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• When? Every Tuesday at 2:30pm
• Where? LG.04, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles'

Upcoming

Date	Topic	Presenters
26/1	External talk - "Extremal point process of the branching Brownian motion"	Julien Berestycki
Organisational meeting	all
2/2	W&J chap 3 - 4.1	Leonard Hasenclever + Stefan Webb
9/2	W&J rest of chap 4, (chap 5)	Thibaut Lienart, (?)
16/2
23/2
1/3

Upcoming Topics:

Variational inference and expectation propagation (Yee Whye)

• Wainwright & Jordan
• EP for approximate inference (Heskes & Zoeter)
• BB-alpha
• Convergent EP (Lobato),
• Fast convergent algorithms for EP (Seeger, Nickish)

SDEs and SGMCMC (Sebastian)

• Emily Fox Family of SDEs paper
• Changyou Chen & Lawrence Carin series (Dec 2015)

Bayesian Nonparametrics and stochastic processes

• [Gnedin & Pitman. Notes on the occupancy problem with infinitely many boxes: general asymptotics and power laws. Proba. surveys.]
• Harry Crane on Ewens' Sampling Formula
• Asmussen & Rosinsky, Cohen & Rosinsky on Gaussian tail approximations of Levy processes
• Tree processes (DDT, PYDT, coalescent, Gibbs fragmentation, continuum random trees?)
• Harry Crane on networks
• Neil Sheppard on Levy processes
• GP inducing points
• GP kernel structure learning (Duvenaud et al arxiv:1302.4922v4)
• Structure learning in matrix factorisation (Grosse et al)

Bayesian learning in general

• Bayesian dark Knowledge (Korattikara et al)

External speakers

• Andriy Mnih, Nicholas Heess, Charles Blundell
• Richard Xu

Model checking, evaluation (BDA Gelman)

• Posterior predictive checks
• WAIC

Past Meetings (2014-2015)