[ADMB Users] ADMB meeting in Reykjavik - Doodle Poll

[Arni Magnusson]

Dear friends,

The upcoming ADMB Developers' workshop in Reykjavik in September was
discussed a bit at the ADMB Foundation board meeting last week. There are
two other relevant conferences taking place in Reykjavik in the same
month:

12-14 Sep (Thu-Sat), LGM conference in Reykjavik
https://sites.google.com/site/lgm2013ice/

23-27 Sep (Mon-Fri), ICES conference in Reykjavik
http://ices.dk/news-and-events/asc/ASC-2013/Pages/default.aspx

Initially, we (Anders, Arni, Hans) scheduled the ADMB meeting 8-11
September, just prior to the LGM conference. Now that our LGM abstract has
been rejected, our focus is shifting to the ICES conference.

It seems likely that some ADMB-oriented people might attend the ICES
conference. To make it practical to visit Iceland and attend both the ADMB
and ICES events, we could shift the ADMB meeting to be just before or
after the ICES meeting.

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Therefore, I have set up a Doodle Poll:

http://doodle.com/dx5et3fe4dfp2d48

Please mark the days that you would _prefer_. If there are days you
_cannot_ make it, please email me so I can take that into account. Ignore
this poll if you don't plan to attend. Feel free to forward this email to
others.

At the end of the poll, we are looking for a 4-day slot for the ADMB
meeting.

The range between 17 Sep and 1 Oct would be practical for anyone planning
to attend both the ADMB and ICES events. If I'm the only one attending
both, there may be no practical reason to shift the ADMB meeting.

Let's finish this poll before Wednesday (19 June) and make a decision.

Looking forward to welcoming you to Iceland this autumn,

Arni

P.S. If you urgently need a reason to attend the ICES conference, I can
add you as a coauthor on a simple paper that's been accepted in Session Q
on Bayesian methods. Your contribution would be in the introduction and
discussion sections. This might help convince your employer about the need
to travel to Reykjavik this autumn.
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[Rubén Roa]

Hi,

FYI, the methods ICES working group (WGMG) is planning its annual meeting in Reykjavik just after the ICES meeting.

Ruben

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[Peter Stephenson]

Gary, look at the first name in the CC.
Should I being keeping in contact with him. Is he a high flyer. The CC group are pretty heavy hitters.
Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: users-...@admb-project.org [mailto:users-...@admb-project.org] On Behalf Of Arni Magnusson
Sent: Friday, 14 June 2013 5:07 AM
To: devel...@admb-project.org; us...@admb-project.org
Cc: Athol Whitten; Rishi Sharma; Andre Punt; Dave Fournier; Kasper Kristensen; Laurie Kell; Polina Levontin
Subject: [ADMB Users] ADMB meeting in Reykjavik - Doodle Poll

[Laurie Kell]

Well I would have forwarded it to Finlay if he hadnt deserted Lowestoft
for Italy!

Laurie
On 14/06/13 09:41, Laurie Kell wrote:
> I think this a really important meeting and I would have loved to
> attend. Unfortunately it clashes with our main Scientific meeting at ICCAT.
>
> I am forwarding this email to Finlay as he has started developing a
> tools based on Rcpp to help integrate ADMB and R.
>
> Laurie

[Mark Payne]

Have you considered having a users session on the side of the ASC - after all, there will be many of the ICES users there.... Wednesday afternoon is usually free for that sort of thing. And it might be nice for some of us non-developers to chat with you, hear future directions, and give feedback....

Mark
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Cc: Athol Whitten; Rishi Sharma; Andre Punt; Dave Fournier; Kasper Kristensen; Laurie Kell; Polina Levontin

Emne: [ADMB Users] ADMB meeting in Reykjavik - Doodle Poll

[dave fournier]

On 13-06-14 01:40 AM, Mark Payne wrote:


I wish that all the players could be encouraged to discuss future
directions BEFORE the actual meeting.
I think that is what the mail lists are for. There is not enough time
at a meeting to initiate a discussion on
any substantive issue and develop it to a useful level.

For example at the recent meeting Sibert and I presented some results on
multi-threading which indicate
that it can be useful enough for ADMB programs to justify serious
development efforts. Getting this together
required about 3 months of programming/discussion to prepare for the
meeting.

With regard to multi-threading, this looks interesting.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Intel-Xeon-Phi-Coprocessor-CPU,22700.html

Dave

[Richard Methot - NOAA Federal]

I support having a short session during ASC.

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[Laurie Kell]

I think this a really important meeting and I would have loved to
attend. Unfortunately it clashes with our main Scientific meeting at ICCAT.

I am forwarding this email to Finlay as he has started developing a
tools based on Rcpp to help integrate ADMB and R.

Laurie


On 13/06/13 23:08, Arni Magnusson wrote:

[Mark Maunder]

What is ASC?

[Laurie Kell]

multi-threading is something that I would like to be involved in, and I know of others who would be keen to collaborate.

Laurie

[bigA]

Just a follow up to what Dave suggested about things to talk about at the developer meeting.

I don't know how people feel about potentially adding limited read time plotting capability to admb. 

There are several c++ libraries that may make that not particularly difficult.  

I think the idea should be to provide simple line graphs and scatter plotting routines, not provide "publication" quality graphics.

http://gitorious.org/realtimeplot

I realize that realtimeplot is licensed under the GPL; if there is interest and it is needed I could try to find a good library that is BSD licensed.
Obviously there are things like KST that can partially solve this problem at the expense of having to write data to files. 

However, sometimes I think it would be cool to be able watch admb work.   

http://kst-plot.kde.org/

Aaron

[Ian Taylor - NOAA Federal]

Mark, 

ASC seems to be the ICES Annual Science Conference (Reykjavík, 23–27 September):

http://ices.dk/news-and-events/asc/ASC-2013/Pages/default.aspx

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Mark Maunder <mmau...@iattc.org> wrote:

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[dave fournier]

On 13-06-14 02:33 PM, bigA wrote:

I did this a long time ago using Java. That is why there are a bunch of java references in the code.
But Sun kept changing the JNI and breaking my code so I gave up on it. 

Another simple way to have real time graphics  is via a named pipe and using R for the graphics.  I did this
with Pierre Kleiber using S intead of R about 20 years ago on some kind of unix box.

[Ian Taylor - NOAA Federal]

What?!?

You aren't all satisfied spending hours staring at tables of gradients of transformed parameters moving across the screen? Or MCMC acceptance rates?

[dave fournier]

On 13-06-14 04:25 PM, Ian Taylor - NOAA Federal wrote:

Well I was, but this was for the unwashed at the American Statistical Society Meeting in Baltimore
where we sold $0 worth of software.  My wife came along as my keeper. We called it Ma and Pa
software (in our heads).

[dave fournier]

On 13-06-14 01:01 PM, Laurie Kell wrote:


I'm happy to collaborate, but how would it function. I only want to
do 90% of the work.

[Arni Magnusson]

The Developers' Workshop in Iceland has been shifted to:

18-22 September 2013 (Wed-Sun)

This is done to maximize our impact at the ICES conference starting on the
23rd. Details will unfold on:

http://admb-project.org/developers/workshop/reykjavik-2013

If you plan to attend, please send me an email, so we can start looking
into accommodation, etc.

Arni

P.S. Let me use the same email to mention that a new set of manuals (ADMB,
ADMB-RE, AUTODIF) are now available on
http://code.google.com/p/admb-project/downloads/list. The changes are
mainly cosmetic improvements, legible fonts etc.