<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Prezados Associados, bom dia!</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">A quem possa interessar. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:monospace">Atenciosamente, </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>De: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Aldo Goia</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:aldo.goia@uniupo.it">aldo.goia@uniupo.it</a>></span><br>Date: ter., 16 de abr. de 2024 às 06:48<br>Subject: IWFOS2025 - FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT<br>To: iwfos2025 <<a href="mailto:iwfos2025@uniupo.it">iwfos2025@uniupo.it</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Apologies for cross-posting</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Friends,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"> 6<sup>th</sup> International Workshop on</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:16pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">Functional and
Operatorial Statistics</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:15pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red">IWFOS2025</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:8pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:red"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">June 25 – 27, 2025</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="margin:0cm;text-align:center;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Novara (Italy)</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">LOCATION</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The workshop will take place in the <i>Auditorium Cattaneo</i> at Complesso Perrone in Novara, from 25th to 27th
of June, 2025.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PRIORITIZED TOPICS</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The topics of this workshop will privilege infinite-dimensional
statistical problems or methods with special emphasis on:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Statistical modelling for functional variables,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Functional Data Analysis,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Operator-based Statistics,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 18pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:7pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Background for Statistics in infinite-dimensional spaces;</span></p>
<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0cm 36pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Symbol">·<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">
</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">High-dimensional Statistics</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We wish to encourage also contributions in <b>Machine
Learning</b> in order to foster relations between all these different
fields of modern statistics and to contribute to their future development.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">INVITED SPEAKERS</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The following scientists/researchers have accepted to
attend:</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anne van Delft, Columbia University NY, USA</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Holger Dette, RUHR-University Bochum, Germany</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wenceslao
Gonzalez Manteiga, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Karel Hron,
Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ioannis Kalogridis,
Katolieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alessandra Menafoglio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Pavlo
Mozharovskyi, Telecom Paris, France</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Anuj Srivastava, Florida State University, USA</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Shahin
Tavakoli, University of Geneva, Switzerland</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Simone Vantini, Politecnico di Milano, Italy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM COMMITTEE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Co-Chairs</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Germán Aneiros (Universidade da Coruña, Spain)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Aldo Goia (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Members of the SPC</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">John Aston
(University of Cambridge, UK)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Graciela
Boente (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hervé Cardot (Université
de Bourgogne, Dijon, France)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Manuel Febrero
Bande (University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sonja Greven
(Humboldt-Universität Berlin, Germany)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Eduardo García
Portugués (Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Siegfried
Hörmann (Graz University of Technology, Austria)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Daniel
Hlubinka (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">David Kraus
(Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Repulic)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sara
Lopez-Pintado (Northeastern University, Boston, USA)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dominik Liebl
(University of Bonn, Germany)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stanislav Nagy
(Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Juhyun Park
(ENSIIE, Évry, France)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Matthew
Reimherr (Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hanlin Shang (Macquarie
University, Australia)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Laura Sangalli (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Piercesare Secchi (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rosanna Verde (Università della Campania, Caserta, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Jane-Ling Wang
(University of California, Davis, USA)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Yoav Zemel (EPFL
SB MATH, Lausanne, Switzerland)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;text-transform:uppercase">ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Co-Chairs</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Enea Bongiorno (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Marie Hušková
(Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Members of the OC</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Francesca Centrone (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Lax Chan (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Agnese Di Brisco (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Aldo Goia (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Rosalba Ignaccolo (Università di Torino, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Caterina May (Università del Piemonte Orientale, Novara, Italy)</span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Alessandra Menafoglio (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) </span></p>
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</span></span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Sylvie Viguier-Pla (Université de Perpignan, France)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATION</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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 <i>Oral communications</i> and distributed over 5 half
days. A <i>Poster session</i> will be organized including the unselected contributions
for oral communications.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">PUBLICATIONS</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">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
<i>Special Issue</i> of the <b>Journal of Multivariate Analysis</b>. 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. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">More information will be published in a forthcoming
website.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Thank you for your attention,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Hoping see you in Novara,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">With our best regards,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Germán Aneiros, Enea Bongiorno, Aldo Goia, Marie Hušková</span></p>
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<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">=======================================================</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">IWFOS2025 Secretary</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Dipartimento di Studi per l'Economia e l’Impresa</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Università del Piemonte Orientale</span><br>
<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Via Perrone, 18 - 28100 Novara (Italy)</span><br>
</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">e-mail: </span><a href="mailto:iwfos2025@uniupo.it" style="color:blue" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">iwfos2025@uniupo.it</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p>
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</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:small">Aldo Goia</span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">Dipartimento di Studi per l'Economia e l'Impresa</span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">Università del Piemonte Orientale "A. Avogadro"</span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">Via Perrone, 18 - 28100 Novara</span><br style="font-size:small"><span style="font-size:small">Tel. +39 0321 375319 - Fax. +39 0321 375305</span><br></div></div></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Luana Takahashi</div><div>Secretária ABE</div><div>Tel: 11 3091-6261</div><div>Rua do Matão,1010 sala 250A</div><div><a href="http://www.redeabe.org.br" target="_blank">www.redeabe.org.br</a></div></div></div></div>