DATE: June 13th-14th
LOCATION: BCAM - Basque Center for Applied Mathematics

AIM:
The aim of the meeting to present recent advances in smoothing methods using a common framework such as penalized splines (P-splines). The main core of the participants have been collaborating during the last 10 years in complex statistical problems in different fields such as mortality, demography, environmental modeling, biostatistics, Bayesian modeling and computational statistical methods.

MAIN TOPICS:
The main topics for discussion will be:

- Recent advances in spatial and spatio-temporal modeling.
- New computationally efficient multidimensional smoothing.
- Forecasting methods using P-splines.
- New challenges in flexible regression with application in bio-medicine.
- Bayesian methods.
- New open challenges in complex data.


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
This scientific Activity is funded by the Basque Government through the BERC 2018-2022 Program, and by Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness MINECO through BCAM Severo Ochoa excellence accreditation SEV-2013-0323 and through project MTM2017-82379-R funded by (AEI/FEDER, UE) and acronym “AFTERAM”.


PARTICIPANTS:
- Ugofilippo Basellini (INED - Institut Nation D'Etudes Démographiques, France)
- Giancarlo Camarda (INED - Institut Nation D'Etudes Démographiques, France)
- Angela Carollo (Max Planck Institute for Demography, Germany)
- Iain D. Currie (Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh, UK)
- Maria Durbán (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain)
- Paul HC Eilers (Erasmus Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands)
- Jutta Gampe (Max Planck Institute for Demography, Germany)
- Philippe Lambert (Université de Liège, Belgium)
- Dae-Jin Lee (BCAM, Bilbao)
- María Xosé Rodríguez Álvarez (BCAM-Ikerbasque, Bilbao)
- Garritt Page (Brigham Young University, USA and BCAM, Bilbao)
- Diana Pérez (BCAM, Bilbao)