From Berkeley

Ciao Ragazzi!
After my first week in Berkeley, I finally can write something on the blog!

Everithing is fine, I had a little trip in California with my girlfriend, and now I'm ready to start my project here!

My advisor here (Sandrine) already gave me a project to work on, even if I don't have access to the data for now... Here everything is pretty organized, I think I will have most of the day busy with classes, seminars and group meetings, so I'll have to work late I guess...

You cannot imagine how big is the University here, the campus is huge (with wifi connection everywhere!) and the Department of Statistics is a 10 floors building... I think there are something like 2,000 visiting phd students/postdoc for this semester... (not all in statistics... :) )

So it seems like a very exciting place to do research...
Ah! My project will be in collaboration with Stanford, so I guess I cannot complain... I hope to make some good contact too!

I don't know if you know it (i didn't) but the most important "monument" of the campus is The Campanile which is a (bad) copy of the Campanile di San Marco in Venice... but not all of the people know that... anyway, this is the comparison.. (and that awful building behind is the dept of stat!)

Hope to hear from you soon!
davide

I'M BACK IN BELGIUM

Ciao guys!

How're you? I'm back in belgium since monday, deep sadness, holydays are finished... I relaxed a lot during these 10 days, drove a lot as well (5 countries and almost 5000 Km in 10 days, poor ford focus...). I'm already back to work, trying to use in the best way my last 2 months here.

I have to admit, anyway, that I don't want to go back to Italy. Don't want to leave this place for many reasons, related both to work and social life... Tony is it the same for you too? I don't know... I'm seriously thinking about trying to find a postdoc position abroad after the phd, you Tony? Sorry guys, I ask tony because he's the only one among you who is living this experience abroad right now...

Ciao, I miss you all


Checca


P.S.: I confirm, kg gained since I'm in Belgium... 10... ups...

Ciao John

Last week died one of the greatest statistician, John Ashworth Nelder father (with the already gone, Wedderburn) of the GLM.

http://www.vsni.co.uk/featured/john-nelder/

Palestinian Conference on Modern Trends in Mathematics and Physics II

This is from Nablus, An-Najah National University, Palestinian Conference on Modern Trends in Mathematics and Physics II

"Basta Marlies"

Marlies, please, I remember you the title and the aim of this blog: "XXIV cycle in Statistics - To keep in touch about academic and personal life of the XXIV cycle PhD students".
Your last posts are totally useless and upsetting (that's why I used that bad language!). Image of "sweety-heart-on-sunset", of the Piave river, of trainers with stupid words, cats, Erman Hesse and 1957 Sanremo's hits are absolutely not allowed any more!

Please write about you, about your research, seminars and so on. Not about stupid stuff!

Te vojo ben, tranquia, ma moeghea!

Frase illuminante

L'uomo non è un animale razionale ma un animale che razionalizza.

Robert A.Heinlein


Non è una frase sconvolgente e illuminante?

Sorry monjed,

Man is not a rational animal, but an animal which rationalizes (I do not know if it is the right translation...)

Buone vacanze a tutti, vi voglio bene

Bayesian girls

La cosa interessante e` che il tizio che canta e` David Banks... un personaggio anche solo quando passa per i corridoi!

Parole sante: Positive regard

Just to recall 6 even greater statisticians

From left to right Riccardo de Bin (before Bayesian conversion), Antonio Canale (some hairs before), Nicola Lunardon (before absuming hormones and anabolic), Francesca Solmi (several Kilos ago!), Davide Risso (before Mac era) and Monjed H. Samuh (before becoming a Pesarin man).

Just to recall you an old post

Now, look: Cox, Reid, Fraser and Mc Cullagh.

the main statistician of the world (missed only Ole and that dishonest, immoral man of Severini, which I surely want to see with my eyes to tell him he discovered an unpracticable likelihood modification). Now, the two persons in the middle (Nancy and Don) are just waiting for me up to 50 years in this photo. So, now the time is coming...Urrà!

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Nooooooooooooooooooooooo, voi non sapete neanche, non immaginate neanche, non avete ideaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Assieme a Nancy Reid, il mio co-supervisore èèèèèèèèèè
Dooooon Fraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer
Non ci posso credere! Mi seguono in 2, non è fantastico?

Che persone meravigliose, come i veneti:)

Bustra's nightmare: Bernardo's simulations

There are Bernardo's simulations running on my pc from last week! Dchure sucks...
:-)

Holy Land: Sacra Patria Veneta

Now I am returning. I am so sorry I did not bring my camera, but the other collegues will send me the photos they said. Oh, Checca you do not imagine I have been so lucky because I met a young professor in Economics which teaches in Montreal and he has a lot of Italian friends in Toronto, so now I can just have some contacts. He said that Canada is much more similar to Veneto than to Rome, but this is true generally for the freanch part, not for mine.

Anyhow, I want to say to all of you that there exiusts the Paradise here on Earth: his name is Veneto.

Rome

Ciao! Rome is wonderful, and also researcher for all part of the world are, I am spanding a great time here...most of all I like the piece of garden outside the colosseo, it is so quite and peaceful. Today I go to Flaminia's home in periferia...the only problem of Rome are Romans! I never seen such unpoliteness!! It is totally unaceptable, I was hitting a man yesterday with my sun umbrella, because he was really unpolite. Roman people totally lack of "senso civico". Our Veneto is a great place to live, I will never complain anymore about Mestre...
See you soon, hope all are well.
Marlies