CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
The final schedule can be found here.
The final Book of Abstracs can be found here.
All times are in BRT (Brasilia Time), i.e. UTC/GMT – 3 hours
October 28, 2021:
- 08h00-08h30: Opening Ceremony
- 08h30-09h30: Keynote Speaker 1: Ronald L. Wasserstein (Executive Director, American Statistical
Association): Moving to a World Beyond p<0.05
- 09h30-10h00: Break
- 10h00-11h00: Keynote Speaker 2: João Carreira (Research Scientist, DeepMind): General
Perception
- 11h10-12h40: Round Table 1 – The challenges of Data Science (John Bailer; Luciano Oliveira, and
Pedro Silva)
- 12h40-14h00: Lunch
- 14h00-18h00: Short course 1 (4h, PT; Hugo Carvalho; Applications of Markov Models in Music)
October 29, 2021:
- 08h00-09h00: Keynote Speaker 3: Narayanaswamy Balakrishnan (Professor, McMaster University,
Canada): Family of mean-mixtures of multivariate normal distributions: Properties, inference and
assessment of multivariate skewness
- 09h00-09h10: Break
- 09h10-10h10: Keynote Speaker 4: Nancy Ruonan Zhang (Professor, University of Pennsylvania,
USA): DNA Copy Number Profiling from Bulk Tissues to Single Cells
- 10h10-10h30: Break
- 10h30-12h00: Round Table 2 - The future of Statistical education (Denise Silva, Nalini Ravishanker,
and Marcos Magalhães)
- 12h00-14h00: Lunch
- 14h00-18h00:
- Short course 2 (4h, EN; David Banks; Nonparametric Regression)
- Short course 3 (4h, PT; Anderson Ara and Samuel Macêdo; Introduction to Big Data
Analytics with R)
- 18h00-20h00: Poster session – Students of the Specialization on Data Science and Big Data (UFBA)
October 30, 2021:
- 08h00-10h00: Poster session – All contributed posters
- 10h00-11h00: Keynote Speaker 5: Francisco Louzada (Professor, University of São Paulo, Brazil):
Reliability in Brazil: Roads for approaching industry
- 11h00-11h10: Break
- 11h10-12h10: Keynote Speaker 6: Stephen Penneck (President, International Statistical Institute):
Statistical Leadership
- 12h10-12h20: Closing ceremony
- 12h20-14h00: Lunch
- 14h00-18h00:
- Short course 4 (4h, EN; Tahir Ekin; Fraud Analytics)
- Short course 5 (4h, PT; Crysttian Paixão; Preparation of Textual Database for Analysis)
