The 27th Summer Working Group on Model-Based Clustering will be held in Athens (Greece) from October 25th to 30th, 2021. It will start with an opening social event on Sunday, sessions in the aftrenoons Monday-Thursday, Friday morning and a hike on the Saturday.
The scientific committee consists this year of Charles Bouveyron, Gilles Celeux, Bettina Grün, Dimitris Karlis Brendan Murphy, Rebecca Nugent, Adrian Raftery and Luca Scrucca.Information about venue and local accomodations are available here: http://www2.stat-athens.aueb.gr/~mbc2021/.
Note: Starting from this year, the long talks will be 50 mins + 30 min of discussion, and the short talks will be 15 min + 10 min of discussion. The time schedule has been updated to take into consideration this new format.
| Day | Time | Speaker | Title |
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Monday (C. Bouveyron) | 2:30pm - 3:50pm | Daniel Sewell | Clustering connections: Model-based edge clustering |
| 4:30pm - 6:00pm | Marianthi Markatou | Poisson Kernel-Based Clustering on the Sphere: Convergence Properties, Identifiability and a Method of Sampling | |
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Tuesday (A. Raftery) | 10:30am - 12:30am | Poster session | |
| 2:30pm - 3:50pm | Angela Montanari | Random projections of variables and units | |
| 4:20pm - 4:45pm | Brendan Murphy | Parsimonious Bayesian Factor Analysis for modelling latent structures in spectroscopy data | |
| 4:45pm - 5:10pm | Charles Bouveyron | Bayesian Fisher-EM for discriminative subspace clustering | |
| 5:10pm - 5:35pm | Luca Scrucca | Stacking ensemble of Gaussian mixtures for classification | |
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Wednesday (L. Scrucca) | 10:30am - 12:30am | Software session | |
| 2:30pm - 3:50pm | Christine Keribin | Frugal Gaussian clustering of huge imbalanced datasets through a bin-marginal approach | |
| 4:20pm - 4:45pm | Bettina Grun | Generalized mixtures of finite mixtures and telescoping sampling | |
| 4:45pm - 5:10pm | Antonio Canale | Escaping the curse of dimensionality in model-based clustering | |
| 5:10pm - 5:35pm | Pierre Latouche | Model based greedy clustering | |
| 5:35pm - 6:00pm | Adrian Raftery | Probabilistic Arctic Sea-Ice Forecasting with the Mixture Contour Forecasting Model | |
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Thursday (B. Grün) | 2:30pm - 3:50pm | Rebecca Nugent | TBA |
| 4:20pm - 4:45pm | Panagiotis Papastamoulis | Model-based clustering of replicated multinomial data | |
| 4:45pm - 5:10pm | Dimitris Karlis | Bayesian Approach for Clustering Skewed Data Using Mixtures of Multivariate Normal-Inverse Gaussian Distributions | |
| 5:10pm - 5:35pm | Claire Gormley | Clustering Longitudinal Life-Course Sequences using Mixtures of Exponential-Distance Models | |
| 5:35pm - 6:00pm | Pierre-Alexandre Mattei | Deep discriminative clustering and generalised mutual information | |
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Friday (D. Karlis) | 9:00am - 10:20am | Daniel Ahfock | Model based approaches to semi-supervised learning |
| 11:00am - 12:20am | Fritz Leisch | Assessing Stability and Relations of Mixture Model Components | |
Last updated Sept., 13, 2021.