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S.CO. 2009

COMPLEX MODELS AND COMPUTATIONAL METHODS FOR
ESTIMATION AND PREDICTION

Politecnico di Milano

SEPTEMBER 14-16, 2009

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http://mox.polimi.it/sco2009
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SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT

The aim of the S.Co. conferences is to provide a forum for the  
discussion of new
developments and applications of statistical models and computational  
methods for complex and high dimensional data.

S.Co.2009 follows the S.Co. conferences held in Venice (1999), Brixen (2001),
Treviso (2003), Brixen (2005) and Venice (2007); as in the previous  
editions, the conference will consist of invited lectures, organized  
and contributed sessions and poster presentations.


PLENARY SPEAKERS

- Michael Jordan, University of California Berkeley
- James O.Ramsay, McGill University
- Paolo Vidoni, Universita' di Udine
- Alastair Young, Imperial College London


TOPICS
A non exhaustive list of the subject areas covered in the conference includes:
- Dynamic models: computational methods and applications;
- Computational methods and Bayesian statistics;
- Design and analysis of complex surveys;
- Statistical methods in machine learning;
- Functional data analysis;
- Methods for multidimensional analysis of complex data;
- Time series and spatial modeling;
- Statistical methods for technology;
- Likelihood inference in complex models.


INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS
A one page, text only, abstract should be submitted by April 4th, 2009  
through the conference website (http://mox.polimi.it/sco2009). The  
Scientific Committee will notify to authors the acceptance of the  
paper by April 18th, 2009. After acceptance, a short paper of at most  
6 pages should be submitted through the conference website by June  
20th, 2009.


DEADLINES
- April 4th, 2009: abstract submission;
- April 18th, 2009: notification of acceptance;
- June 20th, 2009: short paper submission.


CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
All accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings;
during the conference the proceedings will be distributed to the participants.


COLLECTIVE BOOK
Pietro Mantovan and Piercesare Secchi are planning to publish a  
collective book with about 15-20 long papers (15 pages) on the best  
advances on the topics object of the conference. The book will appear  
on the series Contribution to Statistics published by Springer  
(http://www.springer.com/series/2912).
Contributions to the book are open to all researchers, not only those  
coming to the conference: detailed instructions for prospective  
authors will soon be available on the conference web site.



Best regards,
Piercesare Secchi

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Piercesare Secchi
MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci, 32
20133 Milano - Italy
tel. +39 02 2399 4592
fax. +39 02 2399 4568
e.mail: [log in to unmask]


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Laura Maria Sangalli
MOX - Dipartimento di Matematica
Politecnico di Milano
Piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32
20133 Milano - Italy

tel: +39 02 2399 4554
fax: +39 02 2399 4606

email: [log in to unmask]
url: http://mox.polimi.it/~sangalli
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