Topic: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Develop Bayesian analyses of biological data from prior specification and posterior estimation to computational diagnostics and multimodal integration. Practical work covers conjugate and non-conjugate models, Gibbs and Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, convergence checks, hierarchical regression, regularisation and variational inference. Later sessions compare data-fusion strategies and Bayesian factor models while quantifying uncertainty in integrated biomedical datasets. Sessions: 30 November–4 December, 14:00–18:00 daily, Europe/Berlin (CET, UTC+01:00), with Slack discussion between meetings. Liv

Over the past decade we have demonstrated that the fusion of subject-specific structural information of the human brain with mathematical dynamic models allows building biologically realistic brain network models, which have a predictive value, beyond the explanatory power of each approach independently. The network nodes hold neural population models, which are derived using mean field techniques from statistical physics expressing ensemble activity via collective variables. Our hybrid approach fuses data-driven with forward-modeling-based techniques and has been successfully applied to expla

Over the past decade we have demonstrated that the fusion of subject-specific structural information of the human brain with mathematical dynamic models allows building biologically realistic brain network models, which have a predictive value, beyond the explanatory power of each approach independently. The network nodes hold neural population models, which are derived using mean field techniques from statistical physics expressing ensemble activity via collective variables. Our hybrid approach fuses data-driven with forward-modeling-based techniques and has been successfully applied to expla