The topic selected for this year is "Interpretable Bayesian Learning for Physical and Engineering Sciences," covering a broad range of topics on interpretable physics-informed Bayesian learning, with practical case studies from particle physics, mechanical engineering, and bioengineering.
There are a limited number of spots available. The deadline for regular registration is April 30, 2026. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to email the ABS School Secretariat (abs26@mi.imati.cnr.it) or Simon Mak (sm769@duke.edu).
The Applied Bayesian Statistics summer school, organized by IMATI CNR, will be held at Lake Como in Italy this year, July 6-10, 2026, intended for researchers in statistical science, physics and/or engineering. Details are provided on the website:
abs26.imati.cnr.it
Submissions to 2026 BioPharm Paper Awards are now being accepted to the BioPharm email: isba.biostatspharma@gmail.com
A round of congratulations to the award recipients and recognitions to all our submission authors and co-authors for their work and high-level contributions in the Bayesian Biostatistics and Biopharmaceutical Statistics field.
2. Federica Stolf & Lorenzo Mauri - Pathway-based Bayesian factor models for gene expression data
with Amy H. Herring, Cameron Miller, and David B. Dunson
1. Anil Anderson - Bayesian Analysis of Clinical Trials with a Delayed Treatment Effect
with Ethan M. Alt, Amarjot Kaur, Qing Li, Jia Hua, Tianjian Zhou, and Joseph G. Ibrahim
Two additional Junior Researcher Award recognitions are also given to the following papers for being highly reviewed amongst a competitive pool of submissions.👇
🏆 2025 Junior Researcher Award:
Andrea Scottosanti - Bayesian Mapping of Mortality Clusters
with Enrico Bovo, Pietro Belloni, and Giovanna Boccuzzo
(doi.org/10.1093/bios... )
🏆 2025 Best Paper Award:
Peter Thall - Precision generalized phase I-II Designs
with Saijun Zhao, Ying Yuan, Juhee Lee, Pavlos Msaousel, and Yong Zang
(doi.org/10.1093/biom...)
The ISBA BioPharm Section presents the 2025 Best Paper and Junior Researcher Award recipients! 🎉 👇
The deadline for submission is May 31, 2026. Nominations for both awards may be made by any ISBA or SBSS member. The winners of both awards will be announced at the Joint Statistical Meeting in Chicago, Illinois, US, between August 7-12, 2027.
The Savage Award, named in honor of Leonard J. "Jimmie" Savage, is bestowed each year to two outstanding doctoral dissertations in Bayesian econometrics and statistics, one each in Theory & Methods and Applied Methodology.
Details may be found at bayesian.org/project/sava....
The Mitchell Prize is given in recognition of an outstanding paper that describes how Bayesian analysis has solved an important applied problem.
Details on the Mitchell Prize, including eligibility details and submission information, may be found at bayesian.org/project/mitc....
The Prize Committee of ISBA is pleased to open the call for submissions for the 2026 Mitchell Prize and Savage Award!
See 👇 for details.
In this issue:
📰 Updates from the Program Council, the Bayesian Analysis Editor, and the Prize Committee;
🎓 A special contribution celebrating the 80th anniversary of Jeffreys’ prior;
💻 A Software Highlight showcasing the flexibility of the NIMBLE probabilistic programming language.
The new issue of the ISBA Bulletin is out! 🎉
isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/
March 2026 ISBA Bulletin, featuring a little contribution by Mark Steel and me on the 80th anniversary of the Jeffreys' prior.
isba-bulletin.github.io/ISBABulletin/
@isba-bayesian.bsky.social
In this talk Dr. van Niekirk will give the intuition behind the modern INLA framework, and present various case studies within the field of Biostatistics where INLA has been recently applied.
Abstract: INLA has been established as an accurate approximate method in Bayesian inference. A modern formulation of INLA combining the Laplace method with Variational Bayes, was proposed and implemented in 2021. This new formulation enables various applications that were previously infeasible.
The Industrial Statistics section of ISBA is hosting a webinar
Date/Time: March 19, 2026, 11:00 am - 12:00 pm (US EST)
Speaker: Janet van Niekerk, The University of Pretoria, South Africa
Title: INLA for Biostatistics
Zoom info, etc. can be found below: 👇
bayesian.org/isba-industr...
Registration for the upcoming BNP Networking Workshop in Seoul, South Korea, is now open. You can register for the meeting at the following link:
bayesian.org/civicrm/even...
ISBA members save $100 (or $50 for students). To receive your discount, please sign in to your account before registering.
We'd also like to thank the selection committee for their work in assessing the submissions: David Bolin, Staci Hepler, Whitney Huang, Emily Kang, Andee Kaplan, Eleni Matechou, and Andrew Zammit-Mangion.
Francesca Labanca, University of Florence, Italy, for the paper "Copula-Based models for Spatially Dependent Cylindrical Data"
Shih-Ni Prim, North Carolina State University, USA, for the paper "A Spectral Confounder Adjustment for Spatial Regression with Multiple Exposures and Outcomes"
Antonio Aguirre, UC Santa Cruz, USA, for the paper "Bayesian Quantile-Based Correction and Synthesis of River Flow"
Viviana Carcaiso, University of Padova, Italy, for the paper "Bayesian Mixture Models for Heterogeneous Extremes"
The #EnviBayes Section of #ISBA is happy to announce and congratulate the winners of the 2026 Student Paper Competition!
We received excellent papers and thank all participants.
The winners are:
#EnviBayes are pleased to have teamed up with LACSC, TIES, and ENVR to co-organise the International Conference on Statistics, Data Science, and Computing for the Environment and Climate Change: 07 Dec 2026 - 11 Dec 2026 at UNAM, Mexico City. See website for details:
isi-web.org/event-detail...
Title: Skew-symmetric approximations of posterior distributions
Time: 17:00 UTC on Wednesday February 4th, 2026
For more info about this webinar (including abstract and Zoom link), as well as future webinars hosted by the Nonparametrics Section, see: bnp-isba.github.io/webinars.html
ISBA Community:
Join the Bayesian Nonparametrics Section of ISBA for a webinar on skew-symmetric approximations of posterior distributions presented by Botond Szabo.
Details below 👇
The deadline for abstracts for the Bayesian Young Statisticians Mtg ( #BAYSM) 2026 conference has been extended to Jan. 30, 2026. We invite contributions from early career researchers on a wide range of #Bayesian topics. Details can be found on the website:
baysm2026.github.io/BASYM2026/