UNIVERSITÀ CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA DIPARTIMENTO DI STATISTICA International Workshop on Robust Statistics and October 26-28, 2005, TREVISO (Italy) The main objectives of this workshop are: to organize the development of Robust Statistics tools in R and to facilitate the interaction and collaboration between researchers interested in the computational aspects of Robust Statistics. Details and registration information are available on-line at http://www.dst.unive.it/rsr or by e-mail to [email protected]. The workshop is organized by CLAUDIO AGOSTINELLI (local organizer), Ca’ Foscari University - [email protected] PETER FILZMOSER, Vienna University of Technology - [email protected] MATIAS SALIBIAN-BARRERA, University of British Columbia - [email protected] LIST OF INVITED PARTICIPANTS Possamai - Servizio comunicazione e relazioni esterne Ca’ Foscari Bellio Ruggero, Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Università di Udine, Udine, Italia Cantoni Eva, Department of Economics, University of Geneva, Switzerland Dutter Rudolf, Department of Statistics & Probability Theory, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Edlund Ove, Department of Mathematics, Luleå University of Technology, Luleå Sweden Fried Roland, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Hennig Christian, Department of Statistical Science, University College London, London, UK Konis Kjell, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK Kovac Arne, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom Leisch Friedrich, Department of Statistics & Probability Theory, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria Maechler Martin, Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zentrum, Zürich, Switzerland Marazzi Alfio, Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine, Universty of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland Maronna Ricardo, Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina Masarotto Guido, Dipartimento di Statistica, Università di Padova, Padova, Italia Oja Hannu, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland The workshop is sponsored by: Parpinel Francesca, Dipartimento di Statistica, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italia Pellizzari Paolo, Dipartimento di Matematica, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italia Pizzi Claudio, Dipartimento di Statistica, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italia Riani Marco, Department of Economics, University of Parma, Parma, Italy Romanazzi Mario, Dipartimento di Statistica, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italia Ronchetti Elvezio, Department of Econometrics, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Ruckdeschel Peter, Universität Bayreuth Ruckstuhl Andreas, Institute for Data Analysis and Process Design, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland Todorov Valentin, Austro-Control, Vienna, Austria Van Aelst Stefan, Department of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Ghent University, Gent, Belgium Vedaldi Romano, Dipartimento di Statistica, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italia Ventura Laura, Dipartimento di Statistica, Università di Padova, Padova, Italia Werner Mark, Department of Mathematics, The American University in Cairo, Egypt Yohai Victor, Departamento de Matemáticas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina UNIVERSITÀ CA’ FOSCARI VENEZIA www.unive.it and supported by: R FOUNDATION EUROPEAN SCIENCE FOUNDATION www.r-project.org/foundation/main.html www.esf.org