BISP5
Fifth Workshop on
BAYESIAN INFERENCE IN STOCHASTIC PROCESSES
Valencia (Spain), June 14-16, 2007
 


Programme


Thursday June 14th

15:00-16:00 h REGISTRATION AT ADEIT
 
16:00-17:30 h SESSION 1: INVITED
Chair: Susie Bayarri (Universitat de València)

Jim Berger (Duke University). Analysis of Complex Computer Models of Processes

Arnaud Doucet (University of British Columbia). The Expected Auxiliary Variables Method for Bayesian Inference in State-Space Models
 
17:30-18:00 h ORXATA BREAK (Typical beverage from the Valencian Country)
 
18:00-19:00 h SESSION 2: INVITED CONTRIBUTED
Chair: Antonio López-Quílez (Universitat de València)

Miguel Ángel Martínez-Beneito* (Epidemiology Service, Generalitat Valenciana and Universitat de València), Antonio López-Quílez (Universitat de València) and Paloma Botella-Rocamora (Universidad CEU San Pablo Cardenal Herrera and Universitat de València). Linking spatio-temporal disease mapping information

Raquel Prado (University of California at Santa Cruz). Sequential estimation of features associated with states of mental alertness in EEG signals

 
20:00-21:30 h WELCOME RECEPTION
 

Friday June 15th

9:30-11:00 h SESSION 3: INVITED
Chair: Sonia Petrone (Università Bocconi)

Shengde Liang and Brad Carlin* (University of Minnesota). Spatial Point Processes Models for Multivariate Data

Tobias Rydén (Lund University). Pros and cons of Bayesian estimation of hidden Markov models
 
11:00-11:30 h COFFEE BREAK
 
11:30-13:10 h SESSION 4: CONTRIBUTED
Chair: Juan Antonio Cano (Universidad de Murcia)

George W. Woodworth (University of Iowa) and Jay Kadane* (Carnegie Mellon University). Age and Time-Varying Proportional Hazards Model for Employment Discrimination

Hedibert F. Lopes*, Robert McCulloch and Ruey Tsay (The University of Chicago). Time-varying Covariances: A Cholesky Decomposition Approach

Malcolm J. Price*, Nicky J. Welton and A.E. Ades (University of Bristol). Bayesian Inferential Techniques for Modelling the Effect of Treatment on Disease Progression Represented by a Continuous-time Markov Model

Vilda Purutçuoglu* and Ernst Wit (Lancaster University). Bayesian inference for the MAPK/ERK pathway by considering the dependency of the kinetic parameters

Refik Soyer* and M. Murat Tarimcilar (The George Washington University). Modeling and Analysis of Call Center Arrival Data: A Bayesian Approach
 
13:10-15:30 h LUNCH BREAK
 
15:30-17:00 h SESSION 5: INVITED CONTRIBUTED
Chair: Carmen Armero (Universitat de València)

Nicolas Chopin* (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique, Paris) and Elisa Varini (CNR Milano). Likelihood inference for continuous-time hidden Markov models

Pierpaolo De Blasi* (University of Turin) and Nils Lid Hjort (Univerity of Oslo). Bayesian survival analysis in proportional hazard models with logistic relative risk

Zhen Wang* and Steven N. MacEachern (Ohio State University). Bayesian inference for a distribution-valued stochastic process

 
17:00-17:30 h ORXATA BREAK (Typical beverage from the Valencian Country)
 
17:30-19:00 h SESSION 6: INVITED CONTRIBUTED
Chair: Michael Wiper (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Paul Fearnhead (Lancaster University). Bayesian analysis of the structure of GC content in the Human Genome

Andrew Golightly* and Darren J. Wilkinson (Newcastle University). Bayesian inference for nonlinear multivariate diffusion processes

Marc Suchard (University of California at Los Angeles). Phylogenetic repeated measures models via a Brownian diffusion process

 
19:00-21:30 h Poster SESSION
Chair: David Conesa (Universitat de València)

List and abstracts of poster contributions (only those which autors have confirmed their presence).
 

Saturday June 16th

9:30-11:00 h SESSION 7: INVITED
Chair: Peter Mueller (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center)

Richard Boys (Newcastle University). Bayesian inference for stochastic epidemic models with time-inhomogeneous removal rates

Bhramar Mukherjee (University of Michigan). Using the Dirichlet Process Prior to Model Epidemiologic Data
 
11:00-11:30 h COFFEE BREAK
 
11:30-13:10 h SESSION 8: CONTRIBUTED
Chair: Marco Ferreira (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)

Dilan Gorur* and Carl Edward Rasmussen (Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics). Dirichlet Process Mixtures of Factor Analysers

Michele Guindani* (UT MD Anderson Cancer Center), Alan Gelfand (Duke University) and Sonia Petrone (Bocconi University). Hybrid Dirichlet processes for Bayesian inference with functional data

John Haslett and Andrew Parnell* (Trinity College Dublin). Non-parametric Bayesian monotonic regression with applications to radiocarbon dating

Matteo Ruggiero* (University of Turin) and Stephen G. Walker (University of Kent). Urn-based Particle Processes for Fleming-Viot Models in Bayesian Nonparametrics

Matt Taddy* and Athanasios Kottas (University of California at Santa Cruz). Bayesian Nonparametric Markov Switching Regression Models
 
13:10-15:30 h LUNCH BREAK
 
15:30-17:00 h SESSION 9: INVITED CONTRIBUTED
Chair: Fabrizio Ruggeri (CNR-IMATI, Milano)

Lancelot F. James (Hong Kong University ) and John W. Lau* (University of Bristol). A class of generalized hyperbolic continuous time integrated stochastic volability likelihood models

Gonzalo García-Donato Layrón (Universidad de Castilla- La Mancha), Jesús Palomo (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) and Rui Paulo (University of Bristol). Validation of computer models with multivariate functional outputs

Fabio Rigat (University of Warwick). Parallel hierarchical sampling

 
18:00-23:30 h EXCURSION AND FAREWELL DINNER
 



* denotes the speaker



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