Courses   
 
Jim Ramsay (McGill University, Montreal, Canadá) Four Lectures on Functional data analysis

Claudio Landim (IMPA) Interacting particle systems in random environments

Plenary Talks   

• David Brillinger (Berkeley)
  Random Trajectory Modelling and Data Analysis
• Regina Liu (Department of Statistics, Rutgers University)
  Mining Massive Text Data: Classification, Construction of Tracking Statistics and Inference under Misclassification
• Antonio Cuevas (Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) Boundary estimation: Theory and applications
• Arnoldo Frigessi (Centre for Statistics for Innovation University of Oslo and Norwegian Computing Centre
  Covariate modulated false discovery rate
• Montserrat Fuentes (Statistics Department North Carolina State University)
  A multivariate nonparametric Bayesian spatialtemporal modeling framework for hurricane surface wind fields
• Nancy Garcia (Campinas)
  Improved bounds for perfect simulation for one-dimensional loss networks
• Wilfrid Kendall (Warwick)
  Exotic couplings of Brownian motion
• Tom Kurtz (Wisconsin-Madison)
  Particle representations for continuum models
• Domenico Marinucci (Roma "Tor Vergata")
  Some statistics and probability aspects of cosmological data analysis
• John Rice (University of California, Berkeley)
  Detection of gamma-ray pulsars
• Alexandra Schmidt (Rio de Janeiro)
  Spatial Stochastic Frontier Models: Accounting for Unobserved Local Determinants of Inefficiency
• Ralph Neininger (Frankfurt)

Thematics Sessions
Sessions will be 2 hours long. There will be 3 or 4 speakers per session.

1. Statistical analysis of functional data
Organizer: Ricardo Fraiman
Speakers:

• Karine Berzin (Universidad de Valparaiso)
  Asymptotic normality of the Nadaraya-Watson estimator for non-stationary functional data and   applications to telecommunications.
• Manuel Febrero Bande (Santiago de Compostela)
  Depth measures for functional data with applications.
• Winfried Stute (University of Giessen, Germany)
  Statistical Modeling and Analysis in Marketing Research: A Functional Data Approach
• Jane-Ling Wang (Davis)
  Dimension Reduction for Functional Data through Inverse Regression.
• Ana Justel (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid)
  Variable selection for cluster analysis with functional data

2. Statistics of Extremes
Organizer: John Einmahl (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
Speakers:

• Armelle Guillou (Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France)
  Modeling Pairwise Dependence of Maxima in Space. 
• Liang Peng (Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA)
  MLE for tail copula and modeling a tail copula via elliptical copula.
• John Einmahl (Tilburg University, Netherlands)
  Statistics of Extremes under Random Censoring.

4. Statistical Mechanics and Probability
Organizer: Errrico Presuttii
Speakers:

• Stella Brassesco (IVIC, Venezuela)
  Boundary effects for the stochastic Allen--Cahn equation
• Lorenzo Bertini (Università di Roma La Sapienza)
  Title to be announced
• Fabio Prates Machado (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
  Random walks systems on complete graphs

5. Weak dependence, inequalities and applications
Organizer: José-Rafael León
Speakers:

• Michael H. Neumann (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)  
  Probability and moment inequalities for sums of weakly dependent random variables
• Paul Doukhan (ENSAE Paris)
  Weak dependence, models and applications 
• J. R. León (Universidad Central de Venezuela)
  Uniform limit theorems for the integrated periodogram of weakly dependent time series and    their applications to Whittle's estimate.

6. Communication networks
Organizer: Gonzalo Perera.
Speakers:

• María Simón (ANTEL, Uruguay) (tutorial)
• Federico Larroca (ENST, Paris) (invited talk)
• Francisco Piera (U de Chile, Chile) (Invited talk)

7. Bayesian analysis
Organizer: Alicia Carriquiry.
Speakers:

• Peter Mueller,  (University of Texas)
• Gary Rosner, (Rice University)
• Ernesto San Martin
• Tanzi Love

8. Concepts of Independence for Sets of Full Conditional Probability
Organizer: Carlos Pereira
Tentative presentations:

• Teddy Seidenfeld and Fabio G. Cozman (Carnegie Mellon U, USA & USP, Brazil)
  Conditional Independence and Graph-Theoretical Models.
• Matthias Troffaes (Durham University, UK)
  Unbounded Utilities and Null Events in the Theory of Probabilities.
• Ernesto San Martin (PUC, Chile)
  Ignorable Common Information, Null Sets and Basu's First Theorem.
• Andrea Capotorti (Università di Perugia, Italy)
  Concepts of Independence in the Coherency-based Framework.
• Carlos Pereira (USP, Brazil)
  Concepts of Independence and Conditional Probability Measures.
  

9. Robust statistics
Organizer: Andrea Rotnitzky
Speakers:

• Victor Yohai (Buenos Aires)
• Ricardo Maronna (La Plata)
• Daniela Rodriguez (Buenos Aires).

 
10. Randon media and interacting particle systems
Organizer: Luiz Renato Fontes, Federico Camia.
Speakers:

• Federico Camia (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
  Conformal Loop Ensembles and Critical Percolation
  
  
• Maria Eulalia Vares (CBPF, Rio de Janeiro)
  A multi source first-passage percolation system with random obstacles
  
  

11. Stochastic Calculus and Finances
Organizers: Abel Cadenillas and Arturo Kohatsu-Higa.
Speakers:

• José Manuel Corcuera (Universitat de Barcelona, España)
  Jump power assets: a tool for optimization and hedging in a Lévy Market
• Daniel Hernandez-Hernandez (CIMAT, Mexico)
  Robust utility maximization with time consistent penalties
• Luz Rocío Sotomayor (University of Alberta)
  The Consumption-Investment Problem under a Regime Switching Financial Market
• Jorge Zubelli (IMPA, Brasil)
  Option pricing for fast-mean reversion stochastic volatility models

12. Inference in Levy Processes
Organizer: Chang Dorea.
Speakers:

• Holger Rootzen (Chalmers Univ)
  Empirical process theory for extreme clusters
• Ary V. Medino (Univ de Brasilia)
  An approach to the Generalized Langevin Equation via Lévy Process
• Jose Corcuera (Univ. Barcelona)
  Realized Power Variation and Stable Processes

13. Stochastic chains in genomics and lingustics
Organizer: Antonio Galves (USP)
Speakers:

• Ana Georgina Flesia (IAM-Conicet)
• Jesus Garcia (Unicamp)
• Florencia Leonardi (USP)
• Alejandro Maass (Universidad de Chile)
  Coding with variable block-codes genomic sequences