierarchical models or Gaussian processes.
More info: StanCon is happening at the beautiful Asilomar conference facility at the beach in Monterey California for three days starting January 10, 2018 (yes, just after the AmNat meeting). We have space for 200 attendees. If you don't already know, Stan is a great language for probabilistic modeling with Bayesian analysis. If you do statistics, machine learning or data science then you need to know about Stan. StanCon offers a dense schedule of invited talks, submitted papers, and tutorials unavailable in any other format. Balancing the intellectual intensity of cutting edge statistical modeling are fun activities like indoor R/C airplane building/flying/designing (http://brooklynaerodrome.com) and non-snobby blind wine tasting for after dinner activities. We will have the first ever "wear your poster" reception. And no parallel sessions--you get the entire StanCon2018, not a slice. Go to http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2018 to register. More details: We have 6 invited talks: Andrew Gelman, Department of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University Susan Holmes, Department of Statistics, Stanford University Sophia Rabe-Hesketh, Educational Statistics and Biostatistics, University of California, Berkeley Sean Taylor and Ben Letham, Facebook Core Data Science Manuel Rivas, Department of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University Talia Weiss, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Submitted talks: We have 18 accepted talks ranging from public policy viewed through Bayesian analysis to painful theory papers. Talks are self-contained knitr or Jupyter notebooks that will be made publicly available after the conference. Tutorials: We have tutorials that start at the crack of 8am for those desiring further edification beyond the awesome program. Total time ranges from 8 hours to 1 hour depending on topic—these will be parallel but don’t conflict with the main conference. That's it! StanCon2018 is going to be a pressure cooker of learning and fun. Don't miss it. Go to http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2018 and register. Lizzie and the rest of the StanCon Organizing Committee
