StanCon 2024

StanCon 2024 Tentative date: September 9-13, at the University of Oxford, UK.

StanCon 2023

StanCon 2023 June 20-21, at the Washington University in St. Louis was a great success.

Slides and materials from the talks and presentations are available at https://github.com/stan-dev/stancon2023

We thank our sponsors for their generosity, all of the speakers for sharing their expertise, the StanCon organizing committee and the local organizers for many, many hours of hard work, and the WUSTL staff for their hospitality. Many, many thanks to all of the participants for making this a rewarding experience!

StanConnect

StanConnect - Simulation Based Calibration, 31 August 2021

StanConnect - Ecology Part 1, 30 September 2021

StanConnect - Ecology Part 2, 4 October 2021

StanConnect - Biomedical , 19 October 2021

StanConnect - Cognitive Science and Neuroscience, 19 November 2021

Stan Conferences

StanCon 2023. St. Louis, MO, 20-23 June

StanCon 2020. Online 24h event, 13 August

StanCon 2019. Cambridge, England 20-23 August

StanCon 2018 - Helsinki, Finland 29-31 August

StanCon 2018 - Asilomar, California 10-12 January

You can learn about Stan through introductory and specialized courses, or in many presentations at meetups and other venues.

An Introduction to the Stan Software for Bayesian Analysis

Speaker: Ben Goodrich
Date: 3 July 2017, 6:30–7:30pm
Location: Berlin, Germany
Venue: The Hub @ Zalando
Details: View

How to Use (R)Stan to Estimate Models in External R Packages

Speaker: Ben Goodrich
Date: 6 July 2017, 2:24–2:42pm
Location: Brussels, Belgium
Venue: useR 2017 Conference
Details: View

Past

Stan: A Software Ecosystem for Modern Bayesian Inference

Speaker: Jonah Gabry
Date: 28 April 2017, 1:30–2:30pm
Location: St. Louis, MO
Venue: Neuroinformatics Research Group (Washington University in St. Louis)
Details: View

Advanced use of Stan, rstan and Torsten for pharmacometric applications

Date: 10 June 2017, 08:00–17:00
Location: Budapest
Venue: PAGE 2017
Details: View

StanCon: Saturday January 21, 2017

Date: 21 January 2017
Location: New York, NY (USA)
Venue: Columbia University, Davis Auditorium
Details: View

Getting Started with PK/PD Modeling using Stan

Instructor: Bill Gillespie
Date: 23 October 2016 (Sunday)
Location: Seattle (USA)
Venue: American Conference on Pharmacometrics (ACoP)
Details: View

ASA Webinar: Introduction to Stan - From Logistic Regression to PK/PD ODE Models

Instructor: Sebastian Weber
Date: 06 October 2016
Location: Webinar
Details: View

Stan for Pharmacometrics Day (Free Workshop)

Date: 22 September 2016
Location:: Paris (France)
Details: View

Bayesian Inference with Stan for Pharmacometrics

Instructors: Michael Betancourt, Daniel Lee, Bob Carpenter
Dates: 19–21 September 2016
Location:: Paris (France)
Details: View

Bayesian Inference in Stan

Instructor: Daniel Lee
Date: 23–24 August 2016
Location:: Anchorage, Alaska (USA)
Venue: Alaska Science Center
Details: View

An Introduction to Econometric Modeling using Stan

Instructor: Ben Goodrich
Date: 02 August 2016
Location:: Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
Venue: Applied and Agricultural Economics Association
Details: Forthcoming

Introduction to Stan with Climate Change Example

Speaker: Ben Goodrich and Dan Flynn
Date: 1 August 2016
Location: IBM Cambridge (Boston, USA)
Venue: Greater Boston useR Group
Details: View

An Introduction to Stan

Instructors: Ben Goodrich and Eric Novik
Date: 30 July 2016 (Saturday)
Location:: Chicago, Illinois (USA)
Venue: Joint Statistical Meetings
Details: Session information

Learn Bayes, MCMC, and Stan

Instructors: Andrew Gelman, Jonah Gabry, Vince Dorie
Dates: 18–20 July 2016
Location: New York City (USA)
Details: View

Survival Models with Stan

Instructors: Jacki Buros
Date: 28 July 2016 (Thursday)
Location:: New York, New York (USA)
Venue:: Google office
Details: Meetup

Bayesian Modeling Using Stan

Instructors: Ben Goodrich and Daniel Furr
Date: 11 July 2016 (Monday)
Location:: Asheville, North Carolina (USA)
Venue: International Meeting of the Psychometric Society
Details: Accepted proposal

An Introduction to Bayesian Inference using R Interfaces to Stan

Instructor: Ben Goodrich
Date: 27 June 2016 (Monday)
Location:: Stanford, California (USA)
Venue: useR 2016
Details: abstract

Introduction to Bayesian Inference using Stan with Applications to Cancer Genomics

Instructors: Jacki Buros, Ben Goodrich, and Eric Novik
Date: 26 June 2016 (Monday)
Location:: Stanford, California (USA)
Venue: Bioconductor 2016

Introduction to Stan

Instructor: Sebastian Weber
Date: 12 June 2016 (Sunday)
Location:: Santa Margherita di Pula, Sardina (Italy)
Venue: International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
Details: View

Getting Started with PK/PD Modeling using Stan

Instructor: Bill Gillespie
Date: 10 June 2016 (Friday)
Location: Lisbon (Portugal)
Venue: Population Approach Group Europe (PAGE)
Details: View

Life Is Precious: Fix Your Sampling Problems

Instructor: Jonah Gabry
Date: 9 June 2016 (Thursday)
Location: New York (USA)
Venue: Bayesian Data Analysis Meetup
Details: View

Fitting and Diagnosing Models with RStan and ShinyStan

Instructor: Jonah Gabry
Date: 11 May 2016 (Wednesday)
Location: Cambridge, Massachusetts (USA)
Venue: Stan Users - Boston/Camberville meetup
Details: Harvard University Herbaria
22 Divinity Ave (map)
6:00 PM

Introduction to Stan Talk

Instructor: Eric Novik
Date: Sometime 20 – 22 May 2016 (Weekend)
Location: Boston, Massachusetts (USA)
Venue: Open Data Science Conference (ODSC)
Details: Forthcoming when day and time are set

A Probability Model for Golf Putting

Instructor: Daniel Lee
Date: 25 April 2016 (Monday)
Location: New York (USA)
Venue: Bayesian Data Analysis Meetup
Details: View

Bayes/Stan Short Course

Instructor: Andrew Gelman
Date: 21 April 2016 (Thursday)
Location: Mountain View, California (USA)
Venue: Google
Details: Google employees only.

Introduction to Bayesian Modeling with Stan in R

Instructors: Bob Carpenter, Krzysztof Sakrejda
Date: 22 April 2016 (Friday)
Location: New Haven, Connecticut (USA)
Venue: New England Statistics Symposium (NESS)
Details: View

Stan Demo

Instructor: Jonah Gabry
Date: 06 April 2016 (Wednesday)
Location: New York, New York (USA)
Time: 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Venue: Columbia University, Lerner Hall
Details: Columbia Data Science Day (Buy tickets); Abstract