Dear all,

we are pleased to announce that the third meeting of the *StaTalk* series will be held at *Facoltà di Economia di Sapienza Università di Roma*on *September 9, 2016*.

StaTalks are one-day workshops on statistical topics during which the hosting group introduces and overviews the main research interests of their members. Aimed at Master’s and PhD students, as well as at post-docs and young researchers, StaTalks are intended to be informal gatherings which allow for a more proficient interaction between presenters and participants. They typically feature some introductory tutorials on the main workshop theme and a few seminars that overview more advanced research topics, still kept at an expository level. StaTalks are thus a great opportunity to become acquainted with the workshop main topic, as well as to share and update one's knowledge on the interface of Statistical research in an easy and informal atmosphere. StaTalks are endorsed by Y-SIS ( https://sites.google.com/site/youngsocietaitalianastatistica/), the young section of the Italian Statistical Society.

The topic of the third StaTalk will be on *Computational Tools for Statistical Modelling*. We will present and discuss both standard and new computational methods which represents fundamental tools for new challenging applications, such as economic, finance, genetic and official statistics.

*Programme*

*09.30-10.00 *Opening

*10.00-10.40 *Christian Macaro (SAS System) "*A mixture of heterogeneous models with time dependent weights*"

*10.40-11.10* Coffee break

*11.10-11.50* Clara Grazian (MEMOTEF Department) "*Modelling financial dependence through approximate Bayesian inference*"

*11.50-12.30* Stefano Vaccari (MEMOTEF Department) "*Pricing in the Presence of Social Learning: Modelling Information Aggregation in a Competitive Market*"

*12.30-14.30* Lunch break

*14.30-15.10 *Andrea Tancredi (MEMOTEF Department) "*A Bayesian approach for de-duplication, record linkage and inference with linked data.*"

*15.10-15.50 *Luca Tardella (Department of Statistical Science) "*Alternative approaches for approximating marginal likelihood.*"

*15.50-16.20* Coffee break

*16.20-17.00 *TBA

*17.00-17.30 *Closing

Additional info can be found at the workshop page

https://sites.google.com/site/youngsocietaitalianastatistica/events/statalk/...

REGISTRATION to the third StaTalk are now open.

*No conference fees are due, but registration is mandatory*, using the form available on the website.

Clara Grazian

PhD in Statistics

Research Fellow

*Memotef*

*Facoltà di Economia*

*Sapienza Università di Roma*

via del Castro Laurenziano 9, 00161, Roma