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Second European Conference on Highly Structured Stochastic Systems

September 14-18, 1999

Pavia, Italy

Mathematics

Host: Palazzo Centro S. Tommaso
Sponsor: University of Pavia, Faculty of Economics and Department of Economics and Quantitative Methods, Italian Statistical Society (S.I.S), Italy's National Statistical Institute (ISTAT).
Homepage: http://www.unipv.it/hsss99/hsss.html

Organizers: Guido Consonni (University of Pavia, Chair), Paolo Giudici (University of Pavia), Antonietta Mira (University of Insubria), Carlo Berzuini (University of Pavia), Sonia Petrone (University of Insubria)

Description:
Highly Structured Stochastic Systems: Complex statistical models, built by local specification to ensure parsimonous conditional independence relationships, are being used increasingly in many domains of application. They can demonstrate great complexity globally, and thus describe and predict in complicated situations, yet simple local dependencies facilitate modelling, inference and computation. Such Highly Structured Stochastic Systems (HSSS) are a major tool in epidemiology, genetics, expert systems, image analysis, spatial statistics, and many other areas.

This conference will aim to present the state of the art of computational and statistical aspects of modelling, inference and computation in HSSS, with particular emphasis on applications of HSSS ideas in several fields, including genetics, biomedical research and epidemiology, environmental application, spatial statistics and expert systems. Also basic theory and methodological aspects such as model choice and criticism, dynamic modelling, and non-parametric approaches will be part of the central theme.

Speakers: David Clayton (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Christopher Bishop (Microsoft Research, Cambridge), Peter Clifford (Oxford, United Kingdom), Peter Donnelly (Oxford, United Kingdom), Richard Gill (Utrecht, The Netherlands), Nils Lid Hjort (Oslo, Norway), Katja Ickstadt (Darmstadt, Germany), Niels Keiding (Copenhagen, Denmark), Jeffrey Rosenthal (Toronto, Canada), Tina Hviid Rydberg (Oxford, United Kingdom), Tobias Rydén (Cambridge, United Kingdom), Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba (Rome, Italy), Nanny Wermuth (ZUMA, Germany)

Date received: March 31, 1999