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From: Gong, Robin [mailto:rgong@fas.harvard.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 24, 2017 10:11 AM
To: bff4info@gmail.com
Cc: Meng, Xiao-Li <meng@stat.harvard.edu>; Straubel, Madeleine <mstraubel@fas.harvard.edu>
Subject: Registration open: Fourth Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist Workshop (BFF4), May 1-3, Harvard University
Registration is open for the 4th Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist Workshop.
Fourth Bayesian, Fiducial, and Frequentist Workshop (BFF4)
Harvard University
May 1 - 3, 2017
Hilles Event Hall, 59 Shepard St, Cambridge, MA
The 4th Bayesian, Fiducial and Frequentist Workshop (BFF4) will be held on May 1-3, 2017 at Harvard University. The BFF workshop series celebrates foundational thinking in statistics and inference under uncertainty. The three-day event
will present talks, discussions and panels that feature scholars whose research interests synergize at the interface of probability, statistics and philosophy. The program will open with a featured talk by Art Dempster and discussion by Glenn Shafer. The featured
banquet speaker will be Stephen Stigler. Confirmed speakers include (as of Mar 23; the list is still growing and updates will be made on event website with link below):
Featured Speakers and Discussants: Arthur Dempster (Harvard); Andrew Gelman (Columbia); Deborah Mayo (Virginia Tech);
Nancy Reid (Toronto); Susanna Rinard (Harvard); Christian Robert (Paris-Dauphine/Warwick); Teddy Seidenfeld (CMU); Glenn Shafer (Rutgers); Stephen Stigler (Chicago); Sandy Zabell (Northwestern)
Invited Speakers and Panelists: Jim Berger (Duke); Emery Brown (MIT/MGH); Larry Brown (Wharton); David Cox (Oxford;
remote participation); Paul Edlefsen (Hutch); Don Fraser (Toronto); Mark Girolami (Warwick); Jan Hannig (UNC); Alfred Hero (Michigan); Nils Hjort (Oslo); Regina Liu (Rutgers); Ryan Martin (NC State); James Robins (Harvard); Donald B. Rubin (Harvard); Peter
XK Song (Michigan); Gunnar Taraldsen (NUST); Vladmir Vovk (London); Nanny Wermuth (Gothenburg); Min-ge Xie (Rutgers)
Note: registration is required except for all speakers. Registration fee includes ticket to banquet. Early-bird registration ends Apr 18.
We welcome participants to submit to the poster presentation. Please click
here to submit a poster abstract (deadline also Apr 18).
Visit the BFF4 website for information and most recent updates, including
the growing list of speakers, workshop program, local directions and contact. Please email bff4info@gmail.com if you have any questions. We appreciate you forward the announcement to anyone who might be interested!