Detailed Program
Program at a Glance
The Programme Book can be found here.
Tue July 14
Opening
Parallel Sessions
IASC Invited Session: High-dimensional Data and Statistical Learning
Chair: Francesco Palumbo (IASC)
Room: SironiSpeakers
Mika Sato-Ilic, Gabriele Soffritti, Johané Nienkemper-SwanepoelSolicited Session: Advances in Spectral Clustering
Chair: Giorgia Zaccaria
Room: U4-01Speakers
Alessandra Ragni, Cinzia Di Nuzzo, John R.J. ThompsonSolicited Session: New Advances in Statistical Learning
Chair: Marialuisa Restaino
Room: U4-02Speakers
Davide Fabbrico, Marcella Niglio, Domenico VistoccoContributed Session: Model-based Clustering I
Room: U3-08Speakers
Francesca Ieva, Daniele Spinelli, Samyajoy Pal, Pengqi LiuContributed Session: Compositional Data Analysis
Room: U3-09Speakers
Jason Pillay, Stefania Fensore, André Menezes, Giulia PatanèPoster Session and Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
GFKL Invited Session: Data-driven Models for Bioinformatics and System Biology
Chair: Hans Kestler (GFKL)
Room: U4-01Speakers
Tushar Patel, Marietta Hamberger, Giovanni Corradini, David Köhler, Dayasri RaviInvited Session: Robust Multivariate Methodologies
Chair: Claudio Agostinelli
Room: U4-02Speakers
Yuexiao Dong, Anand Vidyashankar, Ilaria Prosdocimi, Abhik Ghosh, Luis Angel García-EscuderoSKAD Invited Session: Network-Based Modeling of Nonlinear Dependencies in Financial Systems
Chair: Maciej Denkowski
Room: U3-08Speakers
Joanna Landmesser-Rusek, Anna Denkowska, Krystian Szczęsny, Przemysław Rola, Sebastian BaranSolicited Session: Compositional Data
Chair: Anna Fiori
Room: U3-09Speakers
Sara Sommariva, Roberto Ascari, Connie Stewart, Glòria Mateu-Figueras, Kai-Sheng SongSolicited Session: Classification in Social Sciences
Chair: Andrea Marletta
Room: U3-10Speakers
Christina Parpoula, Alfonso Piscitelli, Angela Maria D’Uggento, Franca Crippa, Theodore ChadjipadelisCS Invited Session: Tackling Complexity with Mixture Modeling Approaches
Chair: Cristina Tortora
Room: SironiSpeakers
Sanjeena Dang, Luca Scrucca, Alexa Sochaniwsky, Bettina GrünKeynote Talk — Laura Sangalli
Chair: Berthold Lausen
Room: SironiStatistical Learning: From Complex Data to Physics-Informed Discovery
Lunch
Parallel Sessions
BDSS Invited Session: Cluster Validation
Chair: Julia Handl / Christian Hennig
Room: U4-02Speakers
Ricardo Campello, Davide Chicco, Zdeněk Šulc, Adán José-GarcíaSEIO-AMyC Invited Session: Variable Selection and Influence in Classification Problems
Chair: Aurea Grané
Room: U4-01Speakers
Eva Boj, Ignacio Cascos, Fabio Scielzo-Ortiz, Miguel Ramos-CabañasInvited Session: Advances in Second Generation Functional Data Analysis for High Dimensional Structures
Chair: Rosalba Ignaccolo
Room: U3-08Speakers
Ci-Ren Jiang, Roberto Rocci, Carlo Zaccardi, Nicoletta D’AngeloSolicited Session: Advances in Bayesian Computation and Inference
Chair: Tommaso Rigon
Room: U3-10Speakers
Jordan Bryan, Francesca Crucinio, Chiara Magnani, Francesco PozzaSSS Invited Session: Network Clustering and Blockmodeling I
Chair: Anuška Ferligoj
Room: SironiSpeakers
Fabio Ashtar Telarico, Giancarlo Ragozini, Silvia D’Angelo, Tabea RebafkaSDS Invited Session: From Data to Insights: The Explainability–Predictability Trade-Off
Chair: Paola Cerchiello (SDS-SIS Group) Discussant: Arianna Agosto
Room: U3-09Speakers
Erwan Scornet, Daniel Traian Pele, Marzio De CoratoKeynote Talk — Mohamed Nadif
Chair: Maurizio Vichi
Room: SironiBoosting Clustering Performance: Approaches and Key Insights
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
SEIO-AMyC Invited Session: New Tools and Methods for Complex Datasets
Chair: Eva Boj
Room: U3-08Speakers
Marcos Álvarez, Jordi Saperas, Amparo Baíllo, Alberto SuarezSolicited Session: Clustering of Complex Data Structures
Chair: Marta Nai Ruscone
Room: U4-02Speakers
Marco Riani, Cristina Tortora, Jesse Ghashti, Shuchismita SarkarInvited Session: Advances in Learning from Complex Contaminated Data
Chair: Andrea Cappozzo
Room: U4-01Speakers
Arthur White, Houyem Demni, Fabio Centofanti, Christian HennigCLAD Invited Session: Clustering and Classification in Practice
Chair: Carlos Ferreira
Room: U4-03Speakers
Arminda Manuela Gonçalves, Adelaide Freitas, Margarida Cardoso, João CordeiroSolicited Session: Classification in Economics
Chair: Mariangela Zenga
Room: U3-09Speakers
Erika Grammatica, Antonio D’Ambrosio, Marialuisa Restaino, Georgia PanagiotidouSolicited Session: Advances in Bayesian Inference I – Modeling Latent Structures in Complex Data
Chair: Riccardo Corradin
Room: U3-10Speakers
Gertraud Malsiner-Walli, Andrea Sottosanti, Massimo Ventrucci, Leonardo GenesinNote di Scienza” Concert: Le Mezze Stagioni Cesare Carretta & Jazz – Jazz acoustic Strings
Location: Bicocca PavilionWelcome Reception
Location: FarinamiIFCS Council Dinner
Wed July 15
Parallel Sessions
Invited Session: Advances in Functional and Multivariate Data Modeling
Chair: Luigi Augugliaro
Room: 102Speakers
Salvatore Latora, Frédéric Ferraty, Valeria Vitelli, Gerda ClaeskensInvited Session: Object Oriented Spatial Statistics
Chair: Piercesare Secchi
Room: 109Speakers
Luigi Ippoliti, Rosaria Ignaccolo, Karthik Bharath, Teresa BortolottiIMS Invited Session: New Aspects of Data Science and Discovery
Chair: Regina Liu
Room: 111Speakers
Holger Rootzen, Pavlo Mozharovskyi, George Michailidis, Min-Ge XieSFdS and EGC Invited Session: Conceptual and Algorithmic Advances in Clustering
Chair: Christophe Biernacki
Room: 201Speakers
Reda Khoufache, Tom Devynck, Violaine Courrier, Vincent VandewalleSolicited Session: Statistical Methods for Heterogeneous Data in Political and Biomedical Sciences
Chair: Roberto Ascari
Room: 104Speakers
Gabriele Pittarello, Anja Rieker, Agnese M. Di Brisco, Jaromir SantKeynote Talk — Thomas Brendan Murphy
Chair: Rebecca Nugent
Room: 201Partial membership models for model-based soft clustering
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
Invited Session: Clustering Longitudinal Categorical Data
Chair: Raffaella Piccarreta
Room: 104Speakers
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Beatrice Franzolini, Giovanni Romanò, Sylvia Frühwirth-SchnatterInvited Session: Models and Computational Aspects for High-Dimensional and Complex Data
Chair: Anuradha Roy
Room: 109Speakers
Cristina Popescu, Rosanna Verde, Justine Shults, M. Rosário OliveiraSolicited Session: Advances in Hidden Markov Models
Chair: Antonio Punzo
Room: 111Speakers
Luca Brusa, Luca Merlo, Luca Scaffidi Domianello, Mackenzie NealVOC Invited Session: Recent Developments in Tree-based Methods
Chair: Mark de Rooij
Room: 102Speakers
Marjolein Fokkema, Susanne Dandl, Diego Iglesias, Elise DusseldorpInvited Session: Advances in Clustering
Chair: Agustin Mayo Iscar
Room: 201Speakers
Mouhamadou Lamine Ndao, Andrea Cerioli, Patricia Puchhammer, Michael FopLunch
Parallel Sessions
Invited Session: Advances in Robust Statistics: New Methods for New Challenges
Chair: Fabio Centofanti
Room: 111Speakers
Can Hakan Dağıdır, Giovanni Saraceno, Stefan Van Aelst, Francesca TortiInvited Session: Advances in Model-Based Clustering
Chair: Luca Scrucca
Room: 201Speakers
Tanzy Love, Andrea Cappozzo, Laura Anderlucci, Derek YoungISBIS Invited Session: Advances in Clustering and Classification for Business and Industrial Data
Chair: Adalbert Wilhelm
Room: 104Speakers
Giulia Contu, Carmela Iorio, Marco Ortu, Bruno DamasioSolicited Session: Methodological and Computational Developments in Latent Variable Models
Chair: Luca Brusa
Room: 109Speakers
Luca Maestrini, Silvia Pandolfi, Daniele Tancini, Giovanna MenardiSFC Invited session: Hierarchical and Overlapping Clustering Systems: New Theoretical Developments and Applications
Chair: Jean Diatta
Room: 102Speakers
Patrice Bertrand, Nadia Tahiri, Julien Ah-Pine, Pascal PréaAwards Ceremony
Room: 201Keynote Talk — Adrian Raftery (Research Medal Winner)
Chair: Angela Montanari
Room: 201Bayesian Model Selection for Mixture Models and Stochastic Block Models via the THAMES Estimator
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
Contributed Session: Applications in Economics and Social Science
Room: 104Speakers
Małgorzata Ćwiek, Katarzyna Kuziak, Ewa Genge, Marcin Pełka, Jasminka DobšaContributed Session: Advances in Unsupervised Learning
Room: 102Speakers
Mariaelena Bottazzi Schenone, Chiara Masci, Stefan Mathes, Trung Dung Tran, Brad CarlinContributed Session: Classification and Pattern Recognition
Room: 111Speakers
Guangliang Chen, Benedetta Celeste, François Bavaud, Theresa Scharl, Mohammadreza BakhtyariContributed Session: Model-based Clustering II
Room: 201Speakers
Edoardo Redivo, Elisa Muratore, Rosa Fabbricatore, Hung Tong, Ekaterina KsiunovaContributed Session: Multivariate Data Modeling
Room: 109Speakers
Lucia Filippozzi, Stefano Peluso, Humphrey Brydon, Dorota Rozmus, Litty MathewGuided Tour
IFCS Council Meeting
Conference Dinner
Location: Cortile del ‘700 (Aperitif) & Cortile del Filarete (Dinner), Ca’ Granda (Univ. Milano)Thu July 16
Parallel Sessions
Invited Session: Advances in Finite Mixture Models
Chair: Roberto Rocci
Room: U4-02Speakers
Roberto Di Mari, Paul McNicholas, Francesca Martella, Marta Nai RusconeInvited Session: Network Clustering and Blockmodeling II
Chair: Riccardo Rastelli
Room: SironiSpeakers
Anuška Ferligoj, Francesco Bartolucci, Ioannis Ntzoufras, Vladimir BatageljIASE Invited Session: Data Science Teaching and Learning
Chair: Daniel Frischemeier
Room: U4-01Speakers
Rolf Biehler, Sarah Schönbrodt, Aisling Leavy, Joachim EngelSolicited Session: Symbolic Data Analysis: Connecting Concepts and Complex Data
Chair: Sónia Dias
Room: U3-08Speakers
Anuradha Roy, Oldemar Rodriguez, Rui Nunes, Telmo Silva FilhoContributed Session: New Perspectives in Clustering
Room: U3-09Speakers
Angelos Markos, Valentina Veronesi, Maura Coniglione, Adalbert WilhelmContributed Session: Advanced Statistical Methods for Complex Data Analysis
Room: U3-10Speakers
Mark De Rooij, Boris Mirkin, Matteo Ventura, Ilenia Di BattistaPresidential Invited Talk — Sugnet Lubbe
Chair: Krzysztof Jajuga
Room: SironiPrincipal Component Analysis Biplots in Symbolic Data Analysis
Coffee Break
Parallel Sessions
JCS Invited Session: Statistical Modeling and Dimensionality Reduction
Chair: Yoshiro Yamamoto
Room: U3-08Speakers
Yuichi Mori, Naoto Yamashita, Hiroyasu Abe, Hiroe SetoMDAG Invited Session: Multivariate Visualization in Action
Chair: Raeesa Ganey
Room: U3-09Speakers
Rosaria Lombardo, Roelof Coetzer, Nompilo Mabaso, Johan FerreiraInvited Session: Advances in Symbolic Data Analysis
Chair: Paula Brito
Room: U4-02Speakers
Eufrasio Lima Neto, Dylan Benavides, Lynne Billard, Sónia DiasSolicited Session: Latent Variable and Clustering Models for High-Dimensional and Complex Data
Chair: Michael Fop
Room: U4-01Speakers
Caitlin Kral, Felice Lamberti, Alessandro Casa, Koffi AmezouwuiGSDA Invited Session: Classification, Dimensionality Reduction and Clustering for Mixed-Type Data
Chair: Angelos Markos
Room: SironiSpeakers
Efthymios Costa, Carlo Cavicchia, Patrick Groenen, Alfonso Iodice D’EnzaVOC Invited Session: Interpretable Machine Learning: Inference, Interactions and Causality
Chair: Marjolein Fokkema
Room: U3-10Speakers
Mark van de Wiel, Roman Hornung, Ioan Gabriel Bucur, Giorgio SpadacciniLunch
Presidential Address — Krzysztof Jajuga
Chair: Marc de Rooij
Room: SironiData Science and Artificial Intelligence – historical links and future challenges
Parallel Sessions
Invited Session: Graphical Models and Statistical Learning for Network Data
Chair: Gianluca Sottile
Room: U4-02Speakers
Alberto Roverato, Maarten Marsman, Antonino Abbruzzo, Roberto RondinelliInvited Session: SAFE Artificial Intelligence
Chair: Marco Riani
Room: U3-09Speakers
Gennaro Auricchio, Gloria Polinesi, Alessandro Piergallini, Sofia VeiSolicited Session: Advances in Bayesian Inference II – Structured Probabilistic Model
Chair: Riccardo Corradin
Room: U3-10Speakers
Federico Castelletti, Louise Alamichel, Yordan Raykovy-SIS Solicited Session: Model-Based Clustering
Chair: Jaromir Sant
Room: U3-08Speakers
Giacomo Francisci, Dalila Failli, Marco Dalla Pria, Giovanni PoliSolicited Session: Statistical Learning of Preferences: Rankings, Partial Orders, Ratings, and Clustering
Chair: Antonio D’Ambrosio
Room: U4-01Speakers
Geoff Nicholls, Luiza Piancastelli, Maurizio Romano, Rosaria SimoneCLADAG Invited Session: Advances in Latent Structure Modeling
Chair: Marco Ortu
Room: Sironi