Conference venue
The 45th SIS Scientific Meeting will take place in University of Padua.
June 16, 2010 (morning): Palazzo del Bo' (View Map).
June 16 (afternoon), 17 and 18, 2010: Lecture halls in via Bassi (View Map).
How to reach Padua
For travel information, please follow this link.
Session arrangements
The Conference will include plenary, specialised, contributed and poster sessions. There will also be invited sessions from representatives of some European statistical societies.
Proposals for contributed paper sessions are also invited. These sessions will be similar to standard contributed paper sessions except that someone, usually one of the contributors, organizes a number three/four) of contributed papers into a session prior to submission. Proposals for contributed paper sessions should be emailed to the Program Committee Chair, Nicola Torelli. Upon acceptance of the contributed papers, the Program Committee will confirm the inclusion into the program of the proposed contributed paper session. The Session will be chaired by the organizer.
Submission guidelines
Papers must be written in English according with SIS technical standards and must not exceed 8 pages. Please, follow these links for the current LaTeX and Word standards. Also, please check this example.
Papers can be submitted on-line here. All submissions, except invited talks, are subject to a blind refereeing process. Accepted papers can be exposed in an oral or poster presentation.
Posters must be written according to technical standards defined by the Organizing Committee. Please, see the conference track policies.
Important deadlines
February 22nd, 2010: paper+abstract submission. Notice that both the paper and the abstract must be submitted by this date.
March 30th, 2010: authors notifications.
April 30th, 2010: paper+abstract (final version).
May 10th, 2010: early registration.
June 7th, 2010: poster submission.
Please, notice that the number of posters that can be accepted is limited to 100: posters will be accepted according to a first-come, first-served principle up to this limit.
For self-organized contributed sessions the same deadlines specified for contributed sessions apply.
Plenary Sessions
James J. Heckman (Nobel Laureate in Economics).
June 16th, 2010.
George Casella (Distinguished Professor of Statistics).
June 17th, 2010.
Paul Boyle (President of the British Society for Population Studies).
June 18th, 2010.
Enrico Giovannini (President of the Italian Statistical Institute).
June 17th, 2010.
Specialized Sessions
A list of Specialized Sessions is available here.
Satellite Meetings
Statistics for Complex Problems: The Multivariate Permutation Approach and Related Topics.
Organizing Committee: Silio Rigatti Luchini, Luigi Salmaso.
La Statistica nella Cultura e nella Scuola.
Organizing Committee: Silio Rigatti Luchini.
Pubblica Amministrazione Digitale: Programmazione e Monitoraggio per la Qualità e l'Innovazione.
Organizing Committee: Mario Bolzan, Silio Rigatti Luchini.
Statistica in Azienda, Statistici in Azienda.
Statistician: the Sexy Job in the Next 10 Years.
Organizing Committee: Bruno Scarpa.
Statistics and Environmental Indicators.
Organizing Committee: Andrea Pastore.
Organization
The 45th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society will be organized by the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padua.
Publications
The Book of Abstract, printed for the meeting.
Proceedings - All accepted papers will be published in the SIS2010 Proceedings (USB stick) with ISBN.
A Book in the new International Series Studies in Theoretical and Applied Statistics will be published by Springer under the supervision of several European Statistical Societies. All presenters will be invited to submit their paper for possible publication. Submissions will undergo a blind reviewing process and only the selected papers will be included in the book.
The University of Padua
The University of Padua was founded in 1222, after a period when a number of professors and students left the University of Bologna.
Student life within the early university was organized in nationes, which reflected divisions according to geographical or ethnic origin; the various nationes themselves forming two larger groups: the Citramontani (that is, Italian) and the Ultramontani (that is, those from beyond the Alps).
The 15th century would see the beginning of more than three hundred years of growth in prestige as the University of Padua benefited from the protection of the Venetian Republic. During this period Padua made its great contribution to the nascent scientific revolution, with developments in philosophical thought, in the study of medicine and anatomy and the great discoveries in astronomy, physics and mathematics that are linked with the 18-year period in which Galileo Galilei taught at the university (from 1592 to 1610). One particularly proud moment in the history of the university came in 1678 (June 25), when Elena Cornaro Piscopia gained her degree in Philosophy, becoming the first woman graduate in the world. A school of Statistics was founded in Padua in 1927. Corrado Gini, one of the most important Italian statisticians and first president of the National Institute of Statistics, taught here.
In recognition of the struggle against the Nazi occupation of 1943--45, the university would later receive the Gold Medal for Valour, the only university in Italy to gain such an award.
After the Second World War, the university has increased its contributions to the development of international scientific institutions. In recent years, it has also been able to meet the problems posed by overcrowded facilities by re-deploying over the Veneto region as a whole.