StanCon 2018 Helsinki, 29-31 August 2018

StanCon 2018 Asilomar was so much fun that we are organizing StanCon 2018 Helsinki August 29-31, 2018 at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland (location chosen using antithetic sampling).

Full information is available at StanCon 2018 Helsinki website

Summary of the information

What: One day of tutorials and two days of talks, open discussions, and statistical modeling in beautiful Helsinki.

When: August 29-31, 2018

Where: Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

Invited speakers

• Richard McElreath, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
• Maggie Lieu, European Space Astronomy Centre
• Sarah Heaps, Newcastle University
• Daniel Simpson, University of Toronto

Call for contributed talks

StanCon’s version of conference proceedings is a collection of contributed talks based on interactive, self-contained notebooks (e.g., knitr, R Markdown, Jupyter, etc.). For example, you might demonstrate a novel modeling technique, or (possibly simplified version of) a novel application, etc. There is no minimum or maximum length and anyone using Stan is welcome to submit a contributed talk.

More details are available on the StanCon submissions web page and examples of accepted submissions from StanCon 2017 are available in our stancon_talks repository on GitHub.

Contributed posters

We will accept poster submissions on a rolling basis until July 31st. One page exclusive of references is the desired format but anything that gives us enough information to make a decision is fine. See the conference web page for submission instructions.

Sponsors

• Generable
• Reaktor
• Amazon
• Finnish Center for Artificial Intelligence
• Aalto University

If you’re interested in sponsoring StanCon 2018 Helsinki, please reach out to stancon2018helsinki@mc-stan.org. Your generous contributions will ensure that our registration costs are kept as low as possible and allow for us to subsidize attendance for students who would otherwise be unable to come.

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