The Workshop on Probabilistic and Statistical Methods is an initiative of the Programa Interinstitucional de Pós-Graduação em Estatística do ICMC- USP e UFSCar which brings together the statistics research groups from ICMC-USP and UFSCar, at São Carlos/SP, Brazil.

This meeting intends to discuss new developments in statistics, probability and their applications. Activities include invited speaker sessions, short talks, a poster session and a short course devoted to graduate students. The topics of this meeting include probability and stochastic processes, statistical inference, regression models, survival analyses and complex stochastic systems. The aim of the workshop is to stimulate the exchange of experiences with scientific investigation in statistics and probability.

CERTIFICATES:   conferences    -    communications    -    posters    -    participation

Invited Speakers

• Afrânio Vieira, UNB
• Alina Von Davier, ETS - Educational Testing Service
• Carlos Alberto de Bragança Pereira, IME/USP
• Ernesto Mordecki, Universidad de la Republica
• Filidor Edilfonso Vilca Labra, IMECC/UNICAMP
• Hua-Hua Chang, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
• Jose Antonio Mendez-Bermudez, Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla
• Juvêncio Santos Nobre, UFC
• Sandro Gallo, UFRJ
• Yuri Suhov, Cambridge University - IME/USP

Minicourse

• Victor Leiva, Universidad de Valparaíso and Michelli Barros da Silva, UFCG

Scientific Committee

• Fabio Prates Machado, IME/USP
• Francisco Louzada Neto, ICMC/USP
• Nancy Lopes Garcia, IMECC/UNICAMP
• Mário de Castro Andrade Filho, ICMC/USP

Organizing Committee

• Carlos Alberto Ribeiro Diniz, UFSCar (Coordinator)
• Dorival Leão Pinto Junior, ICMC/USP
• Mariana Cúri, ICMC/USP
• Pablo Martin Rodriguez, ICMC/USP (Coordinator)

For additional information, please contact: Pablo Rodriguez (pablor@icmc.usp.br).