Greek Stochastics π'

Zakynthos, Greece, 28-31 July 2026.

Scalable Inference

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About

The sixteenth edition of the Greek Stochastics meeting will take place in Zakynthos, Greece, on 28-31 July 2026. This meeting's primary aim is to facilitate a broad discussion of current research themes related to Scalable Inference.

Please note that there will also be a few contributed talks and poster presentations.

Image taken from Heather Cowper's flickr account

Short Courses

The meeting will consist of:

three short courses;
contributed oral presentations;
contributed poster presentations.

The four short courses will be given by

Lyudmila Grigoryeva @ University St Gallen on "Learning with random neural networks and reservoir systems".
Panayiotis Mertikopoulos @ University of Athens, on "Stochastic training methods for deep learning".
Chris Nemeth @ Lancaser University
on "Scalable Bayesian Inference: Monte Carlo Methods for Modern Data".

Programme

The workshop's programme will be uploaded here.

Abstract Submission

To be considered for a talk please submit an abstract to GrStoch@gmail.com by the 1st of May, 2026 -- Acceptance will be confirmed by 15th of May 2026 .

If you wish to be considered for a poster presentation please submit an abstract to GrStoch@gmail.com by the 3rd of July 2026.

Registration

The registration fee is 100 pounds and it includes refreshments during coffee breaks and the conference dinner.

You can now register via this link.

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Location and Travel

The meeting will take place at the Lesxi O Zakynthos (St. Marcus Square). More information about this historic venue can be found (in Greek) here.

Click here for some local information about Zakynthos.

Click here to find out how to get to Zakynthos.

Image taken from Heather Cowper's flickr account

Previous Meetings

You can find more about previous Greek Stochastics meetings here.

Group photo from the last Greek Stochastics conference

Organising/Scientific committee:

Alex Beskos (University College London)

Petros Dellaportas (University College London)

Nikos Demiris (Athens University of Economics and Business)

Kostas Kalogeropoulos (London School of Economics)

Nikolas Kantas (Imperial College London)

Ioannis Kosmidis (University of Warwick)

Theo Kypraios (University of Nottingham)

Omiros Papaspiliopoulos (Bocconi University).

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