16th May 2025
Welcome to the web page of the one-day workshop
organized by the Florence Center for Data Science
to celebrate Bianca De Stavola‘s Emerit Professorship.
The meeting will be characterized by presentations, informal discussions and exchange of ideas among participants,
on hot topics and new challenges in Data Science, Statistics & Causal inference.
Venue
Room 327 (Aula Magna) 3rd floor
Plesso Didattico Morgagni
Viale Morgagni 44 – Florence
Morning timetable (provisional)
9:30-10:15 Keynote 1: Alan Agresti
10:15-10:20 Welcome from the Rector Alessandra Petrucci
10:20-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-12:45Session 1
10:50-11:10 Christiana Kartsonaki: Some extensions to the path formula
11:15-11:35 Luigi Palla: A multilevel approach to investigate the relationship between socio-demographic factors and energy intake by time of day in the Italian over-50 population
11:40-12:00 Veronica Vinciotti: Causal generalized linear models via Pearson risk invariance
12:05-12:25 Marco Doretti: Identifying natural effects with two ordered mediators: a proposal for binary data
12:30-12:45 Open discussions
10:50-11:10 Christiana Kartsonaki: Some extensions to the path formula
11:15-11:35 Luigi Palla: A multilevel approach to investigate the relationship between socio-demographic factors and energy intake by time of day in the Italian over-50 population
11:40-12:00 Veronica Vinciotti: Causal generalized linear models via Pearson risk invariance
12:05-12:25 Marco Doretti: Identifying natural effects with two ordered mediators: a proposal for binary data
12:30-12:45 Open discussions
12:45-14:00 Light lunch
Afternoon timetable (provisional)
14:00-14:45Keynote 2: Rhian Daniel
14:45-15:15Coffee break
15:15-16:30Session 2
15:15-15:25 Delia Boccia: Why we need good social epidemiology
15:25-16:15 Costanza Pizzi, Franco Merletti, Lorenzo Richiardi, Rodolfo Saracci & Daniela Zugna: Bianca De Stavola: epidemiology in the Florence Summer School and in Turin
16:20-16:30 Alessandra Giovagnoli: Contributions of Italian women statisticians to the British culture of the eighties: the case of Imperial College
15:15-15:25 Delia Boccia: Why we need good social epidemiology
15:25-16:15 Costanza Pizzi, Franco Merletti, Lorenzo Richiardi, Rodolfo Saracci & Daniela Zugna: Bianca De Stavola: epidemiology in the Florence Summer School and in Turin
16:20-16:30 Alessandra Giovagnoli: Contributions of Italian women statisticians to the British culture of the eighties: the case of Imperial College
16:30-17:00Keynote 3: Bianca De Stavola
17:00:18:30Poster session & aperitivo
18:30Arrivederci!
Scientific and organizing committee
Anna Gottard
Alberto Cassese
Daniele Castellana
Agnese Panzera
Veronica Vinciotti
Organizing secretariat
Marta Mascalchi
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