Programme
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Day 1: November 9th , 2018 (Friday)
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08:30 – 09:00 Registration Desk
09:00 – 09:30 Open Ceremony (Room: 6.3 )
09:30 – 10:00 Keynote Speaker: Carlos Braumann (Room: 6.3 ); Title: Population growth in random environments
10:00 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 Keynote Speaker: João Tiago Mexia (Room: 6.3 ); Title: Confidence Ellipsoids for Additive Models
11:00 – 12:30
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Contributed Session C2; Room: 6.3
Chair: Dário Ferreira
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Estimation of foreseeable and unforeseeable risks in motor insurance, Alfredo Reis
Monte Carlo solution of boundary value problem for semilinear isotropic diffusion equation, A.S. Rasulov
Optimal control problem for a non-autonomous SIR model for the Ebola virus, Paulo Rebelo
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11:00 – 12:30
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Contributed Session C1; Room: 6.2
Chair: Célia Nunes
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Adaptive estimation for light-tailed models, Lígia Henriques-Rodrigues
Efficient approximate sampling from k-DPP for large graphs, Diala Wehbe
Mixed effects ANOVA with random sample sizes, Anacleto Mário
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12:30 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 14:30 Keynote Speaker: Karl Moder (Room: 6.3); Title: Testing interaction in unrepeated designs
14:30 – 16:00
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Organized Session S3; Room: 6.3
Chair: Dora Prata Gomes
Title: Statistical Challenges and its applications
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Pareto index estimation through a modification of the probability weighted moment method, Ayana Mateus
Introducing nonparametric predictive inference methods for reproducibility of likelihood ratio tests, Filipe Marques
Comparison of classes of generalized Hill estimators, Frederico Caeiro
Challenges in extremal index estimation, Dora Prata Gomes
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14:30 – 16:00
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Contributed Session C3; Room: 6.2
Chair: Amílcar Oliveira
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Analysis of the Skewness and Kurtosis for the Product of Two Normally Distributed Variables, José António Seijas-Macias
Structural Equation Modelling with missing data - application to PISA 12 data, Conceição Leal
Multinomial regression models to estimate the risk of diabetes and hypertension in Pima Indian Women, José António Pereira
Forecast time series in presence of structural breaks: a proposal, M. Rosário Ramos
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16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break and Poster Session
16:30 – 17:00 Keynote Speaker: James Boseman (Room: 6.3); Title: Measuring the Shape of Boundary Districts Using the Convexity Ratio
19:30 – Conference Dinner at the Puralã Hotel
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Day 2: November 10th , 2018 (Saturday)
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08:30 – 09:00 Registration Desk
09:00 – 09:30 Keynote Speaker: Viktor Witkovský (Room: 6.1 ); Title: Development of tools for numerical inversion of
the characteristic functions and the exact distributions of multivariate test statistics
09:30 – 10:00 Coffee Break and Poster Session
10:00 – 11:30
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Organized Session S1; Room: 6.1
Chair: Manuela Neves
Title: Statistical Applications in Environmental Science
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Extreme value theory in the analysis of environmental events, M. Ivette Gomes
Application of Statistics of Extremes to the Identification of Biodiversity Patterns, Luís Borda de Água
Statistical Ecology: a few examples, Russell Alpizar Jara
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10:00 - 11:30
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Organized Session S2; Room: 6.2
Chair: Nuno Brites
Title: Stochastic Differential Equations: Applications in Finance, Management and Medicine
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Stochastic differential equations in fisherie management with stepwise effort, Nuno Brites
Valuation of lookback options and turbo warrants on defaultable stocks, José Carlos Dias
Stochastic differential equations driven by mixed fractional Brownian motion and na application in finance, João Guerra
Markov Chain Model, via Stochastic Diferential Equations; models for HIV infection in individuals and populations,
Manuel Esquível
The application of clustering algorithms to the hand’s biometrics for personal recognition, Lúcia Sousa
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10:00 - 11:30
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Organized Session S6; Room: 6.3
Chair: Carla Santos, Cristina Dias, Ana Caballero
Title: Mathematics Education and Society – PART I
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Assessing higher education students’ ability to read and interpret statistical tables and graphs, Carla Santos
On the pedagogical practices in teaching and learning Mathematics presented in CNaPPES, Cristina Dias
How is the employment situation of mathematics teachers?, Ana Caballero
Reading and understanding of statistical graphs in secondary students of Badajoz, José Ruiz
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11:30 – 12:00 Keynote Speaker: Christos Kitsos (Room: 6.1); Title: Adopting Mathematical Aspects and Computational
Techniques to Optimal Experimental Design Theory
12:00 – 13:15 Lunch
13:15 – 15:00
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Organized Session S5; Room: 6.1
Chair: José Luís Cardoso, Maria das Neves Rebocho
Title: Special functions and applications
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Höder and Minkowski's inequalities related with q-integrals, José Luís Cardoso
Orthogonal polynomials via polynomial mappings and some applications, Márcio N. de Jesus
Explicit relations between cumulants and moments, Patrícia Antunes
Product formulas, generalized convolutions and integral transforms, Rúben Sousa
On Laguerre-Hahn orthogonal polynomials on the real line, Maria das Neves Rebocho
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13:15 - 15:00
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Organized Session S4; Room: 6.2
Chair: M. Filomena Teodoro, Marina A.P. Andrade
Title: Computational Mathematics and Statistics and its Applications
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On the distribution of linear combinations of chi-square random variables, Carlos A. Coelho
Inferences on multivariate normal covariance matrices based on synthetic data, Ricardo Moura
Water meters inaccuracies registrations: A first approach of a portuguese case study, Marina Andrade
Three-dimensional velocity field for blood flow using the power-law viscosity function, Fernando Carapau
Students performance and individual profile, a generalized linear models approach, M. Filomena Teodoro
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13:15 - 15:00
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Organized Session S6; Room: 6.3
Chair: Carla Santos, Cristina Dias, Ana Caballero
Title: Mathematics Education and Society – PART II
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Interpretation and communication of statistical data in primary education, Luis Maya Jaramillo
Application of SLP methodology in a factory of aluminium Doors and medium density fiber plates aided by multicriteria
decision analysis , Maria Varadinov
Income, consumption and saving of Portuguese households in numbers, João Romacho
The use of computers in Mathematics classes of secondary education, Adelaide Proença
Teaching mathematical concepts using a videogame prototype, Ana Caballero
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15:00 – 15:15 Closing Ceremony (Room: 6.1)/ (Prize SILABO/Book for the two student's with the best presentations)
15:15 - City Tour (Discovering Urban Art)