| January 7th | 9:00 | 10:00 | Tutorial by A. Azzalini | |
| 10:00 | 11:00 | Coffee break | ||
| 11:00 | 11:45 | Tutorial by A. Azzalini | ||
| 11:50 | 12:30 | Tutorial by A. Azzalini | ||
| 13:00 | 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 | 15:30 | Tutorial by A. Azzalini | ||
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:30 | 16:45 | Conference Opening | ||
| 16:45 | 18:15 | Session 1 Chair: Reinaldo Arellano-Valle | Marc Genton (Title: Multivariate SUN, SUNNY, and SUNSET distributions: properties and applications) Arthur Richard Pewsey (Title: An overview of SAS distributions and their properties) | |
| 18:15 | 20:30 | Poster session and welcome aperitif | ||
| January 8th | 9:00 | 10:30 | Session 2 Chair: Omiros Papaspiliopoulos | 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 | ||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Session 3 Chair: Nicola Sartori | 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) | |
| 12:30 | 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 | 16:00 | Session 4 Chair: Antonio Canale | 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) | |
| 16:00 | 16:30 | Coffee break | ||
| 16:30 | 17:30 | Session 5: Capitanio Lecture Chair: Adelchi Azzalini | Francesco Pozza (Title: Skewed Bernstein-von Mises theorem and online skew-modal approximations) | |
| 18:00 | 19:30 | Research Networking and visit to the Bo palace | ||
| 19:30 | 23:00 | Conference dinner at Caffè Pedrocchi | ||
| January 9th | 9:00 | 10:30 | Session 6 Chair: Alessandra Rosalba Brazzale | 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 | ||
| 11:00 | 12:30 | Session 7 Chair: Clecio Ferreira | 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) | |
| 12:30 | 14:30 | Lunch | ||
| 14:30 | 16:00 | Session 8 Chair: Bruno Scarpa | Sylvia Fruehwirth-Schnatter (Title: Aspects of factor modelling of skew multivariate data) Daniele Durante (Title: Skew-symmetric representations of posterior densities) | |
| 16:00 | 18:00 | Concluding remarks and aperitif |