12th of April, 2018, Lund University

The conference is over and we would like to thank everybody that participated and made this such great event! Below in the Schedule you’ll now find the slides and video recordings from all the presentations.

Good Bayes!
/The Organisers
Rasmus Bååth (rasmus.baath@gmail.com)
Ullrika Sahlin (ullrika.sahlin@cec.lu.se)

Schedule + videos and slides from the talks

   
08.45 Registration opens (just outside room LUX:C126)
09.10 Welcome (Room C116b)
09.15-10.00 Keynote presentation
- Why not to be afraid of priors (too much), Paul-Christian Bürkner, University of Münster, Department of Psychology. slides pdf, video of the talk
10.00-10.20 - Bayesian 3D Priors for Brain Imaging, Per Sidén, Lindköping university, Department of Computer and Information Science. slides pdf, video of the talk
10.20-10.40 Coffee break
10.40-12.00 Session: Bayesian Regression Models using Stan
- Introducing the brms R package, Paul-Christian Bürkner, University of Münster, Department of Psychology. slides pdf
- A hands-on example of Bayesian mixed models with brms, Andrey Anikin, Lund University, Cognitive Science. slides pdf, video of the talk
- Analyzing an experiment on involuntary attention using brms, Antonio Schettino, Ghent University, Department of Experimental Clinical and Health Psychology. slides pdf, video of the talk
- Analyzing orientation behaviour in animals using Stan, John Kirwan, Lund University, Department of Biology. slides pdf, video of the talk
12.00-12.45 Sandwich lunch and mingle in the foyer
12.45-13.30 Keynote presentation
- I know what you ate last summer! – the virtue of Bayesian analysis in food risk assessment, Jukka Ranta, Evira Finnish Food Safety Authority, Risk Assessment Unit. slides pdf, video of the talk
13.30-13.50 - Inference in ecology and evolution beyond generalised linear mixed models, Reinder Radersma, Lund university, Department of Biology. slides pdf, video of the talk
13.50-14.00 Quick break
14.00-15.00 Session: Bayesian hypothesis testing
- Is there something out there? , Ullrika Sahlin, Lund University, Centre for Environmental and Climate Research. slides pdf, video of the talk
- Bayes Factors: A ‘re-volution’ in psychology, Geoff Patching, Lund University, Department of Psychology. slides pdf, video of the talk
- Sequential Testing with Information Criteria and Evidence Ratios, Ladislas Nalborczyk, Univ. Grenoble Alpes & Ghent University. slides, video of the talk
15.00-15.30 Coffee and cake
15.30-16.15 Session: Approximate Bayesian inference
- What to do when exact Bayes is impossible? Some tools for approximate Bayesian inference Umberto Picchini, Lund University, Centre for Mathematical Sciences. slides pdf, video of the talk
- Making the most out of a single datapoint using Approximate Bayesian inference , Denis Shepelin, Technical University of Denmark, the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability. slides pdf, video of the talk
16.15-16.30 - How I introduce Bayes to beginners, Rasmus Bååth, King Digital Entertainment. slides pdf, video of the talk
16.30 Closing
17.30 Post-conference discussions and dinner at La Parada. (Directions: https://goo.gl/maps/uWoJ99Sz9AE2)

Program

For the full program, including abstracts, see the program booklet:

Introduction

You are welcome to participate in the fifth edition of Bayes@Lund! The purpose of this conference is to bring together researchers and professionals working with or interested in Bayesian methods. Bayes@Lund aims at being accessible to researchers with little experience of Bayesian methods while still being relevant to experienced practitioners. The focus is on how Bayesian methods are used in research and in the industry, what advantages Bayesian methods have over classical alternatives, and how the use and teaching of Bayesian methods can be encouraged.

Invited Speakers

This conference will feature a number of contributed talks and short tutorials, and invited talks by Paul-Christian Bürkner and Jukka Ranta.

Invited speakers: Paul-Christian Bürkner and Jukka Ranta

This year we are happy to announce that the first invited speaker is Paul-Christian Bürkner, researcher at the University of Münster, Department of Psychology. Paul is an expert in Bayesian statistical modeling, and is the creator of the well-known BRMS software package that makes it easy to do advanced Bayesian modeling. His invited presentation is Why not to be afraid of priors (too much).

We are equally happy to announce that the second invited speaker is Jukka Ranta, professor at the Finnish Food Safety Authority, and docent of biometry from Helsinki University. Jukka’s research is focused on Bayesian modeling for quantitative risk assessment in food safety applications. His invited presentation is I know what you ate last summer! – the virtue of Bayesian analysis in food risk assessment.

Contact

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Acknowledgement

We are deeply grateful to the COMPUTE research school for financial support of this event. We would like to thank the graduate research school ClimBEco for helping us bring the invited speakers to Lund University. We would also like to thank King Digital Entertainment for sponsoring the program.