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Conference Program
Sunday, June 8
| 12:00 – 14:00 | Registration | |
| 14:00 – 16:00 | Chair: Dimitris Fouskakis | |
| 14:00 – 15:00 | 1st Tutorial: Dealing with model uncertainty through Bayesian Model Averaging | Mark Steel (University of Warwick) |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | 2nd Tutorial: Introduction to e-values | Rianne de Heide (University of Twente) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 – 18:30 | Chair: Marilena Barbieri | |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | 3rd Tutorial: Causal inference from observational data based on graphical models | Guido Consonni (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano) |
| 17:30 – 18:30 | 4th Tutorial: Bayesian nonparametric modelling of dependent distributions | Jim Griffin (University College, London) |
Monday, June 9
| 08:00 – 09:00 | Registration | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Opening Address | |
| 09:15 – 11:05 | Session 1 (Part A): Chair: Dimitris Fouskakis | |
| 09:15 – 10:10 | Counterexamples that help define the objective Bayesian philosophy Discussant: Luis R. Pericchi (University of Puerto Rico) | James Berger (Duke University) |
| 10:10 – 11:05 | FAB Prediction Discussant: Gunnar Taraldsen (Norwegian University of Science and Technology) | Peter Hoff (Duke University) |
| 11:05 – 11:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | Session 1 (Part B): Chair: Dimitris Fouskakis | |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | Bayesian restricted likelihood and model diagnostics Discussant: Radu Craiu (University of Toronto) | Steven Mac Eachern (Ohio State University) |
| 12:30 – 14:05 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:05 – 15:55 | Session 2 (Part A): Chair: Merlise Clyde | |
| 14:05 – 15:00 | Scoring rule-based priors for regression models Discussant: Marco Ferreira (Virginia Tech) | Isadora Antoniano Villalobos (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia) |
| 15:00 – 15:55 | Distance-Based Mixture Models for Prior Specification in Spatial Bayesian Analysis Discussant: Janet Van Niekerk (KAUST) | Clara Grazian (University of Sidney) |
| 15:55 – 16:25 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:25 – 17:20 | Session 2 (Part B): Chair: Merlise Clyde | |
| 16:25 – 17:20 | Bayesian Smoothing and Feature Selection via Variational Automatic Relevance Determination Discussant: Xenia Miscouridou (University of Cyprus) | Feng Liang (University of Illinois) |
| 17:45 – 19:45 | Reception & Poster Session | Chair: Anabel Forte |
Tuesday, June 10
| 09:15 – 11:05 | Session 3 (Part A): Chair: Cristiano Villa | |
| 09:15 – 10:10 | Pushing the limits of variable selection with external data Discussant: Maria Kalli (University College, London) | David Rossell (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) |
| 10:10 – 11:05 | Proper Bayes Minimax Multiple Shrinkage Estimation Discussant: Christopher Hans (Ohio State University) | Ed George (University of Illinois) |
| 11:05 – 11:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | Session 3 (Part B): Chair: Cristiano Villa | |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | Model Uncertainty via Predictive Resampling Discussant: Nikos Demiris (Athens University of Economics and Business) | Chris Holmes (Oxford University) |
| 12:30 – 14:05 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:05 – 15:55 | Session 4: Chair: Anabel Forte | |
| 14:05 – 15:00 | Bayesian calculus and predictive characterizations of extended feature allocation models Discussant: Michele Guindani (University of California) | Federico Camerlenghi (Università di Milano-Bicocca) |
| 15:00 – 15:55 | Loss-based priors for BART models Discussant: Luciana Dalla Valle (Università di Torino) | Fabrizio Leisen (King’s College, London) |
| 15:55 – 16:25 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:25 – 18:15 | Session 5: Chair: Ed George | |
| 16:25 – 17:20 | Safe anytime-valid e-value Bayes factors for one-factorial ANCOVA. Labeling invariance and growth-rate optimality Discussant: Fulvio De Santis (Sapienza Università di Roma) | Alexander Ly (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Amsterdam) |
| 17:20 – 18:15 | On Bayesian inference about the smoothness parameter in Gaussian Matern random fields Discussant: Mario Peruggia (Ohio State University) | Victor De Oliveira (University of Texas) |
Wednesday, June 11
| 09:15 – 11:05 | Session 6 (Part A): Chair: Guido Consonni | |
| 09:15 – 10:10 | On variable selection with non-linear effects Discussant: Veronika Rockova (University of Chicago) | Rui Paulo (Universidade de Lisboa) |
| 10:10 – 11:05 | O’Bayes reIMagined: probabilistic approximations of possibilistic inferential models Discussant: Angelos Alexopoulos (Athens University of Economics and Business) | Ryan Martin (North Carolina State University) |
| 11:05 – 11:35 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | Session 6 (Part B): Chair: Guido Consonni | |
| 11:35 – 12:30 | Bayesian estimation in high-dimensional Hawkes processes Discussant: Stefan Franssen (Université Paris Dauphine) | Judith Rousseau (Université Paris Dauphine) |
| 12:30 – 14:05 | Lunch Break | |
| 14:05 – 15:55 | Session 7: Chair: Mark Steel | |
| 14:05 – 15:00 | Combining confounded and unconfounded in heterogeneous treatment effect modelling Discussant: Stavros Nikolakopoulos (University Medical Center, Utrecht) | Ioanna Manolopoulou (University College, London) |
| 15:00 – 15:55 | Posterior asymptotics of high-dimensional spiked covariance model Discussant: Luis Carvalho (Boston University) | Jaeyong Lee (Seoul National University) |
| 15:55 – 16:25 | Coffee Break | |
| 16:30 – 17:30 | Meeting of OBayes Section | |
| 20:00 – 24:00 | Official Dinner |
Thursday, June 12
| 09:00 – 10:50 | Session 8: Chair: Brunero Liseo | |
| 09:00 – 09:55 | Fast inference for Bayesian nonparametrics via moments of functional means Discussant: Natalia Bochkina (University of Edinburgh) | Ramses Mena (UNAM, Mexico) |
| 09:55 – 10:50 | Selection of latent variables based on grouped Bayes factors Discussant: Marilena Barbieri (Università di Roma Tre) | Gonzalo Garcia Donato (University of Castilla-La Mancha) |
| 10:50 – 11:20 | Coffee Break | |
| 11:20 – 13:10 | Session 9: Chair: Ioannis Ntzoufras | |
| 11:20 – 12:15 | Bayesian model criticism using uniform parametrization checks Discussant: Yichen Zhu (Università Bocconi, Milano) | Jeffrey Miller (Harvard University) |
| 12:15 – 13:10 | Bayesian Model Criticism: From Holdout Checks to Model Comparison Discussant: Leonardo Egidi (Università di Trieste) | Gemma Moran (Rutgers University) |
| 13:10 – 13:25 | Closing Address |