Skew 2026

A class of distributions which includes the normal one: foundational contributions and recent advancements on skewed distributions
January 7-9, 2026

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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