[Forum SIS] MBC2 2020 - First announcement

[Salvatore Ingrassia]

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MBC2  – 5th International Workshop on 
"Models and Learning for Clustering and Classification"
Dipartimento di Economia e Impresa, Università di Catania
Catania (Italy), September 2-4, 2020

The workshop aims at providing a focus on the state-of-the-art research in the field of statistical models and learning techniques in different areas of clustering and classification. Scientific discussions and debates among young and senior researchers are strongly encouraged. The workshop will take place in Catania (Italy) on September 2-4, 2020.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
Malgorzata Bogdan (Poland), Andrea Cerioli (Italy), Alfonso Gordaliza (Spain), Salvatore Ingrassia (Italy), Julien Jacques (France), Angela Montanari (Italy), Roberto Rocci (Italy), Jeroen K. Vermunt (The Netherlands), Maurizio Vichi (Italy), Weixin Yao (USA).


The scientific program of the workshop is based on:

5/6 main lectures (40'+15' discussion)
21 oral presentations organized in 7 talk sessions (20' for each talk + 25' discussion in each session)
20 Lightning talks (3') + poster session for discussion


CONFIRMED KEYNOTE LECTURERS
- Gianluca BONTEMPI (Machine Learning Group - Département d'Informatique, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium) 
- Jiahua CHEN (Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada) 
- Juan Antonio CUESTA ALBERTOS (Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain) 
- Elisabeth GASSIAT (Laboratoire de Mathématiques d'Orsay, Université Paris-Sud, France) 
- Thomas Brendan MURPHY (University College Dublin, School of Mathematics & Statistics, Dublin, Ireland)


IMPORTANT DATES
May 8, 2020: Submission of an abstract (max 2000 characters) for either paper or poster sessions.
June 8, 2020: Notification of the acceptance.
June 30, 2020: Payment of registration fee (standard registration: 210 euro).
August 26, 2020: Submission of the slides and references (to be uploaded in the dropbox folder).

The workshop will take place at Collegio d’Aragona (Via Ventimiglia 184, 95129 Catania, Italy). 

For more information, visit: http://mbc2.unict.it/

Best regards,

Salvatore Ingrassia



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Salvatore Ingrassia, Ph.D. 
Professor of Statistics
Department of Economics and Business 
Data Science Research Group
University of Catania (Italy)

Corso Italia, 55 - 95129 Catania, Italy 
Tel. +39 095 7537732
Fax +39 095 7537610
e-mail: s.ingrassia at unict.it 
http://www.dei.unict.it/docenti/salvatore.ingrassia
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