Skew 2026January 7-9, 2026 |
January 7th | 9:00 |
10:00 |
Tutorial by A. Azzalini |
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10:00 |
11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 |
11:45 |
Tutorial by A. Azzalini |
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11:50 |
12:30 |
Tutorial by A. Azzalini |
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13:00 |
14:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30 |
15:30 |
Tutorial by A. Azzalini |
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16:00 |
16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 |
16:45 |
Conference Opening |
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16:45 |
18:15 |
Session 1 |
Marc Genton (Title: Multivariate SUN, SUNNY, and SUNSET distributions: properties and applications) Arthur Richard Pewsey (Title: An overview of SAS distributions and their properties) |
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18:15 |
20:30 |
Poster session and welcome aperitif |
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January 8th |
9:00 |
10:30 |
Session 2 |
Samuel Livingstone (Title: Skew-symmetric numerical schemes for stochastic differential equations) Linda Tan Siew Li (Title: Variational inference based on a subclass of closed skew normals) |
10:30 |
11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 |
12:30 |
Session 3 |
Andriette Bekker (Title: Advances in clustering of incomplete multivariate data with skewed and heavy-tailed clusters) Brunero Liseo (Title: A quasi-SUN process for nonparametric binary regression) |
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12:30 |
14:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30 |
16:00 |
Session 4 |
Rosangela Helena Loschi (Title: Bayesian repulsive mixture model for functional data: contaminating the normal distribution to repel similarly shaped curves) Stefano Mazzuco (Title: Harnessing demographic skewness: insights and applications) |
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16:00 |
16:30 |
Coffee break |
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16:30 |
17:30 |
Session 5: Capitanio Lecture |
Francesco Pozza (Title: Skewed Bernstein-von Mises theorem and online skew-modal approximations) |
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18:00 |
19:30 |
Research Networking and visit to the Bo palace |
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19:30 |
23:00 |
Conference dinner at Caffè Pedrocchi |
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January 9th |
9:00 |
10:30 |
Session 6 |
Victor Hugo Lachos (Title: An EM algorithm for fitting matrix-variate skew-normal distributions on interval-censored and missing data) Marcia Branco (Title: On robustness properties of the skew-t model ) |
10:30 |
11:00 |
Coffee break |
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11:00 |
12:30 |
Session 7 |
Nicola Maria Rinaldo Loperfido (Title: Skewness-based projection pursuit: past, present and future) Dipak Dey (Title: Addressing asymmetric relationships with skewed link functions in Bayesian network modeling) |
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12:30 |
14:30 |
Lunch |
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14:30 |
16:00 |
Session 8 |
Sylvia Fruehwirth-Schnatter (Title: Aspects of factor modelling of skew multivariate data) Daniele Durante (Title: Skew-symmetric representations of posterior densities) |
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16:00 |
18:00 |
Concluding remarks and aperitif |
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