June 20 - 24, 2016
School of Aquatic and Fisheries Sciences
Seattle, Washington, USA
Contact Jim.Ianelli@noaa.gov for registration and questions.
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- Plan development of instructional videos
- Coordination of TMB and ADMB Projects
- Developments in MCMC implementations
- Foundation Meeting
- Monday https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/772104533
- Tuesday https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/936038613
- Wednesday https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/864026837
- Thursday https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/818165589
- Thursday afternoon https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/705890341
- Friday https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/173447973
- Friday afternoon https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/110768581
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1b0jWcGYNh-jCcJdgx7m8DehWu44AS4jhNbi-205yTiY/edit
http://admb-project-org.admb-foundation.org/
Monday, June 20 Opening and Instructional Videos
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00AM | Opening: revision and approval of agenda; assignment of repporteurs |
| 10:00AM | Arni Magnusson: ADMB-IDE, rolling out version 11.5, people willing to help out? Also, a quick review of TMB-IDE. |
| 11:00AM | Discussion |
| 1:00PM | Lunch |
| 2:30PM | Mollie Brooks: The glmmTMB package for flexible mixed models in R |
| 3:30AM | Jim Thorson: Progress with spatio-temporal analysis of multivariate (e.g., species or sizes) data using TMB, and how statistical developments might help |
| 4:30PM | Discussion |
| 5:00PM | End |
Tuesday, June 21 Miscellaneous Topics
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00AM | Overview of R packages based on ADMB and TMB. Discuss potential new R package, TMBextras. Also write up (or find existing write-up?) description of how to create a user-level C++ library. |
| 10:00AM | Creation of Instructional videos - Chair Hans Skaug |
| 11:00AM | Split into breakout groups |
| Noon | Lunch |
| 1:00PM | Breakout groups |
| 2:00-3.00PM | PLENARY SESSION: Subgroups report on initial ideas, progress, and goals |
| 3:00-5:00PM | Breakout groups |
Wednesday, June 22 TMB / ADMB Coordination
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00AM | Johnoel Ancheta |
| Breakout sessions | |
| 5:00PM | End |
Possible Breakout sessions
- ADMB-IDE 11.5
- cppad_mixed
- instructional videos
- Nvidia GPU
- TMB with GPU
- Non-normal RE (rotational Bayes)
- Cross validation methods
- MCMC (Riemann with Langevin updates)
- XSSA demo of Sibert
- GLMM/TMB Package: another distribution could be added; hurdle model generalized Poisson
- Atomic functions and use of derivatives within the template (e.g., newton raphson's within the template)
- Debugging demonstration and documentation reference
- Posfun in TMB
- Protocol for contributing code
- Website issues
Thursday, June 23 The use of AD in statistical software
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00AM | David Fournier | The use of higher order AD to develop a multinomial like M estimator for the analysis of compositonal data with an application to fisheries management models |
| 10:00AM | Brad Bell | cppad_mixed: A C++ Package for Laplace Approximation of Mixed |
| 11:00AM | Break | |
| 11:30AM | Bob Carpenter | Implementation and Application of Reverse-Mode Autodiff in Stan |
| 1:00PM | Lunch | |
| 2:00PM | Kasper Kristensen | TMB: Automatic Differentiation and Laplace Approximation |
| 3:00PM | Cole Monnahan | Hamiltonian Monte Carlo in ADMB and TMB: current status and future directions |
| 4:00PM | Matthew Supernaw | ATL and Higher-Order Reverse Mode AD |
| 5:00PM | End of day |
Friday, June 24 Foundation Meeting and Conclusion
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 9:00AM | Discussion: How can the TMB and ADMB Projects support one another (Chair Jim Ianelli) |
| Outreach | |
| More training workshops | |
| Fund raising | |
| Possible relocation of project | |
| 2:00PM | ADMB Foundation Meeting |
| Discuss Articles of Incorporation | |
| Relocation of project | |
| Election of officers | |
| 4:00PM | End |
| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Dave Fournier | |
| John Sibert | Curmudgeon |
| Jim Ianelli | |
| Steve Martell | |
| Anders Nielsen | |
| Hans Skaug | |
| Arni Magnusson | |
| Kasper Kristensen | Developer TMB |
| Brad Bell | Developer cppad |
| Mollie Brooks | |
| Matthew Supernaw | Developer atl |
| Teresa A'mar | |
| Chris Grandin | |
| Casper Berg | |
| Cole Monnahan | |
| Jim Thorson | |
| Bob Carpenter | Stan Project |
| Johnoel Ancheta | |
| Gavin Fay | |
| Allan Hicks | IPHC |
| Kyle Foreman |