Dear all,
it is our pleasure to announce the French-Italian workshop
"New Challenges in Statistics for Social Sciences",
which will take place on 16-17 October 2017 at Ca' Foscari University of Venice,
Department of Economics (Meeting Room 1, Campus Economico, Fondamenta San Giobbe 873).
This workshop aims at presenting recent developments in both theoretical and applied statistics
for social sciences, with particular attention to economics and finance. The workshop will feature
six presentations by international speakers and two tutorial classes will be offered:
- Bayesian inference for Poisson processes, by prof. Fabrizio Ruggeri (CNR IMATI of Milan)
- Introduction to Approximate Bayesian Computation by prof. Christian Robert (Université Paris Dauphine and University of
Warwick).
The sponsors of the event are:
- Université Franco-Italienne (UFI)
- GRETA research group
- Dipartimento di Economia dell'Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia
All interested researchers, as well as PhD students, are invited to participate. The participation is free, but
for organization reasons, people interested in attending the Workshop are kindly requested to contact the local organizers within
October 7 via the following account:
We apologize for cross-posting and look forward to seeing you in Venice!
Best regards,
Monica Billio, Roberto Casarin and Matteo Iacopini