ABCruise

Information

The 'ABC-in-' series of international workshops (Sydney, Rome, London, Paris) on approximate Bayesian computation (ABC) and related methods continues, this time on a cruise in between Helsinki and Stockholm from Monday 16th to Wednesday 18th of May 2016.

If you would like to contact us, please send email to abcinhelsinki@gmail.com or any of the organizers.

Confirmed speakers

• Laurent Calvet
• Caroline Colijn
• Richard Everitt
• Clara Grazian
• Michael Gutmann
• Robert Kohn
• Jean-Michel Marin
• Ted Meeds
• Thomas Schön
• Julien Stoehr
• Aki Vehtari
• Richard Wilkinson

Traveling instructions

• Fly to Helsinki on Monday morning, leave on Wednesday evening.
• The workshop will start at noon.
• The cruise is on Silja Symphony of Tallink Silja Line.
• "Good to know" instructions about the cruise
• Departure from Helsinki Olympia Terminal 16th May at 5 pm local time
• Arrival to Helsinki Olympia Terminal 18th May at 10 am local time
• One hour from the harbour to the airport by public transportation.

Registration and cost

Registration is closed. The cost per person is

• 250 € in a private cabin,
• 200 € in a shared cabin,

which includes the cruise, meeting, and all meals except lunch on the day in Stockholm. All cabins have a sea view!

Scientific committee

Jukka Corander, Samuel Kaski, Christian Robert, Ritabrata Dutta, Michael Gutmann.

Local organizers

Jukka Corander, Samuel Kaski, Ritabrata Dutta, Michael Gutmann, Jarno Lintusaari.

Organizing institutions

• Helsinki Institute for Information Technology HIIT
• The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Computational Inference Research (COIN)
• University of Helsinki
• Aalto University