ABACO26
Workshop on Advances in BAyesian COmputation and modeling
Padova, February 6th 2026
The workshop will be held at the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova, room Benvenuti.
Address: Via Cesare Battisti, 241 35121 Padova PD, Italy [maps] (first floor)
The workshop admits a restricted number of participants; registration is available at this [link]
📅 Workshop Program
Subject to minor adjustments
| 09:00 | Opening | ||
| 09:05 | Morning Session | Augusto Fasano | Filtering procedures for dynamic multinomial probit models |
| Virginia Murru | Variational Inference for Count Response Semiparametric Regression | ||
| Giovanni Rebaudo | Multivariate species sampling models | ||
| Emanuele Aliverti | Approximate Inference for Cumulative Probit Regression | ||
| 11:15 | ☕ Coffee Break | ||
| 11:45 | Morning Keynote | Giacomo Zanella | A fast non-reversible sampler for mixture models |
| 12:45 | 🍴 Lunch | ||
| 14:00 | Afternoon Session | Beatrice Franzolini | Complexity Bounds for Dirichlet Process Slice Samplers |
| Matteo Gasparin | TBA | ||
| Pierfrancesco Alaimo Di Loro | A Hierarchical Bayesian Prior for Arbitrarily Sparse Precision Matrices | ||
| Tommaso Rigon | Nonparametric predictive inference for discrete data via Metropolis-adjusted Dirichlet sequences | ||
| 16:10 | ☕ Coffee Break | ||
| 16:40 | Afternoon Keynote | Roberto Casarin | Compressed Bayesian Tensor Regression |
| 17:40 | Closing Remarks |