=============== SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT Algebraic Statistics 2015 (8-11 June, 2015) University of Genoa, Italy

Dear colleague,

We are organizing a workshop on Algebraic Statistics, 8-11 June, 2015, at the Department of Mathematics, University of Genoa, Italy. The meeting will include invited one-hour plenary talks, shorter contributed talks, a large poster session and three tutorials. We would like to kindly ask you to share this information with everyone who could be interested.

** conference website:http://www.dima.unige.it/~rogantin/AS2015/

** the deadline for abstract submission is now extended: April 30, 2015

** INVITED TALKS - Elvira Di Nardo (University of Basilicata), Symbolic methods in statistics: elegance towards efficiency - Thomas Kahle (OvGU Magdeburg), Algebraic geometry of Poisson regression - Sonja Petrovic (IIT Chicago), What are shell structures of random networks telling us? - Jim Q. Smith (University of Warwick), The geometry of chain event graphs - Bernd Sturmfels (UC Berkeley), Exponential varieties

** TUTORIALS - R package for algebraic statistics, Luis Garcia-Puente (Sam Houston State University). - Information Geometry and Algebraic Statistics on a finite state space and on Gaussian models, Giovanni Pistone (Collegio Carlo Alberto) and Luigi Malagò (Shinshu University and INRIA TAO) - Latent Tree Graphical Models, Piotr Zwiernik (Genoa)

We encourage participation of young researchers, and welcome submissions for contributed talks and posters.

** For information on cheaper accommodation see: http://www.dima.unige.it/~rogantin/AS2015/afford.html

Further information on submission deadlines and other logistics are available on the conference web page.

SPONSORED BY Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita’ di Genova Dipartimento di Scienze e Innovazione Tecnologica, Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale Dipartimento di Scienze Matematiche, Politecnico di Torino

WITH THE PATRONAGE OF Bernoulli Society De Castro Statistics Initiative, Collegio Carlo Alberto, Moncalieri

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE Sonja Kuhnt (Fachhochschule Dortmund) Hugo Maruri-Aguilar (Queen Mary, London) Giovanni Pistone (Collegio Carlo Alberto) Fabio Rapallo (Universita’ del Piemonte Orientale) Eva Riccomagno (University of Genoa) Caroline Uhler (IST Austria) Henry Wynn (London School of Economics) Piotr Zwiernik (University of Genoa)

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On behalf of the Organizing Committee, Fabio Rapallo