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An introduction to the special issue “Joint IMS-ISBA meeting - MCMSki 4”

2014; Springer Science+Business Media; Volume: 25; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1007/s11222-014-9536-3

1573-1375

Antonietta Mira, Christian P. Robert,

The joint IMS-ISBA series of conferences (known as MCM-Ski), has been running since 2005, gathering computational experts in an alpine village for a 3 days meeting on Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods (and related topics), with the added perk of offering skiers the possibility to ski during the midday break.The last edition took place in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French Alps, on January 6-8, 2014, and it gathered 223 researchers from all over the world to share about their most recent work over nine parallel sessions and two poster evenings with a total of 75 posters.The program was constructed thanks to the scientific committee made of C.