Stan Conference 2017

Michael Betancourt (Columbia University), Tamara Broderick (MIT), Jonah Gabry (Columbia University), Andrew Gelman (Columbia University), Ben Goodrich (Columbia University), Daniel Lee (Columbia University), Eric Novik (Stan Group Inc), Lizze Wolkovich (Harvard University)

Stan Conference Organizing Committee

Saturday, January 21, 2017 9 am - 5 pm
Early Registration (by 12/20/2016):
This includes light breakfast, coffee, lunch, and some swag.
Late Registration (on or after 12/21/2016):
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<LI>Student: $75</LI>
<LI>Academic: $150</LI>
<LI>Industry: $300 </LI>
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This includes light breakfast, coffee and lunch. Probably won’t get swag.
On-site Registration (on 1/21/2017; cash or through Eventbrite)
If StanCon isn't sold out:
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<LI>$400</LI>
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This includes light breakfast, coffee and lunch. No swag.
 
Registrants will receive a code for 15% off the training courses:
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<LI><A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/introduction-to-bayesian-inference-with-stan-tickets-28642976915" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Intro to Bayesian inference in Stan</A> </LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stan-for-finance-and-econometrics-tickets-28643398175" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Stan for Finance and Econometrics</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stan-for-pharmacometrics-tickets-28643399178" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Stan for Pharmacometrics</A></LI>
<LI><A HREF="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/advanced-stan-programming-debugging-optimizing-tickets-28643400181" TARGET="_blank" REL="noopener noreferrer">Advanced Stan: Programming, Debugging, Optimization</A></LI>
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Contributed talks:
The contributed talks at StanCon are based on interactive, self-contained notebooks, such as knitr or Jupyter, and will take the place of proceedings. These will be made available after StanCon.
Schedule (See the <A HREF="http://mc-stan.org/events/stancon#schedule" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">StanCon webpage</A> for a friendlier schedule view.)
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7:30 AM - 8:45 AM Registration and breakfast
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8:45 AM - 9:00 AM Opening statements
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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Dev talk     Andrew Gelman:     "10 Things I Hate About Stan"
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10:00 AM - 10:30 AM Coffee
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10:30 AM - 12:00 PM Contributed talks     1. Jonathan Auerbach, Rob Trangucci:         "Twelve Cities: Does lowering speed limits save pedestrian lives?"     2. Milad Kharratzadeh:         "Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of the English Premier League"     3. Victor Lei, Nathan Sanders, Abigail Dawson:         "Advertising Attribution Modeling in the Movie Industry"     4. Woo-Young Ahn, Nate Haines, Lei Zhang:         "hBayesDM: Hierarchical Bayesian modeling of decision-making tasks"     5. Charles Margossian, Bill Gillespie:         "Differential Equation Based Models in Stan"
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12:00 PM - 1:15 PM Lunch
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1:15 PM - 2:15 PM Dev talk     Michael Betancourt:     "Everything You Should Have Learned About Markov Chain Monte Carlo”
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2:15 PM - 2:30 PM Stretch break
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2:30 PM - 3:45 PM Contributed talks     1. Teddy Groves:         "How to Test IRT Models Using Simulated Data"     2. Bruno Nicenboim, Shravan Vasishth:         "Models of Retrieval in Sentence Comprehension"     3. Rob Trangucci:         "Hierarchical Gaussian Processes in Stan"     4. Nathan Sanders, Victor Lei:         "Modeling the Rate of Public Mass Shootings with Gaussian Processes"
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3:45 PM - 4:45 PM Mingling and coffee
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4:45 PM - 5:40 PM Q&A Panel
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5:40 PM - 6:00 PM Closing remarks     Bob Carpenter:     "Where is Stan Going Next?" 
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For anyone interested, we will be heading to a bar / restaurant immediately after StanCon.
Sponsors
Thanks to our wonderful sponsors for making StanCon 2017 happen!
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Support Stan!
If you'd like to contribute to Stan with financial support, feel free to send a donation through NumFOCUS, a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit. <A TARGET="_blank" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">http://mc-stan.org/support/</A>
 
FAQs
 
Where can I contact the organizer with any questions?
Please email stancon@mc-stan.org.
 
Where do I get a discount code for the training courses?
It'll come with your registration. If you don't see it, please email stancon@mc-stan.org.

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