Decisions will be announced in mid-December 2025. Proposals received after 21 November will be considered for inclusion as a poster on a rolling basis, as space permits.

If you have any questions, please contact the Program Council at program-council@bayesian.org.

Contributed talks are 15 minutes long. There will be 3 Poster Sessions, each about 2 hours. Proposals received before 21 November will be considered for inclusion as a contributed talk or poster.

The Scientific Committee welcomes proposals for Contributed Talks & Posters for the 2026 ISBA World Meeting, which will be held in Nagoya, Japan from 28 June to 3 July 2026. Contributed talks and poster sessions will take place between 29 June and 3 July 2026.

Winners based on the time zones UTC-12 to UTC-1:

-Beniamino Hadj-Amar, University of South Carolina
-Geoff Pleiss, University of British Columbia
-Nianqiao Jiu, University, Dartmouth College

Winners based on the time zones UTC+0 to UTC+13:

-Beatrice Franzolini, University of Milano-Bicocca
-Jun Yang, University of Copenaghen
-Francesco Denti, University of Padova

Many congratulations to our winners and huge thanks to all our candidates and those who have contributed to the process throughout. The winners will present their work at the upcoming BAYSM conference which will take place on 26-27 June 2025. See baysm2026.github.io/BASYM2026/ for more info.

The authors’ presentation will be followed by invited discussions from Merlise Clyde, Marco Ferreira, Alexander Ly, and Javier Rubio.

This session is dedicated to the memory of our late colleague María Eugenia Castellanos, co-author of the paper. Her memory and contributions will be remembered with a few informal words during the webinar.

📅 November 5, 2025 (4:00 PM UTC | 11:00 AM EST | 5:00 PM CET)

🔗 Registration: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Title: Bayesian nonparametric mixture models and the posterior number of clusters.

Time: 16:00 UTC on October 29th, 2025.

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

The interview is the transcript of a podcast jointly sponsored by JSDSE and Berry Consultants; the podcast will appear in November.

Proposals for talks should be submitted before 21 November, 2025. Proposals submitted after 21 November will be considered for inclusion in the poster session on a rolling basis.

For more information about the 2026 world meeting: isba2026.github.io