ESI01: Functional data analysis: theory and applications Organizer: Jeng-Ming Chiou Siegfried Hormann, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Xiaoke Zhang, University of Delaware, USA. Wenceslao González-Manteiga, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
ESI02: Multivariate extremes and applications Organizer: Armelle Guillou Holger Drees, University of Hamburg, Germany. John Einmahl, Tilburg University, Netherlands. Michael Falk, University of Wuerzburg, Germany.
ESI03: Recent advances in robust statistics Organizers: Juan Romo Luis Angel García Escudero, University of Valladolid, Spain. Marco Riani, University of Parma, Italy. Chistophe Croux, KU Leuven, Belgium.
ESI04: The interface between machine learning and statistics Organizers: Mattias Villani Thomas Schön, Uppsala University, Sweden. Marc Diesenroth, Imperial College London, UK. Ivan Titov, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
CFE 2016 Special Invited Sessions
CSI01: Noncausal time series models Organizer: Alain Hecq Christian Gourieroux, University of Toronto & CREST, Canada and France. Markku Lanne, University of Helsinki, Finland. Gianluca Cubadda, Universita di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy.
CSI02: Combining forecasts Organizer: Christos Savva Francesco Ravazzolo, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy. Ekaterini Panopoulou, University of Kent, UK. Alessandra Amendola, University of Salerno, Italy.
CSI03: Efficiency results in high dimension Organizer: Marc Hallin Noureddine El Karoui, UC Berkeley, USA. Alexei Onatski, University of Cambridge, UK. Davy Paindaveine, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.
CSI04: Financial time series forecasting Organizer: Jeroen Rombouts Arnaud Dufays, Laval University, Canada. Ruben Crevits, KU Leuven, Belgium. Francesco Violante, CREATES Aarhus University, Denmark.