Schedule (subject to change!)

Meeting Notes Topics Homework (out) Homework (due)
Jan 6 Overview, motivation. Forward simulation: brownian motion, CTMCs Exercise 1
Jan 8 Forward simulation continued. Motivations for Bayesian nonparametrics.
Jan 13 Background: parametric Bayesian statistics
Jan 15 Dirichlet process: properties and extensions Exercise 1
Jan 17 Exercise 2
Jan 20 Inference 1
Jan 22 Topics in Bayesian non-parametrics
Jan 24 Exercise 2
Jan 27 Inference 2
Jan 28 Exercise 3
Jan 29 Point processes
Feb 03 Point processes
Feb 05 Jump processes
Feb 07 Jump processes
Feb 10 Statutory holiday
Feb 11 Exercise 3
Feb 12 Diffusions.
Feb 17 Reading Break
Feb 19 Reading Break
Mar 5 Exercise 4
Mar 20 Exercise 4
Apr 20 Final project