September 2019 - SIPTA News

Re: [SIPTA] Brett Houlding

by Alessio Benavoli

Sept. 25, 2019

Re: [SIPTA] Brett Houlding

by Polpo de Campos

I have had the chance to meet Brett a couple of times, including for the anniversary of the Department of Statistics in Dublin. A very nice person. These are sad news. Regards, cassio. ________________________________________ From: SIPTA [sipta-bounces(a)mailman2.ti-edu.ch] on behalf of Alessandro Antonucci [alessandro(a)idsia.ch] Sent: 23 September 2019 17:04 To: sipta(a)idsia.ch Subject: [SIPTA] Brett Houlding Forwarding a message from Frank Coolen, remembering our colleague Brett Houlding. ===================================== Dear friends, I would like to make the community aware of the sudden and untimely passing away of Brett Houlding on 14 September. Brett completed the MMATH degree at Durham in 2004 and then studied for PhD, it was my pleasure to supervise him. He completed his PhD in 2008 with a thesis entitled 'Sequential decision making with adaptive utility'. Brett made some contributions to imprecision, but in my view his main achievements are in decision theory. His thesis sets out foundations, theory and methods for sequential Bayesian decision theory where one also learns about ones utilities throughout the process. This aspect of decision theory has received surprisingly little attention, although it is relevant in many scenarios, e.g. should one visit a new restaurant, how serious are possible effects of system failure, what are side effects of new medication? In his thesis, Brett provided the starting points of a nice and powerful theory, with many research challenges remaining. After completing his PhD, Brett moved to Trinity College Dublin, first as PostDoc researcher and followed by an Assistant Professorship. This was in years of economic downturn in Ireland, with universities strongly affected. With only few colleagues Brett managed to keep an excellent undergraduate programme running, and he also supervised three students to PhD: Donnacha Bolger ('Reliability updating in linear opinion pooling with multiple decision makers', 2016), Shuaiwei Zhou ('Bayesian modelling and analysis of utility-based maintenance for repairable systems', 2017) and Angela McCourt ('Modelling uncertainty and vagueness within recommender systems via nonparametric predictive inference', 2019). He also collaborated successfully on applied statistics projects with external collaborators, which led to a range of high impact publications, in particular in the field of species richness assessment. About a year ago, Brett moved to an Associate Professor position at University College Cork, also in Ireland, where he looked forward to more research opportunities and a happy family life. I am happy to have known Brett, he was a hard-working, intelligent and nice person who will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Frank Coolen ===================================== _______________________________________________ SIPTA mailing list SIPTA(a)mailman2.ti-edu.ch https://mailman2.ti-edu.ch/mailman/listinfo/sipta

Sept. 24, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration October 2

by IRDTA

Sept. 24, 2019

[SIPTA] Brett Houlding

by Alessandro Antonucci

Forwarding a message from Frank Coolen, remembering our colleague Brett Houlding. ===================================== Dear friends, I would like to make the community aware of the sudden and untimely passing away of Brett Houlding on 14 September. Brett completed the MMATH degree at Durham in 2004 and then studied for PhD, it was my pleasure to supervise him. He completed his PhD in 2008 with a thesis entitled 'Sequential decision making with adaptive utility'. Brett made some contributions to imprecision, but in my view his main achievements are in decision theory. His thesis sets out foundations, theory and methods for sequential Bayesian decision theory where one also learns about ones utilities throughout the process. This aspect of decision theory has received surprisingly little attention, although it is relevant in many scenarios, e.g. should one visit a new restaurant, how serious are possible effects of system failure, what are side effects of new medication? In his thesis, Brett provided the starting points of a nice and powerful theory, with many research challenges remaining. After completing his PhD, Brett moved to Trinity College Dublin, first as PostDoc researcher and followed by an Assistant Professorship. This was in years of economic downturn in Ireland, with universities strongly affected. With only few colleagues Brett managed to keep an excellent undergraduate programme running, and he also supervised three students to PhD: Donnacha Bolger ('Reliability updating in linear opinion pooling with multiple decision makers', 2016), Shuaiwei Zhou ('Bayesian modelling and analysis of utility-based maintenance for repairable systems', 2017) and Angela McCourt ('Modelling uncertainty and vagueness within recommender systems via nonparametric predictive inference', 2019). He also collaborated successfully on applied statistics projects with external collaborators, which led to a range of high impact publications, in particular in the field of species richness assessment. About a year ago, Brett moved to an Associate Professor position at University College Cork, also in Ireland, where he looked forward to more research opportunities and a happy family life. I am happy to have known Brett, he was a hard-working, intelligent and nice person who will be greatly missed by all who knew him. Frank Coolen =====================================

Sept. 23, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: two faculty positions at University of Texas at El Paso

by Kreinovich

Sept. 22, 2019

[SIPTA] TPNC 2019: call for posters

by IRDTA

Sept. 17, 2019

[SIPTA] LATA 2020: 2nd call for papers

by IRDTA

Sept. 10, 2019

[SIPTA] Call for papers FSTA 2020

by Serena Doria

FSTA 2020 http://fsta.sk/ The aim of the conference is to bring together theoreticians and practitioners working on fuzzy logic, fuzzy systems, soft computing and related areas. It will provide a platform for the exchange of ideas among scientists, engineers and students. The topics addressed by the Conference cover all aspects of fuzzy logic and soft computing, namely: ? Approximate reasoning ? Clustering and classification ? Cognitive modeling ? Intelligent data analysis and data-mining ? Data aggregation and fusion ? Database management and querying ? Theory and applications of decision-making ? Forecasting and time series modeling ? Fuzzy control ? Theoretical foundations of fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory ? Imprecise probabilities and fuzzy methods in statistics ? Image processing and computer vision ? Information retrieval ? Knowledge representation and knowledge engineering ? Linguistic modelling ? Machine learning ? Natural language processing, generation and understanding ? Neuro-fuzzy systems ? Stochastic and fuzzy optimization ? Possibility theory and applications ? Rough sets theory ? Semantic web ? Uncertainty modeling

Sept. 4, 2019

[SIPTA] FW: ESREL 2020 PSAM 15: Abstract Submission is Open

by Kreinovich

Sept. 3, 2019

[SIPTA] BigDat 2020: early registration September 7

by IRDTA

Sept. 3, 2019