…. and good news: the proposal deadline for StanCon 2023 has been extended to **April 30th**. We are mostly looking for proposals for talks, themed sessions, and posters:

We are interested in a broad range of topics relevant to the Stan community, including:

– Applications of Bayesian statistics using Stan in all domains

– Software development to support or complement the Stan ecosystem

– Methods for Bayesian modeling, relevant to a broad range of users

– Theoretical insights on common Bayesian methods and models

– Visualization techniques

– Tools for teaching Bayesian modeling.

Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis. Several talks have already been accepted and added to the schedule, and I’m very excited about the speakers we have so far! Topics include: applications of Stan in numerous fields (healthcare, econometrics, pharmacometrics, ….), interfacing Stan with custom inference algorithms, advances in Bayesian methodology, visualisation and monitoring of MCMC while the Markov chains are running, discussions on Stan/Torsten and Turing.jl and more.

(and this does not include some of the exciting submissions we’ve recently received, although I can’t comment too much…)

There are also some wonderful tutorials lined up. I want to emphasize that a lot of the expertise the community uses to answer questions on the stan forum (https://discourse.mc-stan.org/) is taught during these tutorials.

Here’s a link to the event page https://mc-stan.org/events/stancon2023/ and as always, questions can be addressed to [email protected].

Happy weekend everyone!