BayesAI is a workshop on probabilistic and Bayesian aspects of artificial intelligence to be held at Lancaster University from midday Monday, 23 September to midday Thursday, 26 September.

The workshop seeks to catalyse research at the interface of Bayesian statistics and artificial intelligence. Themes include:

• Generative modeling.
• Physics-informed machine learning models.
• Monte Carlo methods in machine learning.
• Applications of the above.

Call for submissions: We invite participants to submit posters for the evening session on Monday, 23 September. See the registration form for more details.

The registration deadline is 7th September.

Schedule

Planned events include:

• Invited talks in morning and afternoon sessions.
• A poster session on Monday, 23 September.
• A workshop dinner on Wednesday, 25 September.

Below is the draft programme.

Time	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday
9am - 9.40am	/	Vincent Dutordoir	Katerina Karoni	Hao Ni
9.50am - 10.30am	/	Sam Power	Mark Van Der Wilk	Henry Moss
10.30am - 11am	/	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break
11am - 11.40am	/	Angus Phillips	Omar Rivasplata	Theo Damoulas
11.50am - 12.20pm	Registration and Welcome Address	Samuel Kaski	Theresa Smith	Richard Turner
12.30pm - 1.30pm	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch	Lunch
1.40pm - 2.20pm	Sid Jaggi	Ciara Pike-Burke	Jared Tanner	/
2.30pm - 3.10pm	Kate Smith Miles	Arthur Gretton	Thomas Pinder	/
3.10pm - 3.40pm	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	Coffee Break	/
3.40pm - 4.10pm	Chris Oates	Jonas Latz	Daniela De Angelis	/
4.20pm - 5pm	Jose Miguel Hernandez-Loboto	Nikolas Nusken	Andrew Duncan	/

Confirmed speakers:

• Theo Damoulas (Warwick)
• Daniela De Angelis (Cambridge)
• Andrew Duncan (Imperial)
• Vincent Dutordoir (DeepMind)
• Arthur Gretton (UCL)
• José Miguel Hernández-Lobato (Cambridge)
• Sidharth Jaggi (Bristol)
• Katerina Karoni (Edinburgh)
• Samuel Kaski (Manchester)
• Jonas Latz (Manchester)
• Henry Moss (Cambridge)
• Hao Ni (UCL)
• Nikolas Nüsken (KCL)
• Chris Oates (Newcastle)
• Angus Phillips (Oxford)
• Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial)
• Sam Power (Bristol)
• Omar Rivasplata (Manchester)
• Theresa Smith (Bath)
• Kate Smith-Miles (Melbourne)
• Jared Tanner (Oxford)
• Mark van der Wilk (Oxford)

Register for the workshop here. The registration deadline is 7th September.

Participation is subsidized for members of Lancaster University and Prob_AI.

The registration fee for other participants can be found below. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Registration	£82.5
Workshop dinner (Wednesday 25 September)	£35

Organizers

BayesAI is supported and co-organized by the Prob_AI Hub and the STOR-i CDT.

Prob_AI Hub

• Paul Fearnhead
• Dan Dodd

STOR-i CDT

• Tamás P. Papp
• Thomas Newman
• Rui-Yang Zhang

Location

Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YX

• Lecture Theatre 1 — 23, 24 and 26 September.
• Lecture Theatre 17 — 25 September.

Directions can be found below:


The LUMS building layout can be found below:

Accommodation

Accommodation is available on the Lancaster University campus:

• Lancaster House Hotel.
• Lancaster University Guest Bedrooms.

Accommodation is also available around Lancaster city centre, a 20-minute bus ride away from campus.

Queries

For any queries relating to the workshop please contact probaihub@lancaster.ac.uk