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Cordialmente, Enea Bongiorno

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: iwfos2025 iwfos2025@uniupo.it Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2024 at 11:43 Subject: IWFOS2025 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT To: iwfos2025 iwfos2025@uniupo.it

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Dear Colleagues,

Dear Friends,

Following the success of the previous five editions held in Toulouse-France (2008), Santander-Spain (2011), Stresa-Italy (2014), A Coruña-Spain (2017), and Brno-Czech Republic (online 2021), it is our pleasure to announce the

* 6th International Workshop on*

*Functional and Operatorial Statistics*

*IWFOS2025*

June 25 – 27, 2025

Novara (Italy)

*LOCATION*

The workshop will take place in the *Auditorium Cattaneo* at Complesso Perrone in Novara, from 25th to 27th of June, 2025.

*PRIORITIZED TOPICS*

The topics of this workshop will privilege infinite-dimensional statistical problems or methods with special emphasis on:

· Statistical modelling for functional variables,

· Functional Data Analysis,

· Operator-based Statistics,

· Background for Statistics in infinite-dimensional spaces;

· High-dimensional Statistics.

We wish to encourage also contributions in *Machine Learning* in order to foster relations between all these different fields of modern statistics and to contribute to their future development.

*INVITED SPEAKERS*

The following scientists/researchers have accepted to attend:

· Anne van Delft, Columbia University NY, USA

· Holger Dette, RUHR-University Bochum, Germany

· Wenceslao Gonzalez Manteiga, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

· Karel Hron, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic

· Ioannis Kalogridis, Katolieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

· Alessandra Menafoglio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

· Pavlo Mozharovskyi, Telecom Paris, France

· Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University, USA

· Shahin Tavakoli, University of Geneva, Switzerland

· Simone Vantini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

*SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE*

*Co-Chairs*

· Germán Aneiros (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)

· Aldo Goia (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

*Members of the SPC*

· John Aston (University of Cambridge, UK)

· Graciela Boente (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

· Hervé Cardot (Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)

· Manuel Febrero Bande (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)

· Sonja Greven (Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)

· Eduardo García Portugués (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)

· Siegfried Hörmann (Graz University of Technology, Austria)

· Daniel Hlubinka (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

· David Kraus (Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Repulic)

· Sara Lopez-Pintado (Northeastern University, Boston, USA)

· Dominik Liebl (University of Bonn, Germany)

· Stanislav Nagy (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

· Juhyun Park (ENSIIE, Évry, France)

· Matthew Reimherr (Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA)

· Hanlin Shang (Macquarie University, Australia)

· Laura Sangalli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

· Piercesare Secchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

· Rosanna Verde (Università della Campania, Caserta, Italy)

· Jane-Ling Wang (University of California, Davis, USA)

· Yoav Zemel (EPFL SB MATH, Lausanne, Switzerland)

*ORGANIZING COMMITTEE*

*Co-Chairs*

· Enea Bongiorno (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)

· Marie Hušková (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)

*Members of the OC*

· Francesca Centrone (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)

· Lax Chan (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)

· Agnese Di Brisco (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)

· Aldo Goia (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)

· Rosalba Ignaccolo (Università di Torino, Italy)

· Caterina May (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)

· Alessandra Menafoglio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

· Sylvie Viguier-Pla (Université de Perpignan, France)

*SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION*

According to the format of the previous editions, there will be the possibility to submit proposals for oral communications that will be selected by the Scientific Committee. The workshop has no parallel sessions with about 30 *Oral communications* and distributed over 5 half days. A *Poster session* will be organized including the unselected contributions for oral communications.

*PUBLICATIONS*

A book of proceedings edited by Springer and containing the selected oral/poster communications (6-8 pages) will be made available in on-line format at each participant. The meeting will be the starting point for a *Special Issue* of the *Journal of Multivariate Analysis*. It is worth mentioning that this special issue is not only open to the presentations in IWFOS 2025 but also to any other innovative contributions in the field.

More information will be published in a forthcoming website.

Thank you for your attention,

Hoping see you in Novara,

With our best regards,

Germán Aneiros, Enea Bongiorno, Aldo Goia, Marie Hušková

======================================================= IWFOS2025 Secretary Dipartimento di Studi per l'Economia e l’Impresa Università del Piemonte Orientale Via Perrone, 18 - 28100 Novara (Italy) e-mail: iwfos2025@uniupo.it