SO-IAA School on Bayesian Statistics

5 May 2025, 09:00 → 8 May 2025, 12:00 Europe/Madrid

Salón de Actos (IAA)

 

Program 

• Monday May 5 - Basics of Bayesian Inference. A quick review of Bayes theorem, the basics of probability and probability distributions, followed by a fun exercise that introduces Bayesian inference in practice and how to define prior distributions. Finally, some connection to maximum likelihood and linear regression.
• Tuesday May 6 - Bayesian Computation. Bayesian inference in practice: the basics of sampling algorithms, and how to know whether your model is less wrong than other models.
• Wednesday May 7 - Beyond the linear model: hierarchical and generalized linear models. Going beyond the basics: population inference with hierarchical Bayesian modelling, fast inference with probabilistic and differentiable programming, and going beyond linear regression
• Thursday May 8 - Simulation-based Bayesian Inference. Bayesian inference with implicit likelihoods: how to sample posteriors when the likelihood is not accessible, but a simulator is.

The lectures will include practical exercises.

Each morning session will include a coffee break.

 

Dates

5 - 8 May 2024 (Mon to Wed 9h - 14h, Thu 9h-12h)

Tutors

Gwendolyn Eadie (University of Toronto)

Daniela Huppenkothen (SRON, The Netherlands)

 

Organizing Committee 

 

Rainer Schödel (IAA-CSIC)

Laura Darriba (IAA-CSIC)

Javier Moldón (IAA-CSIC)

Participants

The maximum number of participants will be limited to 40. 

 

Registration

The registration fee is 200€ for participants from the IAA-CSIC and 250 € for participants from external institutes. Registration is only considered complete once the payment has been received. Participants from the IAA-CSIC have to use their official (iaa.es) email when registering so that the discount is applied correctly. Please register here. 

 

 

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This event is supported by the "Center of Excellence Severo Ochoa" award to the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía. We acknowledge financial support from the Severo Ochoa grant CEX2021-001131-S funded by MCIN/AEI/ 10.13039/501100011033 from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía.