IFCS2015 Conference - updates

[Francesco Palumbo]

Department of Statistics P. Fortunati University of Bologna "Alma Mater Studiorum" (Italy) ClaDAG Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society organize the IFCS2015 Conference International Federation of Classification Societies July 6th-8th, 2015 - Bologna * * * IFCS2015 conference is quickly approaching, in the next few days we will publish on the conference website a tentative conference program. Visit the conference pages at URL http://ifcs.boku.ac.at/ifcs2015 by the end of the week. In the meantime, we are pleased to announce the topics of the plenary sessions: > President’s invited session: Gerda Claeskens (BE) Focused graphical model estimation > Session in the 25th anniversary of the Generalized Additive Models book: Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani (USA) Title: TBA > Marco Riani (IT) Modern multivariate data analysis through monitoring > Terry Speed (AU) Removing unwanted variation for classification and clustering We kindly remind you that two tutorials will be held in parallel in the afternoon of Sunday, the 5th of July, namely: > Distributional Data Analysis, by Prof. Rosanna Verde > The New Science of Big Data Analytics, Based on the Geometry and the Topology of Complex Systems, by Prof. Fionn Murtagh Abstract submission and session proposal are closed. However, posters submission will remain open until June 15th, those who will present a poster by June 15th are automatically entitled to pay the reduced registration fees. Important dates: May 15, 2015: Deadline standard registration June 15, 2015: Deadline late registration on line July 5, 2015: Preconference workshops July 6-8, 2018: IFCS-2015 conference We look forward to seeing you in Bologna in July 2015 Francesco Palumbo Chair Scientific Program Committee Angela Montanari Chair Local Organizing Committee Maurizio Vichi President of IFCS ---------------------------------------------- CLASS-L list. Instructions: http://www.classification-society.org/csna/lists.html#class-l