Keynote talk 1: To be announced

Gerold Alsmeyer is a Senior Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, University of Münster, Germany. He is an internationally recognized expert in probability theory and stochastic processes, with a strong research record in areas such as stochastic fixed-point equations, iterated function systems, renewal theory, branching processes, and random walks. He has published numerous influential papers in leading journals and has collaborated with prominent mathematicians worldwide. His joint work has significantly advanced the understanding of the long-term behavior of complex random systems. His academic leadership is also reflected in his editorial roles and in organizing key international events. He served as an editor for the prestigious journal Stochastic Processes and their Applications and has chaired various international workshops and conferences, including the 7th European Young Statisticians Meeting held in 1991 in Oberwolfach, Germany.

Keynote talk 2:  Game-theoretic models in queuing theory

Antonis Economou is Professor of Operations Research and Head of the Statistics and Operations Research Section of the Department of Mathematics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His research interests lie in Operations Research and Applied Probability, with secondary interests in Social and Economic Networks and Mathematical Biology. Antonis Economou's scientific contributions are related to computational, optimization, and game-theoretic aspects of the study of stochastic systems with discrete units, with applications mainly in queuing theory. For the journal Queueing Systems, he has recently edited several special issues on modeling, analysis, and control of queuing models with strategic agents. 

Antonis Economou’s talk will focus on an overview and recent results on game-theoretical models in queuing. 

Keynote talk 3:  Multivariate phase-type/matrix-exponential distributions

Bo Friis Nielsen is Professor and Head of Section at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Technical University of Denmark, and he carries out his research work within the Research Unit “Statistics and Data Analysis”. He is an internationally recognized specialist in matrix-analytical methods and their applications, particularly in phase-type and matrix-exponential distributions. In this field, he has contributed both theoretically and with more practical applications in queuing models, maintenance, manufacturing, reliability and patient relocation in hospitals, among others. Some of Bo Friis Nielsen's main contributions to the field are collected in the monograph entitled "Matrix-Exponential Distributions in Applied Probability" (Springer), jointly published in 2017 with Mogens Bladt. 

Bo Friis Nielsen will give a talk on multivariate phase-type/matrix-exponential distributions, including a brief overview of the field and some new results.