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<div><span lang="EN-GB"> </span><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Dear colleague,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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"><span lang="EN-GB"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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 5th 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"><span lang="EN-GB"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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 can be found in our website http://lacsc2020.itam.mx./</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">We look forward to meeting you in Mexico City.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Kind regards,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><br data-mce-bogus="1"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The Local Organizing Committee LACSC 2020:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Luis Moncayo Martínez (Chair)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Ante Salcedo González</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">David Fernando Muñoz Negrón</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Luis Montiel Cendejas</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Ernesto Juvenal Barrios Zamudio</span></p>
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