<div dir="auto"></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>De: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">David Munoz</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:david.munoz@fulbrightmail.org">david.munoz@fulbrightmail.org</a>></span><br>Date: dom, 27 de out de 2019 05:25<br>Subject: LACSC 2020<br>To: Augusto Fadel <<a href="mailto:augustofadel@gmail.com">augustofadel@gmail.com</a>>, Carlos Cesar Trucios Maza <<a href="mailto:ctrucios@gmail.com">ctrucios@gmail.com</a>>, Christian Eduardo Galarza Morales <<a href="mailto:cgalarza88@gmail.com">cgalarza88@gmail.com</a>>, David Fernando Munoz Negron <<a href="mailto:davidm@itam.mx">davidm@itam.mx</a>>, Elena Gabriela Chicaiza Mora <<a href="mailto:gachisbar@gmail.com">gachisbar@gmail.com</a>>, Ernesto Ponsot Balaguer <<a href="mailto:ernesto.pb@gmail.com">ernesto.pb@gmail.com</a>>, Gerardo Rafael Manuell <<a href="mailto:gmanuellcid@gmail.com">gmanuellcid@gmail.com</a>>, Holger Geovanni Cevallos Valdivieso <<a href="mailto:holgceva@espol.edu.ec">holgceva@espol.edu.ec</a>>, Hudson da Silva Torrent <<a href="mailto:hudsontorrent@gmail.com">hudsontorrent@gmail.com</a>>, Inacio Andruski Guimaraes <<a href="mailto:andruski@utfpr.edu.br">andruski@utfpr.edu.br</a>>, Javier Linkolk López Gonzales <<a href="mailto:javierlinkolk@gmail.com">javierlinkolk@gmail.com</a>>, Johan Van Horebeek <<a href="mailto:horebeek@cimat.mx">horebeek@cimat.mx</a>>, Juan José Fernández Durán <<a href="mailto:jfdez@itam.mx">jfdez@itam.mx</a>>, Julio Santaella Castell <<a href="mailto:julio.santaella@inegi.org.mx">julio.santaella@inegi.org.mx</a>>, Lila Ricci <<a href="mailto:lricci@mdp.edu.ar">lricci@mdp.edu.ar</a>>, Lilia Ramirez Ramirez <<a href="mailto:llramirezramirez@gmail.com">llramirezramirez@gmail.com</a>>, Lucas da Cunha Godoy <<a href="mailto:lucasdac.godoy@gmail.com">lucasdac.godoy@gmail.com</a>>, Luis Moncayo <<a href="mailto:luis.moncayo@itam.mx">luis.moncayo@itam.mx</a>>, Marcelo Bourguignon <<a href="mailto:m.p.bourguignon@gmail.com">m.p.bourguignon@gmail.com</a>>, Ramon Giraldo <<a href="mailto:rgiraldoh@unal.edu.co">rgiraldoh@unal.edu.co</a>>, Ricardo Ehlers <<a href="mailto:ehlers@icmc.usp.br">ehlers@icmc.usp.br</a>>, Silivia Regina Costa Lopes <<a href="mailto:silviarc.lopes@gmail.com">silviarc.lopes@gmail.com</a>>, Song Won Park <<a href="mailto:sonwpark@usp.br">sonwpark@usp.br</a>>, Valerio Anselmo Reisen <<a href="mailto:valderioanselmoreisen@gmail.com">valderioanselmoreisen@gmail.com</a>>, Xavier Eduardo Buenaño <<a href="mailto:xgoodyear@gmail.com">xgoodyear@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Dear colleague,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">The Department of Statistics and the
Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering of the Instituto Tecnológico
Autónomo de México (ITAM) are proud to announce the V Latin American
Conference on Statistical Computing (LACSC 2020) to be held in Mexico City from
June 9 to June 11, 2020. Before the beginning of LACSC 2020 (on June 7-8,
2020), the 3rd LARS-IASC School on Computational Statistics and Data Science
will take place at the ITAM facilities. The theme of the School will be
“Stochastic Simulation and Reinforcement Learning”. Keynote speakers and
invited instructors will be announced.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">LACSC is the annual conference of the
Latin American Regional Section of the International Association for
Statistical Computing (LARS-IASC). The main purpose of LACSC is to foster the
progress of the theory, methods and practice of statistical computing in Latin
America. In 2020 we will have the 5<sup>th</sup> edition of LASCS in Mexico
City, following its previous annual editions of 2016 in Gramado (Brazil),
Valparaíso (Chile), San José (Costa Rica), and Guayaquil (Ecuador). LACSC
invites contributions on Statistical Computing, Data Analysis, Multivariate
Statistics, Classification, Data Mining, Optimization, Modeling, Applications,
Big Data, Optimization Heuristics, Stochastic Simulation, Machine Learning.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Please, find enclosed a Call for Participation, and further
information on LACSC 2020 and the 3rd LARS-IASC School on Computational
Statistics and Data Science </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">can be found in our website </span><a href="http://lacsc2020.itam.mx./" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow",sans-serif">http://lacsc2020.itam.mx./</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black">We look forward to meeting you in Mexico City.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:12pt;color:black">Kind regards,</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><i><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">The Local Organizing
Committee LACSC 2020:</span></i><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span lang="ES-MX" style="font-size:12pt;color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Luis Moncayo Martínez (Chair)</span></p>

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Barrios Zamudio</span><span style="font-size:12pt;color:black"></span></p></div>
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