Schedule

Wednesday 24th August 2022

       Time              Speaker       Title
13:15 - 13:30   Workshop opening
13:30 - 14:15 Nicolas Durrande Practical connection between Sparse Gaussian Process and Neural Networks via inducing variable design.
14:30 - 15:15 Filip de Roos (online) High-Dimensional Gaussian Process Inference with Derivatives.
15:30 - 16:00   Break
16:00 - 16:45 Dominic Schuhmacher Convergence rates for geostatistical thinning of point processes based on Gaussian random fields.
17:00 - 17:30   Informal Discussions
19:00 - ………..   Workshop dinner at Lokal: Militärstrasse 42, 3014 Bern.

To access the restaurant, it is recommended to go to the train station and take the bus 9A (direction Wankdorf) until the stop Breitenrain, then walk 2 minutes.

Thursday 25th August 2022

       Time              Speaker       Title
09:00 - 09:45 Martin Outzem Berild Flexible covariance structures for three-dimensional Gaussian random fields.
10:00 - 10:30   Break
10:30 - 11:15 Marianne Abemgnigni Njifon A graph convolutional network for inference with spatial data.
11:30 - 12:15 Guillaume Pirot Can we parameterize geological conceptual models in a continuous space?
12:30 - ………..   Brainstorming pic-nic

Friday 26th August 2022

       Time              Speaker       Title
09:00 - 09:45 Victor Picheny Scaling up Bayesian optimisation with variational inference.
10:00 - 10:30   Break
10:30 - 11:15 Geir-Arne Fuglstad (online) Non-stationary Global Spatio-Temporal Modelling Using SPDEs.
11:30 - 12:15   Informal discussions and workshop closure