2023-11-6 Invited Seminar at GIR de Probabilidad y Estadìstica Matemàtica, University of Valladolid, Valladolid (Spain). Title of the talk: Measuring income inequality via percentile relativities.
2021-03-12 Invited at the Research Webinar ``Dialogues on Gender. ABCD Research Seminars, University of Milano-Bicocca'', Milan (Italy). Title of the talk: Analyzing the Gender Gap in Poland and Italy, and by Regions.
2018-10-25 Invited talk at Statistics Seminars 2018-19, Department of Mathematics, University College Dublin, Dublin (Ireland). Title of the talk: Exploring robust fuzzy clustering of multivariate skew data.
2016-2-2 Invited Seminar at Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, Brisbane (Australia). Title of the talk: The joint usage of trimming and constraints for robust estimation of Mixtures of Factor Analyzers.
2016-11-15 Invited Lecturer at the Department of Statistical Methods, University of Lodz, Lodz (Polonia). Title of the talks: Inequality Measures and their properties.
2015-11-18 Invited Lecturer at Laboratoire Paul Painlevé, University of Lille 1, Lille (France). Title of the talks: From Gini to Zenga: In Search of a More Equitable Measurement of Income Inequality.
2014-2-24 Invited Lecturer at GIR de Probabilidad y Estadìstica Matemàtica, University of Valladolid, Valladolid (Spain). Title of the talks: Los clientes de telecomunicaciones se comportan de manera similar dentro de un mismo plan de tràfico? Segmentaciòn del mercado a travès de mixturas restringidas de anàlisis factoriales.
2011-10-7 Invited Seminar at Department of Mathematics \& Statistics, University of Guelph, Guelph (Canada). Title of the talk: From Gini to Zenga: In Search of a More Equitable Measurement of Income Inequality.
2011-9-30 Invited Seminar at Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London (Canada). Title of the talk: From Gini to Zenga: the development of a new way for assessing income inequality.
2011-9-22 Invited Seminar at Department of Statistical and Actuarial Sciences, University of Western Ontario, London (Canada). Title of the talk: What do Gini and Zenga say about European household incomes?
2011-9-15 Invited Seminar at Department of Economics, Carleton University, Ottawa (Canada). Title of the talk: What do Gini and Zenga say about European household incomes?
2011-7-6 Invited Seminar at Dipartimento di Impresa Culture e Società, Università di Catania, Catania (Italy). Title of the talk: Estimating Gini's and Zenga's inequality indices on the ECHP dataset.
Plenary speaker at the 42nd Scientific Conference on Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Lodz (Poland), 4-6 November 2024. Title of the talk: Studying hierarchical latent structures in heterogeneous populations with missing information
Plenary speaker at the 41st Conference on Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Lodz (Poland), November 6-8, 2023. Title of the talk: Measuring income inequality via percentile relativities.
Plenary speaker at the 14th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group, Salerno (Italy), September 11-13, 2023. Title of the talk: To get the best, tame the “beast": robust ML estimation for mixture models.
Invited speaker at the Session "Advances in robust cluster analysis"s at the 13th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group, Florence (Italy), September 9-11, 2021. Title of the talk: Robust classification of spectroscopic data in agri-food: a first analysis on the stability of results.
Invited speaker at the 40th Scientific Conference on Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Lodz (Poland), 7-9 November 2022, Title of the talk: A two-stage Bayesian procedure for novelty detection.
Invited speaker at the Session "Advances in methods for clustering", at the 10th International conference on Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics, Valladolid (Spain), 14-16 September 2022. Title of the talk: Monitoring tools in Robust CWM for the analysis of crime data.
Plenary speaker at the 39th Scientific Conference on Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Lodz (Poland), 8-10 November 2021. Title of the talk: Parameter Choice, Stability and Validity for Robust Cluster Weighted Modeling.
Invited speaker at the Session "Advances in robust cluster analysis" at the 13th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group Firenze (Italy), September 9-11, 2021. Title of the talk: Robust classification of spectroscopic data in agri-food: a first analysis on the stability of results.
Plenary speaker at the 14th International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena, May 10-13, 2021, organised by the Department of Statistics at Cracow University of Economics and the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Title of the talk: Robust dimension reduction for classification of spectroscopic data in agri-food.
Invited speaker at the Session "Modelling and Clustering Complex Data" organized by Geoffrey McLachlan at the 12th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2019), Senate House, University of London, 14-16 December 2019. Title of the talk: Robust and efficient estimates of partition and model parameters: a step beyond the usual normality assumption.
Plenary speaker at the 38th Scientific Conference on Multivariate Statistical Analysis, Lodz (Poland), 4-6 November 2019. Title of the talk: Advances in learning from contaminated datasets.
Invited speaker at the Conference "Stochastic Geometry", Saint-Petersburg, September 16-20, 2019, sponsored by Euler Mathematical Institute & Chebyshev Laboratory of St. Petersburg State University. Title of the talk: Inferential results for a new inequality curve.
Invited speaker at the Invited Session "Classification methods in economics and business" at the 16-th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies, Thessaloniki (Greece), August 26-29, 2019. Title of the talk: Fuzzy clustering with skew components, with applications in Economics and Business.
Invited speaker at the International Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena, May 2019, organised by the Department of Statistics at Cracow University of Economics and the Committee of Statistics and Econometrics of the Polish Academy of Sciences. Title of the talk: Robust fuzzy clustering for skew socio-economic data.
Invited speaker at the 11th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2018), 14-16 December 2018, within the session "Supervised and Unsupervised Learning". Title of the talk: Extending robust fuzzy clustering to skew data.
Invited speaker at CompSTAT 2018, Iasi (Romania), August 28-31, 2018, within the session "CO068: Soft clustering" (http://www.compstat2018.org/organized.php). Title of the talk: Fuzzy clustering for heterogenous skew data.
Invited speaker at the 49th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS 2018), June 20-22, 2018, Palermo (Italy), within the Solicited Session on "New perspectives in supervised and unsupervised classification". Title of the talk: Robust Updating Classification Rule, with applications in Food Authenticity Studies.
Plenary speaker at the 19th International Scientific Conference on Quantitative Methods in Economics (QME), Warsaw (Poland), June 18-19, 2018, Title of the talk: Analyzing and comparing gender gap in Poland and Italy \\http://mibe.sggw.pl/en/
Invited speaker at the XXXVII Congreso Nacional de Estadìstica e Investigaciòn Operativa y de las XI Jornadas de Estadìstica Pùblica, Oviedo (Spain), May 29-June 1rst, 2018. Title of the talk: Advances in robust estimation of skew normal mixtures: addressing the issue of truncated moments.
Plenary Speaker at the "12-th International Scientific Conference on Modelling and Forecasting of Socio-Economic Phenomena", dedicated to the memory of Professor Aleksander Zelia, Zakopane (Poland), 8-10 May 2018. Title of the talk: Robust clustering methods for multivariate socio-economic data.
Invited speaker at the 10th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017), 16-18 December 2017, Senate House, University of London, UK, in Session EO232: Clustering/classification and mixtures I. Title of the talk: Advances in robust estimation of skew normal mixtures.
Plenary Speaker at the III International Workshop on Proximity Data, Multivariate Analysis and Classification, Valladolid (Spain), October 26-27, 2017. Title of the talk: To get the best, tame the beast: constrained ML estimation for mixture models. http://www.eio.uva.es/wamyc/program.html
Invited speaker at the Summer Session of the Working Group on Model-Based Clustering, Perugia (Italy), 17-21 July 2017, (details on past workshops: http://www.stat.washington.edu/raftery/Onrgroup/onrgroup$\_$past.html). Title of the talk: New developments on robust estimation for mixtures. http://w3.mi.parisdescartes.fr/~cbouveyr/WGMBC17.html
Invited speaker at the ISI 2017 World Congress, Marrakech (Marocco),16-21 July 2017. Session ``State of the art and advances in modern empirical process theory in welfare analysis" (declined due to overlapping with previous item).
Invited speaker at the Session ``EO115: Mixture models for complex data sets", 9th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics (CMStatistics 2016), Sevilla (Spain), December 9-11, 2016. Title of the talk: A fuzzy version of robust mixtures of Gaussian factor analyzers. http://cmstatistics.org/CMStatistics2016/organized.php
Invited speaker at the Conference on Multivariate Statistical Analysis MSA 2016, Lodz (Poland), November 6-9, 2016. Title of the talk: Parsimonious and robust clustering.
Invited speaker at the Session "Robust statistics", Soft Methods in Probability and Statistics SMPS2016, Rome (Italy), September 12-14, 2016. Title of the talk: Fuzzy clustering through robust Factor Analyzers.
Invited speaker at the Session "Robust estimation in model-based clustering", MBC2 Workshop on Model-Based Clustering and Classification, Catania (Italy), September 5-7, 2016. Title of the talk: Robust estimation in model-based clustering.
Invited speaker at the 22nd International Conference on Computational Statistics COMPSTAT 2016, Oviedo (Spain), 23-27 August 2016, in the Session "CI083: Recent developments in mixture models". Title of the talk: Robust clustering of multivariate skew data.
Invited speaker at 8th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2017), 12-14 December 2015, Senate House, University of London, UK, in Specialized Session EO190: "Advances in Mixture modelling". Title of the talk: Robust estimation for mixtures of Skew data, http://www.cmstatistics.org/CMStatistics2015/fullprogramme.php
Invited speaker at the Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS), Bologna, (Italy), 6-8 July 2015, in Session "SP4: Mixture Models: Recent Developments and Applications for Unsupervised and Supervised Classification". Title of the talk: The joint role of trimming and constraints in robust estimation for mixtures of skew normal.
Invited speaker at the 7th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing & Statistics (CMStatistics 2014), Pisa (Italy) 6-8 December 2014, in Session "ES89: Robust statistics in R". Title of the talk: Robust model estimation, through trimming and constraints, for mixtures of factor analyzers.
Invited speaker at the International Conference on Statistics "Flint: one city, one hundred years under variability", Flint, (Michigan, USA) 23-28 June, 2014. Title of the talk: Measuring Inequality at the Time of the Great Divergence.
Invited speaker at the 47th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, in Solicited Session SL13 - Computations with Intractable Likelihood. Title of the talk: An adaptive method to robustify ML estimation in Cluster Weighted Modeling, Cagliari (Italy), 11-13 June , 2014, \\ http://meetings.sis-statistica.org/index.php/sm2013/sis2014
Invited speaker at 6th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computing \& Statistics (CMStatistics 2013), London (UK), 14-16 December 2013, in Session ES28: Advances in robust data analysis. Title of the talk: A robust approach to Cluster Weighted Modeling.
Invited talk at ERCIM 2013, London (UK) in: Cluster-weighted modelling, Robustness and asymptotics properties of trimmed cluster-weighted restricted modeling.
Invited speaker at SIS 2013 Statistical conference: Advances in Latent Variables - Methods, Models and Applications, Brescia (Italy), 19-21 June 2013, in the Specialized Session M1.2: Latent variable models for marketing research. Title of the talk: Market segmentation via mixtures of constrained factor analyzers.
Invited speaker at AISC 2012, International Conference on Advances in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Combinatorics, 5-7 October 2012, Greensboro, NC (USA), within Session CEUC 55: Statistical Modeling and Inference in Economics And Insurance. Title of the talk: Unequal perspectives on inequality: a comparison among the evergreen Gini and the new Zenga indices.
Invited speaker at the 45th Annual Conference of the Canadian Economics Association, in Session "New Trends in Measuring Inequality / Mésure des inégalité - Nouvelles tendances". Title of the talk: Geographical differences in income inequality: a comparison between Canada and Italy. https://economics.ca/2011/en/program.php