[ABE-L] VI COBAL, Lima, 19-21/6/2019

[Hedibert Lopes]

The VI Latin American Bayesian Conference (congreso.pucp.edu.pe/cobal-vi/es/) will take place in Lima, Peru on June 19 - 21, 2019.  The meeting will be hosted by the campus of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. This is the sixth of a series of meetings that took place in Ubatuba, Brasil (2002), Los Cabos, México (2005), Pucón, Chile (2011), Medellín, Colombia (2015) and Guanajuato, México (2017).  The COBAL serve to disseminate Bayesian ideas within the Latin American statistical community, offering interested researchers and academics in the region the opportunity for interaction and discussion.  COBAL put particular emphasis in fostering participation of junior researchers.

The members of the scientific committee of the VI COBAL are:
Cristian Bayes, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú;
Hedibert Freitas Lopes, Insper, Brasil;
Peter Mueller, UT Austin, USA;
Luis Pericchi, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico;
Fernando Quintana, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile;
Francisco Javier Rubio, King's College London, UK
Juan Carlos Salazar Uribe, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Colombia
Bruno Sansó, University of California Santa Cruz, USA (chair)
Alexandra Schmidt, McGill University, Canada.

The member of the local organizing committee are:
Cristian Bayes, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú (chair);
Luis Benites, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú;
Rocío Maehara, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú;
Zaida Quiroz, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú;
Giancarlo Sal y Rosas, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú;
Luis Valdivieso, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Perú.

The program will consist of short courses, plenary lectures, invited sessions, contributed sessions and posters. We have confirmed the
following three short courses:
Francisco J. Diaz, University of Kansas, USA - Empirical Bayesian methods in personalized medicine
Hedibert Freitas Lopes, Insper, Brasil - Bayesian Computation
Raquel Prado, University of California Santa Cruz. USA - Time Series.

The following is the list of confirmed plenary speakers:
Alicia Carraquirri, Iowa State University, USA - Conferencia "Pilar iglesias"
Mauricio Sadinle, University of Washington, USA - Conferencia "Francisco Torres" 
Osvaldo Anacleto, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil
Isadora Antoniano-Villalobos, Bocconi University, Italia
Dani Gamerman, UFRJ, Brasil
Lurdes Inoue, University of Washington, USA
Abel Rodriguez, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Catalina Vallejos, University College London, UK

More information is available at congreso.pucp.edu.pe/cobal-vi/es/.

We are currently accepting invited session proposals. Invited sessions will have three or four speakers clustered around a theme in Bayesian
theory, methods or applications. Please submit your proposal no later than November 1 to Bruno Sansó (bruno em soe.ucsc.edu) with the name of the session and the names of the confirmed invited speakers (proponents are free to include themselves).

Please notice that, as it is traditional at COBAL meetings, the lectures and posters will be delivered in Spanish or Portuguese, with slides written in English.

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