Wednesday 20 October

Session 1

BST EDT PDT Activity

15:30

10:30

7:30

Arrival and networking

16:00

11:00

8:00

Welcome: Lawrence Murray & Guy Van den Broeck

16:10

11:10

8:10

Keynote: Katie Bouman (Caltech)

Beyond the First Portrait of a Black Hole

16:50

11:50

8:50

Contributed Talk: Guillaume Baudart (Inria Paris, École normale supérieure - PSL University)

Automatic Guide Generation for Stan via NumPyro

17:10

12:10

9:10

Contributed Talk: Sam Witty (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Causal Probabilistic Programming Without Tears

17:30

12:30

9:30

Contributed Talk: Feras Saad (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

SPPL: Probabilistic Programming with Fast Exact Symbolic Inference

17:50

12:50

9:50

End

Session 2

BST EDT PDT Activity

18:30

13:30

10:30

Arrival and networking

18:45

13:45

10:45

Industry Panel: Impact of Probabilistic Programming

Katie Bouman (Caltech), Bob Carpenter (Flatiron), Brian Patton (Google), Omesh Tickoo (Intel), Michael Tingley (Facebook), John Winn (MSR), Veronica Weiner (MIT, moderator) [panelist bios]

19:45

14:45

11:45

Posters/Networking

21:15

16:15

13:15

End

Thursday 21 October

Session 3

BST EDT PDT Activity

12:30

7:30

4:30

Arrival and networking

13:00

8:00

5:00

Invited Talk: Nicolas Chopin (ENSAE Paris)

Probabilistic programming for Sequential Monte Carlo?

13:20

8:20

5:20

Invited Talk: Leah South (Queensland University of Technology)

Unbiased and Consistent Nested Sampling via Sequential Monte Carlo

13:40

8:40

5:40

Keynote: John Winn (Microsoft Research)

Getting All The Facts: Automated Knowledge Base Construction with a Probabilistic Program

14:20

9:20

6:20

Contributed Talk: Birthe Van den Berg (KU Leuven)

From Probabilistic NetKAT to ProbLog: New Algorithms for Inference and Learning in Probabilistic Networks

14:40

9:40

6:40

Contributed Talk: Vincent Dutordoir (University of Cambridge)

GPflux: A Library for Deep Gaussian Processes

15:00

10:00

7:00

Contributed Talk: Christian B Thygese (University of Copenhagen / Evaxion Biotech)

Efficient Generative Modelling of Protein StructureFragments using a Deep Markov Model

15:20

10:20

7:20

Short break and networking

15:30

10:30

7:30

Posters/Networking

17:00

12:00

9:00

End

Friday 22 October

Session 4

BST EDT PDT Activity

16:30

11:30

8:30

Arrival and networking

17:00

12:00

9:00

Keynote: Bob Carpenter (Flatiron Institute)

What do we need from a probabilistic programming language to support Bayesian workflow?

17:40

12:40

9:40

Contributed Talk: Dario M Stein (University of Oxford)

Compositional Semantics for Probabilistic Programs with Exact Conditioning

18:00

13:00

10:00

Contributed Talk: Carol Mak (University of Oxford)

Nonparametric Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

18:20

13:20

10:20

Contributed Talk: Yu-Hsi Cheng (University of California, Los Angeles)

flip-hoisting: A Probabilistic Program Optimization for Exact Inference

18:40

13:40

10:40

Invited Talk: Angelika Kimmig (KU Leuven)

Neural probabilistic logic programming

19:00

14:00

11:00

Contributed Talk: Hugo Paquet (University of Oxford)

Bayesian strategies: higher-order probabilistic programs as graphical models

19:20

14:20

11:20

Closing Remarks:

19:30

14:30

11:30

End