Quantitative Life Sciences Guest Seminar - Wed. 8 March at 11:00

[Quantitative Life Sciences]

*Quantitative Life Sciences Guest Seminar *

Wednesday 8 March at 11:00 am
ICTP, Central Area, 2nd floor, old SISSA building

Title: "Hierarchical Bayesian modelling of volatile environments"

Speaker: Chris Mathys  - SISSA, Trieste

Abstract:
While Bayesian inference on static quantities is widespread and has 
become standard in many contexts, Bayesian inference in volatile 
environments presents an additional set of challenges. These arise when 
inferring the continually changing states of an agent’s environment. To 
make accurate predictions about future observations, such an agent needs 
to model how states change. I will set out these challenges in detail 
and introduce recently developed methods for meeting them. In 
particular, I will go into the Hierarchical Gaussian Filter (HGF), a 
generic hierarchical model of inference on volatile and uncertain 
states. In this context, I will also give examples of neuroscientific 
studies where the HGF was used.

Web page: http://indico.ictp.it/event/8181/

You are all warmly invited to attend!

-- 
Erica Sarnataro
Group Secretary
Quantitative Life Sciences
The Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP)
Trieste,  Italy
Tel. +39-040-2240623
e-mail: qls at ictp.it