The full program, featuring session abstracts and biographies of the mentoring panelists, is available for download here.
13:30 - 14:30
Registration and welcome
14:30 - 15:50
Machine Learning & Computational Statistics: We Compute, Therefore We Are
Organizer: y-SIS
Chair: Martina Amongero (y-SIS & UniTo)
Speakers:
Letizia Lamperti (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Advanced Machine Learning Techniques for Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Using Environmental DNA Metabarcoding.
Federica Milinanni (KTH)
Uncertainty Quantification via MCMC: Applications, Algorithmic Advances, and Analysis via Large Deviation.
Lorenzo Rimella (UniTo)
Scalable Calibration of Individual-Based Epidemic Models Through Categorical Approximations.
Valentina Zangirolami (UniMiB)
Using Conformal Prediction for Gaussian Process Regression in Dynamic Systems.
15:50 - 16:05
Coffee break
16:05 - 17:25
Bicocca & Bayes: an Infinite (dimensional) Love Story
Organizer: y-SIS
Chair: Matteo Gianella (y-SIS & PoliMi)
Speakers:
Francesco Barile (UniMiB)
Control Variate-based Stochastic Sampling from the Probability Simplex.
Alessandro Colombi (UniMiB)
Bayesian Nonparametric Inference for Unobserved Events.
Claudio Del Sole (UniMiB)
A Bayesian Nonparametric Approach to the Multi-Armed Bandit Problem for Traits Allocation Models.
Laura Ferrini (UniMiB)
Clustering Multivariate Categorical Data via Mixtures of Graphical Models.
17:25 - 19:00
Poster session & reception (the detailed list of posters is available for download here)
Starting 19:30
Social event @Fuorimano Pavillon, Viale dell'Innovazione 3, Milan.
09:00 - 10:20
GLASS Perspectives: Bridging Data and Society through Statistics
Organizer: GLASS
Chair: Sophie Grace Parolin (UniPd)
Speakers:
Yuri Calleo (UniCh)
Integrating Futures Studies and Statistics: A New Horizon for Predictive Insights.
Claudia Franceschini (UniPd)
Modelling University Career Paths: A Competing Risks Analysis of Dropout and Degree Completion at the University of Padua.
Giuliana La Mantia (UniPa)
Residential Segregation in a Mediterranean City: The Case of Palermo.
Eleonora Miaci (UniMi)
Health and Vulnerability Among Refugees in Italy: Exploring Self-Rated Health, Mental Health, and Unmet Health Needs.
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
10:50 - 12:10
Biology, Medicine & Stats: A Love Triangle
Organizer: Giulia Capitoli (y-SIS & UniMiB)
Chair: Giulia Capitoli (y-SIS & UniMiB)
Speakers:
Luca Caldera (PoliMi)
DISARM++: Scanner-Free Image Harmonization via Unsupervised Image2Image Translation.
Susanna Gentile (UniRoma1)
Q-Approximation of the Operating Characteristics of Clinical Trials.
Cosimo Grazzini (UniFi)
Statistical Approaches in Complex Biological Scenarios: The Biogeographical Ancestry Analysis.
Andrea Sottosanti (UniPd)
Spatially Regularized Gaussian Mixtures for Clustering Spatial Transcriptomic Data.
12:10 - 13:30
Mentoring Session
Getting Tenure: Is That Even a Thing?
Chair: Tommaso Rigon (UniMiB)
Panelists: Alessandro Fassò (UniBg), Alessandra Guglielmi (PoliMi), Maria Grazia Valsecchi (UniMiB)
13:30 - 15:00
Lunch
15:00 - 16:00
Keynote Session
Speaker: Federico Camerlenghi (UniMiB)
Unveiling the unseen: the power of being Bayesian
Chair: Luca Aiello (y-SIS & UniBg)
16:00 - 17:20
Statistical Models Applied to Sustainability Issues
Organizer: SVQS
Chair: Marco Mingione (y-SIS & UniRoma3)
Speakers:
Irene Ariante (UniNa)
Composite Indicators for Deep-Diving into Residents’ Perception of Tourism Impacts.
Sara Selvaggia Guerini (UniBg)
Modelling Traffic Flow Data with Dynamic Copula Models.
Riccardo Ricciardi (UniBs)
Temporal Self-Similarity Trajectories in Bootstrapped Word Embeddings: Tracking the Semantic Evolution of Sustainability in the Literature of Made in Italy.
Matteo Ventura (UniBs)
Sustainability and Consumer Choice: Clustering Attitudes in the Italian Furniture Market.
17:20 - 17:30
Closing remarks