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Pierre Alquier

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Professor of Statistics @ ESSEC Business School Asia-Pacific campus Singapore 🇸🇬 https://pierrealquier.github.io/ Previously: RIKEN AIP 🇯🇵 ENSAE Paris 🇫🇷 🇪🇺 UCD Dublin 🇮🇪 🇪🇺 Random posts about stats/maths/ML/AI, poor jokes & birds photo 🌈

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 6h

Truly a fantastic line-up of speakers! Also: poster session (most likely involving gelato), reception, networking, Q&A: sites.google.com/view/celebra...

All that on the (beautiful) #USyd campus, in summery December, just before FOCS! #TCSSky

Confirmed Speakers
(Inspirational and Rising Stars)
Prof. Shafi Goldwasser (MIT)
Prof. Meena Mahajan (Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai)
Ioana-Oriana Bercea (KTH)
Lorenzo Ciardo (Oxford University)
Jane Lange (MIT)
Yihui Quek (EPFL)
Santhoshini Velusamy (TTIC to University of Waterloo)
Hanzhi Wang (BARC to U Melbourne)

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Clément Canonne @ccanonne.github.io · 6h

Attending #FOCS2025, or Theoretical CS (or adjacent) student in Australasia 🌏? On Dec 11-13, at #USyd, we will have a "Celebration of Theoretical CS" mentoring+research workshop. Amazing speakers, poster session, hike!

Free to attend (but registration is necessary): sites.google.com/view/celebra...

FOCS 2025 Satellite Event: Celebration of TCS

sites.google.com

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 16m

To claim to become PM with 20 seats out of a few hundreds, without making a coalition, is exactly the strategy of most parties in France at the moment 😅

Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 17m

It seems so :)

But Tamaki's statement is hard to understand. His party has 27 seats, he says "I'm ready to be prime minister" but he rejects coalitions not only with LDP (196 seats) but also CDP (148 seats) and discusses only with Komeito (24 seats). He needs to learn basic calculus?

Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 6h

Common flameback (girl) @ Punggol park #birds

Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 8h

Update: I have to apologize, I was completely wrong. DPFP rejects the offer of the CDP, Japanese politicians are not so different from French politicians after all 😅

www.asahi.com/sp/articles/...

国民民主・玉木氏「現在の立憲とは組めない」　公明には協議呼びかけ：朝日新聞

国民民主党の玉木雄一郎代表は11日、臨時国会での首相指名選挙への対応について「現在の立憲民主党とは組めない」と語った。安全保障やエネルギー政策など基本政策の違いを理由に挙げた。立憲が野党候補の一本化…

www.asahi.com

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arxiv math.ST @arxiv-math-st.bsky.social · 6d

Terje Mildner, Paris Giampouras, Theodoros Damoulas
Rates of Convergence of Generalised Variational Inference Posteriors under Prior Misspecification
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03109

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EURO @euroonline.bsky.social · 1d

IPCO 2026 – 27th Conference on Integer Programming & Combinatorial Optimization, Jun 17–19, 2026, Padova, Italy.

The conference is a premier forum for researchers & practitioners working on various aspects of IP & combinatorial optimization.

events.math.unipd.it/ipco2026/

Deadline: Oct 31, 2025

IPCO 2026 - The 27th Conference on Integer Programming and Combinatorial Optimization | IPCO 2026

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humphreyshi.bsky.social @humphreyshi.bsky.social · 2d

CVPR 2026 Workshop Call is officially open! 🎉

📅 Deadline: Nov 3, 2025
cvpr.thecvf.com/Conferences/...

We expect to host over 100 workshops this year — and this is where the next breakthroughs begin. 🚀

With Mei Chen,Erik Blasch,Brian Clipp,Sharon Huang,Andreas Savakis @cvprconference.bsky.social

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Grand Labo @grandlabo.com · 1d

« Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine this century, less than 70% hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. »

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

More than 30% of this century’s science Nobel prizewinners immigrated: see their journeys

The most common destination for eventual Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and medicine since 2000 is the United States, Nature has found.

www.nature.com

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

You too!

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EURO @euroonline.bsky.social · 1d

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION XXI Summer School in Discrete Mathematics, Viña del Mar, Chile. January 5-9, 2026. Application deadline: October 17, 2025.
eventos.cmm.uchile.cl/discretas2026/

XXI Escuela de Verano en Matemáticas Discretas | 5 al 9 de enero, 2026

eventos.cmm.uchile.cl

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Gaël Varoquaux @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social · 1d

A speech about what drives me, how science and open source are bitter victories, unable to make improve the world if society does not embrace them for the better:
gael-varoquaux.info/personnal/a-...

A national recognition; but science and open source are bitter victories

I have recently been awarded France’s national order of merit, for my career, in science, in open source, and around AI. The speech that I gave carries messages important to me (French below;...

gael-varoquaux.info

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𝕍alérie ℝ. 🔆🌋🪄🐿️ @valrobert974.bsky.social · 1d

Webinaire de présentation organisé par l'Insee à propos de la compétition européenne de statistique !

www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAgq...

REPLAY - Webinaire Compétition européenne de statistiques - édition 2026

YouTube video by Insee Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

What I'm shocked by is that, in France, no party currently has even half the weight of CDP in Japan, and yet, no party is ready to make any concessions. That, I give my opinion on: guys, when you have 10% of the seats in the parliament, you can't make a coalition where you decide everything 🫥

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Note: this is not a judgement on the policies proposed by these parties. I have my opinions and I am certainly shocked by Takaichi's xenophobic views, but I'm not a Japanese voter, so I will keep my probably insufficiently informed views for myself.

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Interesting. The CDP (148 seats) offering to support the candidate of the DPFP (only 27) to avoid a prime minister (Sanae Takaichi) they both absolutely don't want is exactly what all parties in France are currently incapable of: putting the country before the party.

asia.nikkei.com/politics/jap...

Japan's main opposition weighs unified PM candidate to block Takaichi

Komeito exit from ruling LDP-led coalition creates 'one-in-a-decade chance,' says leader Noda

asia.nikkei.com

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks, but unfortunately, I already registered for a workshop in Marseille at that time. At @cirm-math.bsky.social

I won't miss the bouillabaisse.

But hopefully in 2026!

Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Oh wow, white-faced heron. It is so beautiful.

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I should attend more conferences in Australia 😅

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Haha true. For some reason, these swallows always look "angry". However, I read swallows are faithful partners, they keep the same partner for life 😊

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Two Pacific swallows @ Punggol park #birds

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Ces couleurs !

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Pierre Alquier @pierrealquier.bsky.social · 1d

Et elle étudie les oiseaux, en plus 🤩 félicitations à elle!!!

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𝕍alérie ℝ. 🔆🌋🪄🐿️ @valrobert974.bsky.social · 2d

Merlène Saunier, chercheuse réunionnaise, reçoit Prix Jeunes Talents L’Oréal-UNESCO Pour les Femmes et la Science 2025 !

www.linfo.re/la-reunion/s...

Merlène Saunier, scientifique réunionnaise étudie les pailles-en-queue à bec jaune de l’île Europa

Merlène Saunier, réunionnaise, a été récompensée pour son étude sur les pailles-en-queue à bec jaune de l’île Europa. La jeune femme a reçu le prix jeune talent du programme Loréal UNESCO qui met à l’...

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