Are women under-represented in Nobel Prize awards?

We're very excited to announce the next meetup on probabilistic programming. This time we will have Per Lunnemann Hansen (Blackwood Seven) present his use of Bayesian Hierarchical Modelling to examine whether there is a gender bias in the awarding of the Nobel Prize in scientific and economic categories (joint work with Mogens Jensen and Liselotte Jaufred from UCPH). They rely on Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for inference, which is available in most packages for probabilistic programming like Pyro, pyMC3 and Stan.

MIT review of their paper: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612349/how-gender-bias-influences-nobel-prizes

PLAN

• 18:30 open doors
• 18:45 Start of Per's talk
• 19:30 General Q&A on prob. prog. with organizers and networking

Please RSVP!